Antenatal and Newborn Screening Failsafe Officer

Job overview

**PLEASE NOTE: This role is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship**

Antenatal and Newborn Screening Failsafe Officer

• hours per week

Fixed term for 12 months

Salary: £25,760 - £27,476 per annum

Closing Date: Wednesday 4th November 2026

Interview Date: TBC

**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **

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The Antenatal and Newborn Screening Failsafe Officer will provide cover for the Failsafe Sonography Officer during periods of absence.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.

Main duties of the job

• The Antenatal and Newborn (ANNB) failsafe officer supports the antenatal and newborn screening co-ordinator 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 and Newborn Infant Physical Examination and Newborn Bloodspot screening. 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. The ANNB failsafe officer will also maintain and evolve mechanisms to collect cohort data for the key performance indicators (KPI) and antenatal standards data and the National Screening Committee Annual Report for Antenatal and Newborn Screening. Assist in the collation of information and the production of Public Health England submissions.
• The 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Clinical support role for the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Service.
• Support the screening co-ordinators to develop, maintain and monitor screening database systems to support the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Programme.
• Escalates any missed screening to the screening co-ordinator as a priority.
• Ensure that all antenatal screening data is compliant with the National Key Performance indicators.
• Assists in the collation of information and the production of the Annual Screening Report, Quality Assurance failsafe visits.
• Is able to identify and escalate problems that may affect the quality of the data and subsequent reports.
• Inputs accurate and timely data into Cerner and NIPE S4N.
• Under the director of the screening co-ordinator, prepare prior to relevant meetings/seminars for midwives and other professionals involved in the screening programmes. May also attend meetings, take and distribute minutes.
• Undertake general clerical duties, such as photocopying and filing for the screening team.
• Undertake annual appraisal with line managers.
• To ensure that a daily audit of all screening data is performed and to escalate any issues to the appropriate screening leads when women have not been screened- Issues with newborn screening should be escalated to Newborn Screening Co-ordinator.

For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.