Antenatal Newborn Screening Failsafe Officer

Job description

Job responsibilities

he Antenatal and Newborn (ANNB) failsafe officer supports the antenatal and newborn screening coordinators in the collation and entry of data for the antenatal and newborn screening programmes, Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy, Downs syndrome screening and Fetal Anomaly Screening, Haemoglobinopathy screening, Newborn Infant Physical examination, and Newborn Bloodspot Screening.

The failsafe officer will identify screening coverage of the eligible population and ensure safety of the screening programmes. They will work closely with the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Midwives to facilitate failsafe mechanisms to identify and also prevent missed screening opportunities and maintain an audit trail for all of the above mentioned screening programmes.

The ANNB failsafe officer will also maintain and evolve mechanisms to collect cohort data for the key performance indicators (KPI), and for the National Screening Committee Annual Report for Antenatal and Newborn Screening, including the Congenital Anomalies Register (CAR) and the Health Protection Agency (HPA) Quarterly data.

The ANNB failsafe officer will be expected to communicate with other professionals involved in the screening process.

The post holder will provide support to the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Midwives for the Antenatal and Newborn Screening programmes, working within strict departmental and national procedures with responsibility for receiving, maintaining and providing manual and electronic data containing sensitive and confidential screening information.

Establishing and effectively managing screening databases for Antenatal and Newborn Screening ensuring that working procedures adhere to Data protection requirements of the IT systems used within the Trust.

Collating and inputting patient clinical and non-clinical data and screening outcome details onto the screening database, focusing on constant process improvement.

Manage NIPE systems and failsafe Newborn Blood spot system. Be part of the national NIPE user group, and partake in testing on upgrades of system.

Providing accurate and timely statistical screening data to the screening co-ordinators and other colleagues as required.

Report screening incidents via DATIX

Liaising with external stakeholders where appropriate including the SIT/SQAS teams.

Support the wider team with initiation of Business Continuity plans when appropriate.

The post holder will be based across two sites Worthing & Chichester and Haywards Heath and Brighton and will need to be able to work flexibly according to needs of the service.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

• Good general education, at least up to GSCE level or equivalent.
• Must have pass english GCSE or equivalent
• Must have maths GCSE or equivalent
• Experience of administrative duties in NHS
• Use of office information systems, working with confidential information
• Able to use excel

Desirable

• IT experience on Careflow, CRIS, Badgernet
• Experience of the Newborn Bloodspot and Newborn Infant Physical Examination Failsafe systems and gathering information for reports from these systems

Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion

Essential

• Evidence of having championed diversity in previous roles
• Evidence of having undertaken own development to improve understanding of equalities issues

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust (279)

Address

Worthing, St Richards

Worthing, Chichester

PO19 6SE

Employer's website

https://www.uhsussex.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)