Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Midwife to join the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Team based at Frimley Park Hospital.
The successful applicant will join the team of Specialist Midwives to ensure that the National Antenatal and Newborn Screening programmes are delivered safely and effectively within the service at Frimley Health.
We work closely with NHS England’s regional screening and immunisation teams and also support the maternal and neonatal immunisation service within our organisation.
In addition, this role requires the individual to work with the wider multidisciplinary team including specialist fetal medicine consultants, sexual health services, gastroenterology services and tertiary Fetal Medicine and genetic Services.
Excellent communication and organisational skills are essential as this is a very busy but unique role that will allow the successful applicant to develop skills in the management of service that affects all areas of maternity care.
Computer Literacy skills including familiarity with Microsoft Office packages including Word, Publisher, Excel and PowerPoint are essential for this role.
Main duties of the job
Duties
The main duties of this role are to support the Antenatal Screening Coordinator and specialist Midwives to deliver the NHSE antenatal and Newborn screening programmes. The team deal with a range of issues including:
- Supporting women to discuss and make choices during pregnancy when there are additional concerns.
- Counselling women and couples about high chance screening results
- Coordinating care for women with positive infectious disease screening results, HIV , Syphilis and hepatitis.
- Support parents and coordinate multidisciplinary care for babies with known fetal abnormalities and babies with suspected chromosome abnormalities including supporting parents to make choices to continue or terminate the pregnancy.
- Capture and maintain extensive data which is required to track our population and monitor performance in line with national standards.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
- Counselling certificate Mentorship
Experience
Essential criteria
- significant recent UK midwifery experience
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of antenatal screening programmes
- Teaching, education & training within the midwifery arena
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of Antenatal diagnostic testing
Desirable criteria
- Experience of assisting with antenatal diagnostic tests
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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