Failsafe Officer

The Failsafe Officer participates in the running of the specialist administration of Antenatal & Newborn Screening Services in accordance with Department, Trust and National standards.

In this role you will support the day-to-day management of the screening programme, data quality assurance of the screening process by ensuring that robust failsafe systems are maintained to support the team and wider maternity service safely care for our patients.

You will support the team by collating data necessary for submission of the key performance indicators (KPI's) to the national screening committee.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

**We run the following hospitals**: The Lister Hospital, Stevenage, New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City, Hertford County, Hertford, Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

The failsafe officer will have overall responsibility to provide a effective and efficient t failsafe administration of all the ANND screening service.

They will work closely with the ANNB screening co-ordinator to facilitate failsafe mechanisms to identify, and prevent, missed screening opportunities, and maintain an audit for all the ANNB screening process and to participate in the organisation of meetings.

The ANNB failsafe officer will be expected to communicate with service users in relation to screening appointment or DNA.

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

**We run the following hospitals**:

- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

In the paragraphs above you have read an overview about the role we would like to offer and general information about main duties of the post holder.

Please see attached - job description which describes in full details the duties, responsibilities and reporting relationships of the advertising role.