Antenatal Screening Midwife

NHS; Halifax; On-site; CAD 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Join the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Team at Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust as an Antenatal Screening Midwife. This role emphasizes woman-centred care, counselling families, and supporting screening processes. Applicants must be motivated with solid communication and leadership skills, ready to work alongside a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife with significant antenatal experience.
• Willing to obtain clinical qualification in antenatal screening.
• Evidence of recent continuous professional development.

Responsibilities

• Manage screen positive results and provide clinical advice.
• Support women and families through the decision-making process.
• Participate in audit and education of staff.

Skills

Communication

Counselling

Leadership

Team Building

Education

BSc Midwifery studies or equivalent

Counselling qualification

Professional Midwifery Advocate

Job description

Go back Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Antenatal Screening Midwife

The closing date is 30 June 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and enthusiastic Midwife to join the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Team at Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust. As part of our team, you will play a key role in delivering woman-centred care, offering counselling to women following screen-positive results, and supporting families through the decision-making process. The post holder will work alongside and support the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Coordinator and other members of the multidiciplinary team to ensure the provision, development and continuing effectiveness of the programmes offered to women and their families; incorporating expert clinical practice, consultation and education.

The ideal candidate will be:

• Motivated, flexible, and solution-focused.
• An excellent communicator who can build strong working relationships with colleagues both within the Trust and externally.

Our friendly team includes:

• Failsafe Officers
• Close links with community midwifery teams, the ultrasonography department, and the antenatal clinic/day units.
• Screening services provided across 2 hospital sites.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will support the screening co-ordinator to:

Manage screen positive results across the national screening pathways.

Counsel women and their families in the event of a high risk or antenatal screen positive result.

Provide the provision of clinical advice and support for women and their families participating in the screening programmes.

Collect and collate matched cohort screening data for quarterly and annual data returns.

Participate in audit, education of staff and guideline development.

About us

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Job responsibilities

Clinical Duties

• Assist the Antenatal Screening Coordinator in meeting needs and standards within the primary and secondary settings
• Assist the Antenatal Screening Coordinator with all positive results received from the laboratory for the antenatal screening programmes and make arrangements to inform, counsel, support and appropriately liaise with other agencies and provide care and care pathways throughout the womans pregnancy until the postnatal period
• Provide direct clinical advice and support in order to meet the needs of pregnant women
• Support women and their families who opt for to terminate a pregnancy for a fetal anomaly
• Assist the Antenatal Screening Coordinator with assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care
• Initiate and advise directly on referral to other specialties
• Ensure use of evidence-based practice using standards, audit and clinical risk assessment
• Advise and maintain effective communications with other professional stakeholders and voluntary organisations, aiming to provide comprehensive and seamless care across boundaries and to promote woman and public involvement/participation in healthcare
• Assist the Antenatal Screening Coordinator with developing specialist policies and protocols
• Contribute to change and/or developing the service
• Maintain a record of activities for regular analysis and evaluation, participating in audit to provide information on current trends and future needs
• Promote and maintain good working relationships within and outside the Trust, utilising opportunities to promote the specialist service
• Assist the Antenatal Screening Coordinator as an educator in antenatal screening for midwifery and medical colleagues and other disciplines within a range of settings
• Assist the Antenatal Screening Coordinator with the provision of mandatory training for midwives in all antenatal and newborn screening programmes

Work closely with obstetricians, medical staff, midwives, laboratory staff and primary care professionals to promote and develop evidence-based quality antenatal screening services

• Promote and disseminate up to date evidence based practice.
• Participate in audit in Antenatal and Newborn Screening Programmes and assist the Antenatal Screening Coordinator with dissemination of findings.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

• Registered Midwife
• Willing to obtain professional or clinical qualification in antenatal screening
• BSc Midwifery studies or equivalent
• Professional Midwifery Advocate
• Introduction to Management
• Counselling qualification

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

• Significant antenatal experience as Band 6
• Competent in all aspects of Midwifery practice
• Evidence of recent continuous professional development
• Up to date knowledge in clinical governance
• Evidence of knowledge and understanding of midwifery supervision
• Evidence of domestic abuse awareness and safeguarding children training
• Knowledge of the AN & newborn screening programme Evidence that shows commitment to normal midwifery.
• Evidence that shows commitment to promotion of breast-feeding and support of breast-feeding mothers
• Research and audit skills
• Ability to write reports
• Working knowledge and experience of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.
• Knowledge of public health/midwifery issues
• Guideline and information leaflet writing
• Working knowledge / experience of multi-disciplinary working
• Motivational interviewing training
• Leadership training
• Baby Friendly Infant feeding training or equivalent
• Experience of recruitment/selection
• Budgetary management skills
• Knowledge of audit and research
• Awareness of Government documents / reports / frameworks that impact on provision of Maternity Services
• general understanding of payment by results and maternity pathways
• Counselling and bereavement skills
• Appraisal training and experience

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Skills in negotiation and advocacy
• Demonstrable team building / leadership skills
• Ability to use IT to input and access patient details and data
• Leadership ability
• Have an awareness of the Trust's vision and value
• Car owner/driver or suitable alternative transport to enable you to undertake the job (it is unlikely that public transport will meet this requirement). Reasonable adjustments can be considered in accordance to the Equality Act

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.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum pro rata