Saint Mary's Hospital Managed Clinical Service is the largest maternity service in the country providing care for women across Manchester, its surrounding areas and the North West. Saint Mary's Hospital is a well-known Centre of excellence across three sites, all with a vibrant and lively working atmosphere. We currently have an exciting opportunity for a antenatal & Newborn screening co ordinating Midwife predominantly based at our North Manchester site to work within our team to deliver the antenatal and newborn screening Programme. You will also be expected to flexibly work across all 3 sites within the MCS as required.

You will find working with us extremely rewarding as part of a team dedicated to providing the best possible care and experience to all our women and families. You'll be joining our Trust at an exciting time as we grow and improve our services, and you will be able to make a positive contribution to its future success.

To support your career, we offer a wide range of development and educational initiatives that will assist your career here at MFT. We are strongly committed to investing in all our employees, to ensure you have a robust Personal Professional Development Plan to enhance your prospects and opportunities.

Main duties of the job

The Antenatal and Newborn Screening Coordinating Midwife works in collaboration with local programme clinical leads to ensure national screening programme standards are met. This includes the monitoring of the quality and effectiveness of the screening services offered in the Trust.As the lead for the Antenatal and Newborn screening programmes, the post holder is responsible for:

The management of screen positive results across the screening pathways.

• Counselling of women and their families in the event of a high chance/screen positive result.
• Collecting and collating matched cohort screening data for quarterly and annual data returns.
• Writing and presenting screening programme reports at local, regional and national level.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of �2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity MattersMFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Midwife
• Graduate level
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Qualified Mentor
• Sign off mentor

Knowledge

Essential

• Knowledge of the public health agenda
• Knowledge of multi-agency working together in child protection
• Ability to utilise audit and research findings in order to improve women's care
• Knowledge of Antenatal Screening and conditions
• Advanced knowledge of Prenatal Screening Services

Desirable

• Experience of clinical audit
• Experience of research activities

Training and Experience

Essential

• Experienced midwife
• Evidence of recent CPD
• Evidence of multidisciplinary/multi agency working

Desirable

• Management Experience

Employer details

Employer name

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Saint Mary's North Manchester

Delauneys Road

Manchester

M8 5RB

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