The Antenatal and Newborn (ANNB) failsafe officer 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 officer identifies screening coverage of the eligible population and ensures safety of the screening programmes. She/he works closely with the antenatal and newborn screening co‑ordinator to facilitate failsafe mechanisms to identify and prevent missed screening opportunities and maintain an audit trail for all of the above screening programmes. The ANNB failsafe officer also maintains and evolves 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 and assists in the collation of information and the production of Public Health England submissions.
The failsafe officer will be expected to communicate with other professionals involved in the screening process, participate in the organisation of meetings, take minutes for the meetings and prepare teaching materials and disseminate performance management letters.
Main Responsibilities
- Clinical support role for the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Service
- Support the screening co‑ordinators to develop, maintain and monitor screening database systems to support the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Programme
- Escalate any missed screening to the screening co‑ordinator as a priority
- Ensure that all antenatal screening data is compliant with the National Key Performance indicators
- Assist in the collation of information and the production of the Annual Screening Report and Quality Assurance failsafe visits
- Identify and escalate problems that may affect the quality of the data and subsequent reports
- Input accurate and timely data into Cerner and NIPE S4N
- Under the direction of the screening co‑ordinator, prepare for relevant meetings/seminars for midwives and other professionals involved in the screening programmes and may also attend meetings, take and distribute minutes
- Undertake general clerical duties, such as photocopying and filing for the screening team
- Undertake annual appraisal with line managers
- Ensure that a daily audit of all screening data is performed and escalates any issues to the appropriate screening leads when women have not been screened; issues with newborn screening should be escalated to the Newborn Screening Co‑ordinator
- Work flexible and undertake any other duties commensurate with the grade as required
- Have a polite and professional manner when communicating with other professionals and outside agencies
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