Antenatal and Newborn Screening Midwife Co-ordinator inYork inYork PUBLISHED 23 AUG 2024

Band 7 (maternity cover)

• Do you have a specific interest in providing compassionate and individualised care in regards to screening?
• Do you have awareness and/or experience of the NHS England antenatal and newborn hearing screening requirements as well as the UK National Screening Committee and Public Health England best practice recommendations?
  
  

We deliver care across a large geographical footprint, encompassing some of the UK's most varied and beautiful areas. You would join a dedicated small team of coordinators, contributing to leadership, education, monitoring and service governance alongside the compassionate and sensitive support our women and families need.

Whilst challenging, this role allows the midwife to deliver exceptional care to our population whilst ensuring the strategic and operational Public Health England and UK National Screening committee requirements are maintained. It is therefore a satisfying mix of clinical and non-clinical work that will use your advanced skills in communication, prioritisation and collaboration.

You will need to hold Registered Midwife status plus PIN with the NMC


If you are currently employed by the Trust and you wish to apply for this role on a secondment basis, please seek permission from your current line manager before applying for the post



Examples Include And Are Not Limited To


Contributes to implementation and development of antenatal and new-born screening programmes consistent with new national standards, guidance and research.

Supports women, families and staff involved in the delivery of the screening pathways, actively involved in audit and governance the service.

Contributes to and creates reports for national programme data collection, responding to trends, clusters, identified training needs and adapting the service in line with national recommendations.

Provides information and choices to women and families with compassion, respect, dignity and with a dedication of informed choice, using exemplar communication skills, mindful of barriers, challenges and the emotive nature of the service.

Our benefits

We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:

• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)
• A generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully. If you would like to discuss a potential relocation package, please speak to the recruiting department/manager.
• A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave
• Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
• NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
• An extensive range of learning and development opportunities
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers
  
  

For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Gillian Locking Job title: Outpatient Maternity Matron Email address:

Telephone calls and visits are warmly encouraged, please email in the first instance