Antenatal and Newborn Screening Failsafe Officer

3 weeks ago

Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Band 4

**Main area**
- Family Health Maternity

**Grade**
- Band 4

**Contract**
- Permanent

**Hours**
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week

**Job ref**
- 164-5778092

**Site**
- Cross site City Hospital and Queens Medical Centre

**Town**
- Nottingham

**Salary**
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum

**Salary period**
- Yearly

**Closing**
- 11/12/2023 23:59

**Interview date**
- 18/12/2023

Job overview

Line management of staff will be required in this role completing annual appraisals and staff one to ones. Also management of sickness reviews and any HR issues with the support of the Screening Managers. Report screening incidents via datix and will be responsible for the completion of screening incident assessment forms where appropriate and support the management of the incident dashboard.

Main duties of the job

For full details please refer to Job Description and Person Specification which explain the main duties of this job.

Working for our organisation

With over 17,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Antenatal and Newborn (ANNB) failsafe officer supports the antenatal and newborn screening managers in the collation and entry of data for the antenatal and newborn screening programmes, Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy, Down’s syndrome screening and Fetal Anomaly Screening, Haemoglobinopathy screening, Newborn Infant Physical examination, and Newborn Bloodspot Screening, also including relevant vaccination programmes. The failsafe officer will identify screening coverage of the eligible population and ensure safety of the screening programmes. She/ he will work closely with the Antenatal and newborn screening manager to facilitate failsafe mechanisms to identify and also prevent missed screening opportunities and maintain an audit trail for all of the above mentioned screening programmes. The ANNB failsafe officer will also maintain and evolve mechanisms to collect cohort data for the key performance indicators (KPI), and for the National Screening Committee Annual Report for Antenatal and Newborn Screening, including the Congenital Anomalies Register (CAR) and the Health Protection Agency (HPA) Quarterly data

The ANNB failsafe officer will be expected to communicate with other professionals involved in the screening process, to participate in the organisation of meetings, take minutes for the meetings, preparation of teaching materials and dissemination of performance management letters.

The post holder will provide support to the Antenatal and newborn screening managers for the Antenatal and Newborn Screening programmes, working within strict departmental and national procedures with responsibility for receiving, maintaining and providing manual and electronic data containing sensitive and confidential screening information.

Person specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria
- Minimum GCSE English Language and Maths or equivalent standard to a grade C or above
- NVQ 4 in health or administration or equivalent experience
- Committed to further learning and personal development.

Desirable criteria
- Other Business Administration qualifications
- Familiar with NHS computer systems e.g. PAS, Careflow, Badgernet
- IT Qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
- Previous experience in Healthcare setting
- Experience of using word processing and data analysis software packages e.g. Microsoft Excel, Access and Excel
- Experience of performing staff appraisals
- Good understanding of incident reporting and investigation
- Ability to analyse data to identify omissions and develop an action plan
- Able to demonstrate and understanding of confidentiality including information governance and data protection.

Desirable criteria
- Understanding / experience of working in Maternity Services
- Demonstrate an understanding of antenatal and newborn screening programmes
- Experience of contacting patients regarding appointments or blood tests.

Communication and relationship skills

Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal skills required
- Experience of liaising with a range internal and external stakeholders
- Ability to escalate any issues to Antenatal and newborn screening Managers
- Ability to work on own initiative as well as demonstrating the ability to work as part of a team

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential criteria
- Experience of audit or data collection
- Able to resolve problems within own sphere of work
- Able to interpret cli

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