Job summary
The Antenatal Screening Team at Wexham Park Hospital is pleased to announce a brand-new job opportunity!
The Close Relative Marriage Midwife will proactively work with women to encourage a greater level of genetic testing/awareness /literacy among families where consanguineous related genetic disorders are present and improve access to genetic services for families thereby enable informed reproductive decision-making in the future.
This post is a fixed-term position for 2 years, for 15 hours per week spread over 2 days a week. The post can be carried out in combination with another midwife role within the hospital.
Main duties of the job
- The Close Relative Marriage Midwife will proactively work with women to encourage a greater level of genetic testing/awareness /literacy among families where consanguineous related genetic disorders are present and improve access to genetic services for families thereby enable informed reproductive decision-making.
- Ensure that provision of genetic information is available to all women practising close relative marriage with a family history of a genetic disorder to enable empowered and timely decision making.
- Ensure timely referrals to the genetic service to ensure women have opportunity to understand their risks and the options available to them in a pregnancy.
- Empower women to make informed choices in a culturally sensitive way.
- Initiate sensitive, appropriate conversations with families affected with autosomal recessive disorders linked to close relative marriage.
- Establish the role within the midwifery team and be a point of contact and/or referral for other midwives.
- Ensure a common understanding of genetic risk.
- Promote the use of standardised resources and materials.
- Support the development of joint ways of working across maternity, clinical genetics, health visiting and general practice.
- Ensure learning is shared with the maternity team.
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviors 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.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical, and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- This role aims to improve access to the provision of a culturally competent genetic service for consanguineous families at increased risk of autosomal recessive genetic disorders.
- Ensure provision of culturally competent genetic service for consanguineous families includes pre-pregnancy, antenatal and postnatal care for families that are practicing close relative marriage and are at increased risk of having a child with a genetic disorder due to a family history of a genetic condition(s).
- Improving understanding about genetic inheritance can empower affected families and reduce unexpected, affected births. The Close Relative Marriage Midwife with support from the Oxford genetics service and other health and care professionals will facilitate this improvement.
- The Close Relative Marriage Midwife will be part of the wider antenatal screening team at Wexham Park Hospital who are responsible for ensuring all women booked for maternity care and babies born at Wexham Park complete the national antenatal and newborn screening tests. The team support women through the fetal anomaly screening programme and have close links with the tertiary fetal medicine and genetic services at Oxford John Radcliffe Hospital.
- The Midwife will have access to a network of other Close Relative Marriage Midwives in other high need areas in England.
- The midwife will be a champion for families at increased risk of genetic disorders due to close relative marriage and a resource/point of contact for midwives, obstetricians and other members of the maternity team.
- The Midwife will develop an understanding of the issues and research evidence on the subject matter.
- Improve access to genetic services by improving local pathways for women at increased risk of genetic disorders due to close relative marriage.
- Improve outcomes for women at increased risk due to their family history.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- This role aims to improve access to the provision of a culturally competent genetic service for consanguineous families at increased risk of autosomal recessive genetic disorders.
- Ensure provision of culturally competent genetic service for consanguineous families includes pre-pregnancy, antenatal and postnatal care for families that are practicing close relative marriage and are at increased risk of having a child with a genetic disorder due to a family history of a genetic condition(s).
- Improving understanding about genetic inheritance can empower affected families and reduce unexpected, affected births. The Close Relative Marriage Midwife with support from the Oxford genetics service and other health and care professionals will facilitate this improvement.
- The Close Relative Marriage Midwife will be part of the wider antenatal screening team at Wexham Park Hospital who are responsible for ensuring all women booked for maternity care and babies born at Wexham Park complete the national antenatal and newborn screening tests. The team support women through the fetal anomaly screening programme and have close links with the tertiary fetal medicine and genetic services at Oxford John Radcliffe Hospital.
- The Midwife will have access to a network of other Close Relative Marriage Midwives in other high need areas in England.
- The midwife will be a champion for families at increased risk of genetic disorders due to close relative marriage and a resource/point of contact for midwives, obstetricians and other members of the maternity team.
- The Midwife will develop an understanding of the issues and research evidence on the subject matter.
- Improve access to genetic services by improving local pathways for women at increased risk of genetic disorders due to close relative marriage.
- Improve outcomes for women at increased risk due to their family history.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Training
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Project management/change management training
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
Special
Desirable
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Training
Essential
Experience
Essential
- Project management/change management training
Skills & Knowledge
Essential
Special
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
