Job overview

18.75 hours (Job Share)

Base: Main base St Peter’s Hospital, with requirement to work at any other Trust site as necessary.

An opportunity has arisen to recruit a Antenatal and Newborn (ANNB) Screening & Immunisation Support Midwife to work within Ashford and St Peter's Hospitals maternity services.

The post holder will:
Support the maternity screening leads in the implementation and co-ordination of all key objectives in relation to the Antenatal and Newborn Screening (ANNB) Programmes for Ashford and St Peters Hospitals NHS Trust

Will provide information, support and counselling service for women considering or undergoing prenatal tests.

Support leads in the delivery of local screening policies and embed best practice for screening programmes and services.

Ensure the delivery of high quality, safe, effective and equitable screening programmes that meet the outcomes set out in the Public Health Agenda.
Support continuous quality improvement through the implementation of standards, ongoing data collection and reporting systems and through a programme of monitoring, evaluation and feedback.

Adhere to the quality assurance structures for screening programmes that will ensure compliance with national standards.

For further details please contact: 
Joanna Doumouchtsi, Consultant Midwife for Public Health - [email protected]

Main duties of the job

- Assist in the monitoring and evaluation of standards of care in conjunction with other colleagues 
as part of the multiprofessional team, ensuring best practice
- Involvement in monitoring Trust antenatal and newborn screening pathways meet national 
standards and that new or updated standards are implemented as they are released by the NSC.
- Work closely with the ANNB screening & Immunisation failsafe officer to confirm that 
appropriate failsafe systems are in place within all antenatal and newborn screening pathways.
- Ensure all screen positive antenatal screening results are identified and to act on them 
appropriately and escalate if necessary
- Provide information, support and counseling to women, where required, to enable them to 
make informed decisions regarding further testing and/or the management of their pregnancy.
To assist in the day to day running of the screening service.
- Work closely with the screening team to ensure “failsafe” of the programmes is maintained.
- Counsel women regarding their choices following a high risk result, referring women for further 
testing, dealing with results and referrals for termination of pregnancy.
- Support and actively participate in the delivery of the maternity immunisation programme

Working for our organisation

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• On-site Nurseries
• On-site staff cafes
• On-site parking
• Support in career development
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

For more information about a career at ASPH please visit:
www.asph-careers.org