Antenatal Screening Midwife

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Midwife to join the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Team at Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust.  As part of our team, you will play a key role in delivering woman-centred care, offering counselling to women following screen-positive results, and supporting families through the decision-making process.   The post holder will work alongside and support the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Coordinator and other members of the multidiciplinary team to ensure the provision, development and continuing effectiveness of the programmes offered to women and their families; incorporating expert clinical practice, consultation and education.

The ideal candidate will be:

• Motivated, flexible, and solution-focused.
• An excellent communicator who can build strong working relationships with colleagues both within the Trust and externally.

Our friendly team includes:

• 2 Antenatal & Newborn Screening Coordinators
• Failsafe Officers
• Close links with community midwifery teams, the ultrasonography department, and the antenatal clinic/day units.
• Screening services provided across 2 hospital sites.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will support the screening co-ordinator to:

Manage screen positive results across the national screening pathways.

Counsel women and their families in the event of a high risk or antenatal screen positive result.

Provide the provision of clinical advice and support for women and their families participating in the screening programmes.

Collect and collate matched cohort screening data for quarterly and annual data returns.

Participate in audit, education of staff and guideline development.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Duties

• Assist the Antenatal Screening Coordinator in meeting needs and standards within the primary and secondary settings

• Assist the Antenatal Screening Coordinator with all positive results received from the laboratory for the antenatal screening programmes and make arrangements to inform, counsel, support and appropriately liaise with other agencies and provide care and care pathways throughout the woman’s pregnancy until the postnatal period

• Provide direct clinical advice and support in order to meet the needs of pregnant women

• Support women and their families who opt for to terminate a pregnancy for a fetal anomaly

• Assist the Antenatal Screening Coordinator with assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care

• Initiate and advise directly on referral to other specialties

• Ensure use of evidence-based practice using standards, audit and clinical risk assessment

• Advise and maintain effective communications with other professional stakeholders and voluntary organisations, aiming to provide comprehensive and seamless care across boundaries and to promote woman and public involvement/participation in healthcare

• Assist the Antenatal Screening Coordinator with developing specialist policies and protocols

• Contribute to change and/or developing the service

• Maintain a record of activities for regular analysis and evaluation, participating in audit to provide information on current trends and future needs

• Promote and maintain good working relationships within and outside the Trust, utilising opportunities to promote the specialist service

• Assist the Antenatal Screening Coordinator as an educator in antenatal screening for midwifery and medical colleagues and other disciplines within a range of settings

• Assist the Antenatal Screening Coordinator with the provision of mandatory training for midwives in all antenatal and newborn screening programmes

• Promote and disseminate up to date evidence based practice.

• Participate in audit in Antenatal and Newborn Screening Programmes and assist the Antenatal Screening Coordinator with dissemination of findings.

• Work closely with obstetricians, medical staff, midwives, laboratory staff and primary care professionals to promote and develop evidence-based quality antenatal screening services