Are you a highly motivated, experienced midwife with a passion for screening, looking for a new challenge?
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced band 6 midwife to join our established Antenatal and Newborn Screening Team, supporting the screening coordinator to ensure a high quality antenatal and newborn screening service is provided for all women and their families.
To achieve this the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Team work in collaboration with local programme clinical leads to ensure NHS England screening programme standards are met and will monitor the quality and effectiveness of the screening services offered in the Trust.
- Manage screen positive results across the screening pathways.
- Counsel women and their families in the event of a high risk or antenatal screen positive result.
- Collect and collate matched cohort screening data for quarterly and annual data returns.
- Write and present screening programme reports at local, regional and national level.
- Participate in audit, education of staff and guideline development.
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
At WWL we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Janice Reid / Janet Barker Job title: Antenatal and Newborn Screening Coordinators Email address: janice.reid@wwl.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0300 707 5702
janet.barker@wwl.nhs.uk
