Antenatal and Newborn Screening Failsafe Officer

3 weeks ago

Norwich, United Kingdom Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Failsafe is a mechanism which ensures that the screening service is accountable for its actions and to ensure that processes are in place so that patients do not come to any harm. It is also there to ensure that if something does go wrong within the system, processes are in place to identify what is going wrong and to ensure there is a safe outcome.

The Failsafe Officer is responsible for ensuring the raising of risks relating to all patients eligible for antenatal and newborn screening.

To ensure accurate data collection and provision of information to support the smooth running of the maternity service, antenatal and newborn screening programmes, with particular focus on maintaining failsafe systems to enable retrieval of data to demonstrate compliance with UK National Screening Committee requirements.

To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUH’s ‘PRIDE’ values of People focused, Respect, Dedication, Integrity and Excellence.

**Essential Responsibilities**:
Maintain effective databases for Antenatal and Newborn Screening ensuring that working procedures relating to Data protection are adhered too; provide statistical information to the Antenatal & Newborn Screening Coordinator on a regular and ad hoc basis.

Use own initiative to identify deviations from expected pathways, taking actions to prevent screening incidents where possible and escalating issues as necessary.

Monitor the Newborn screening process to ensure all babies are screened within required timeframe and escalate non-compliance.

Input and maintain audit trails to demonstrate compliance with required Failsafe measures.

Responsible for the designing, improvement, maintenance and monitoring of failsafe administration procedures.

In conjunction with the Antenatal & Newborn Screening Specialist Coordinator:
Continually audit the performance of the programme against national and local standards; design, create and compile specialist reports using Microsoft Excel.

Assist in the preparation and presentation of information for the purpose of reporting, discussing and presenting antenatal and newborn screening data to internal/external parties.

Actively participate in multi-disciplinary team meetings and Programme Board meetings as required.

**Additional Responsibilities**:
Where necessary to liaise with other departments within the Trust to ascertain and collate necessary information relating to required screening data.

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

- Flexible working hours
- Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
- Multi Faith prayer room
- Discounted gym memberships
- Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
- Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
- Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
- Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
- On-site Nursery
- On-site cafes offering staff discounts
- Support in career development
- Flexible staff bank
- Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics

Please view the attached job description for full details of the role and use your supporting statement to confirm how you meet the essential and desirable criteria on the job specification.

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