Antenatal & Newborn Screening Midwife

The Antenatal and Newborn Screening Midwife is a rewarding and impactful role that supports pregnant people and their families throughout their screening journey, providing compassionate, evidence-based care and guidance during important and often emotional stages of pregnancy.

Working closely with the Antenatal and Newborn Screening Coordinator and multidisciplinary teams, the post holder helps deliver high-quality antenatal and newborn screening services that make a real difference to patient experience and outcomes.

This role offers the opportunity to develop specialist expertise, support staff learning and service improvement, and contribute to safe, effective, and family-centred maternity care within a supportive and collaborative environment.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Hospital Standards

Essential

• Treat everyone with respect, courtesy, and kindness
• Provide timely care and attention
• Listen, inform, and explain
• Team player
• Ability to work autonomously
• Enthusiastic
• Able to influence and communicate with Multiprofesional Team

Desirable

• Able to demonstrate an understanding of Public Health England and Government Policy and professional screening agenda

Qualifications and Knowledge

Essential

• Registered Midwife
• Degree or post graduate diploma
• Teaching and assessing qualification/ equivalent

Desirable

• Post Registration qualification/ experience in antenatal/ newborn screening

Further Training

Essential

• Up to date with National e-learning in relation to screening, Bereavement/ Breaking bad news

Desirable

• Counselling Course
• Genetic awareness

Experience

Essential

• Post registration experience, experience as Band 6 or above
• Implementation of change
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable

• Worked within a screening environment
• Worked within a fetal medicine setting

Contractual requirements

Essential

• Work flexibly to meet the needs of the service

Desirable

• Experience of managing and developing colleagues

Specific Requirements

Essential

• Able to perform the duties of the post with reasonable aids and adaptations

About the employer

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.