Obstetric Ultrasound Failsafe Administrator

Job summary

The Obstetric Ultrasound Failsafe Administrator supports the antenatal and newborn screening co-ordinator in the collation and entry of data for the antenatal and newborn screening programmes, infectious diseases in pregnancy, Down's syndrome screening and Fetal Anomaly Screening, Haemoglobinopathy screening and Newborn Infant Physical Examination and Newborn Bloodspot screening. The Failsafe Admin will identify screening coverage of the eligible population and ensure safety of the screening programmes. He/she will work closely with the antenatal and newborn screening co-ordinator 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 Radiology Failsafe Admin will also maintain and evolve mechanisms to collect cohort data for the key performance indicators (KPI) and antenatal standards data and the National Screening Committee Annual Report for Antenatal and Newborn Screening. Assist in the collation of information and the production of Public Health England submissions.

The Failsafe Admin will be expected to communicate with other professionals involved in the screening process, to participate in the organisation of meetings, take minutes for the meetings, preparation of teaching materials and dissemination of performance management letters.

Main duties of the job

Main Responsibilities:

Provide general clerical support to specialist screening midwives and radiology staff, including making appointments, filing, telephone liaison, and referrals for maternity radiology screening.

• To input downs syndrome screening results into Cerner and ensure timely reporting of results to patients.
• To act as lead support for the establishment of the antenatal and newborn screening results failsafe system.
• To ensure that the failsafe system is maintained and to be responsible for ensuring that all women booked have a data entry and any missing data chased.
• Validate database with patient level data to ensure all women are offered Antenatal screening including: Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia; Fetal Anomaly & Infectious diseases, Newborn screening including: Newborn Blood Spot; Newborn & Infant Physical examination
• To ensure that a daily audit of all screening data is performed and to escalate any issues to the appropriate screening leads when women have not been screened- Issues with newborn screening should be escalated to Newborn Screening Co-ordinator).
• Contribute and collate data for the annual screening report to the antenatal and newborn screening program.
• Attendance at Antenatal screening meetings. Produce regular performance reports/minutes for the screening board.

About us

The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust's services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.

The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this - particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities,community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitalsprovide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while drive forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.

We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.