Main area: Maternity Grade 7, fixed term: 12 months (short term funding), part time: 22.5 hours per week. Job ref 197-RF8347.
Site: University Hospital Lewisham Town, London. Salary £49,387 – £56,515 per annum pro rata plus HCAS. Closing 28/06/2026 23:59.
Job overview
Are you looking to work in an award winning, well-supported, friendly, dynamic, culturally astute, inclusive environment that puts women/birthing people at the centre of a high standard of care?
The CQC report maintains our good rating, held since 2017, and now awards us as outstanding for leadership. This role offers an excellent opportunity to learn and develop new skills in antenatal & newborn (ANNB) screening pathways. You will be a passionate/enthusiastic midwife with significant experience, helping to coordinate the ANNB Screening programmes within Maternity on the Lewisham site.
You must have good knowledge of the national ANNB screening programmes and the passion to sustain change to meet local and national standards, ensuring birthing people and their families are at the centre of care.
You will liaise with a wide local and national multi‑agency team, including specialist consultants, sonographers, senior managers, laboratory staff, NHSE commissioners and QA to implement and embed robust systems and processes for ANNB screening care pathways.
You will be supported by the ANNB Screening Manager and work closely with the ANNB Screening Coordinator based at the Queen Elizabeth site.
Excellent organisational and IT skills are required.
Main duties of the job
- Ensure provision of recommended ANNB screening programmes to birthing people accessing maternity care at LGT at any point throughout pregnancy, birth and postnatally.
- Ensure failsafe systems are in place so that eligible birthing people/babies do not miss screening.
- Oversee and facilitate the provision of all recommended ANNB screening tests as specified within the National Screening Committee standards and care pathways for screen‑positive cases.
- Develop services and care pathways, in partnership with the MDT, for screening programmes that do not meet ANNB standards.
- Provide regular updates and training to the MDT regarding ANNB screening.
- Supervise and work closely with the deputy ANNB Screening Coordinator.
- Have line management responsibilities for members of the Screening Team, including annual appraisals, revalidation and sickness absence.
- Deliver mandatory & screening training to multi‑disciplinary groups.
- Report risks and incidents via the Trust incident reporting system, carry out investigations in line with local policy and NHSE standards, and ensure shared learning.
- Oversee the management and update of the antenatal screening failsafe database on the UHL site.
This post is not suitable for newly qualified midwives or international midwives who have not completed their OSCE.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. We focus on Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) and have staff networks and programmes to support all staff.
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development.
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability.
- Improving the experience of staff with disability.
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development.
- Making equalities mainstream.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide high‑quality women/birthing people centred maternity care to women/birthing people and their families working in collaboration with children’s and gynaecology services.
The post holder will be responsible for ensuring provision of all recommended antenatal and newborn screening programmes to all mothers/birthing people and newborn babies who access care from our maternity services at any point throughout their pregnancy, birth and postnatal episodes.
To ensure that there are failsafe systems in place to capture all women/birthing people and babies who are receiving care in a variety of different care settings.
Person specification
- Registered Midwife
- Teaching qualification or equivalent (ENB 997)
- Degree in health‑related subject
- Recognised risk management qualification
Work Experience
- Significant experience as a Band 7 or equivalent.
- Experience of conflict management.
- Experience of data collection and analysis.
- Experience of child protection issues.
- Experience of managing risk within a department.
- Proven track record of leadership.
- Evidence of clinical competence and regular clinical practice.
- Project management experience or change management.
- Experience of teaching/training staff.
- Knowledge of conducting risk.
- Experience of group and committee work.
We reserve the right to close the post before the stated closing date, please apply early. We do not contact applicants with the outcome of the shortlisting. If you have been shortlisted, you will receive an invite to an assessment day or interview.
As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce reflects the local communities which we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce.
Please note: Information provided during recruitment and pre‑employment checks must be accurate. Misrepresentation may be investigated as fraud and could lead to withdrawal from the process, professional sanctions, or criminal action.
Please note: that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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