Band 3 Antenatal and Newborn Screening Failsafe

6 months ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom University Hospitals Birmingham Full time

**Job summary**:
The Antenatal and Newborn (ANNB) failsafe officer supports the antenatal and newborn screening co-ordinators 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 co-ordinator 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.

2 x positions available - 1 x 12 month fixed term and 1 x permanent

**Main duties, tasks & skills required**:
The post holder will provide support to the antenatal and newborn screening co-ordinators 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.
- Establishing and effectively managing screening databases for Antenatal and Newborn Screening ensuring that working procedures adhere to the Data Protection requirements of the IT systems used within the Trust.
- Collating and inputting patient clinical and non-clinical data and screening outcome details on to the screening database.
- Providing accurate and timely statistical screening data to the screening co-ordinators and other colleagues as required.

The post holder will be based at BHH; however, will need to be able to work flexibly according to the needs of the service.

**About us**:
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

**Job description**:
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

**Person specification**:
**Qualifications**:
**Essential**:

- Good general education (e.g. GCSE English and Maths )
- Business Administrator level 2 or equivalent experience in clerical environment

**Desirable**:

- IT qualification

**Experience**:
**Essential**:

- Experience of working with a range of Microsoft office packages (e.g. Word, Excel, Access and Outlook)
- Experience in using spreadsheets and database
- Experience of using IT systems
- Experience of working in a busy office/customer care environment

**Desirable**:

- Experience of working in Healthcare

**Additional Criteria**:
**Essential**:

- Good communication/customer care skills both written and verbal demonstrating sympathy and compassion
- Standard keyboard/IT skills
- Good organisational skills and ability to multitask
- Excellent time management skills; with the ability to deliver work in agreed priorities and timescales
- Ability to deal professional with enquires from staff, service users and stakeholders
- Ability to problem solve
- Able to use judgement in situations requiring analysis
- Ability to pay attention to detail where there are predictable interruptions to the work pattern
- Ability to deal with stressful situations and sensitive issues
- Knowledge of Word, Excel, Access and Outlook
- Knowledge of producing and inputting to spreadsheets and databases.
- Work effectively and flexibly as part of a team to meet the needs of the service
- Ability to work under pressure and deal with stressful situations
- Confident in dealing with people at all levels
- Must be able to demonstr

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