Antenatal Screening Midwife

Job summary

Band 6 secondment Antenatal & Newborn Screening Midwife

**THIS VACANCY IS ONLY OPEN TO INTERNAL APPLICANTS FROM WORCESTERSHIRE ACUTE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST**

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Antenatal Screening Team at Worcestershire Royal Hospital. We need a Band 6 Midwife to work 37.5 hours per week for a 6 month secondment role. The post holder will support the Screening Team in the coordination of the key objectives in relation to the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Programme. Its an exciting opportunity to develop new skills and learning in a specialised area of midwifery.

Main duties of the job

You will help to develop the Antenatal and Newborn Screening service within the hospital and community supported by the Antenatal Screening Coordinator. Ensuring that the programmes of Antenatal and Newborn screening offered are in line with national service standards and specifications and to assist with the implementation of the screening programmes at a local Trust level with the implementation of screening programmes at a local level.

You will assist in formulating new antenatal screening pathways/guidelines within the Trust in line with national guidance. Assist in the provision of specialist care for women and families who have received abnormal screening results or scan findings. Participate in education and training of maternity staff on antenatal and newborn screening. Work alongside and support fetal medicine consultants in designated scan clinics.

About us

Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Our objectives are simple:

• Best services for local people
• Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
• Best use of resources
• Best people

Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

Charles Hastings Way

Worcester

Worcestershire

WR5 1DD

Employer's website

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

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