Job summary
- Main area
- Maternity
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 318-25-T0210
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Gloucestershire Royal Hospital
- Town
- Gloucester
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 (pro rata if part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Digital Midwife - Band 6
NHS AfC: Band 6
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust! We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.
Job overview
This exciting post is for a digital midwife to be recruited to provide support, coordination, facilitation, evaluation and improvement across the digital maternity work streams.
This post is aimed at a registered midwife with data management and informatics skills, to support health and care services to improve the outcomes for pregnant women and address health inequalities.
The role will support the design and implementation of national digital programmes, oversee the tracking of progress against digital transformation plans and develop a networked approach to enable digital transformation.
The post holder will act as an autonomous, accountable practitioner working on their own initiative and in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team but visible to the staff and working alongside midwives in their day-to-day settings.
They will be an expert and will take responsibility for the day-to-day system administration of the maternity section of the electronic health records system in conjunction with the Lead Digital Midwife. This will include participation in its technological development, as required to fulfil the needs of the maternity service within hospital and community settings.
The post holder will support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, and a key element within the role will be ensuring quality data is submitted to inform trends and service improvement.
Main duties of the job
Support the design and implementation of national digital programmes, overseeing the tracking and progress against digital transformation plans, and developing a networked approach to enable digital transformation.
Act as an autonomous, accountable practitioner working on their own initiative and in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team but visible to the staff and working alongside midwives in their day-to-day settings.
Take responsibility for the day-to-day system administration of the maternity section of the electronic health records system in conjunction with the Lead Digital Midwife. This will include participation in its technological development, as required to fulfil the needs of the maternity service within hospital and community settings.
Support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, and a key element within the role will be ensuring quality data is submitted to inform trends and service improvement.
Working for our organisation
Our team is dynamic and constantly evolving to manage the demand and challenges of the service. We work closely together to ensure a friendly, positive and supportive environment whilst recognizing individual development needs.
The Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county. And with over 9,000 staff, we're one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a huge range of opportunities and benefits in a genuinely supportive working environment.
Maternity services at Gloucestershire hospitals offer a full range of services to support the women of Gloucestershire. We deliver around 6000 babies a year across our two free-standing birth units, an along-side birth unit, home births and an Obstetric unit, offering midwives the opportunity to work in a variety of settings in our community services, birth units and Delivery Suite.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To work independently but also alongside the Lead Digital Midwife at the trust.
The production of service improvement plans, and the implementation of new ways of working.
To keep all team members and staff informed of progress on any changes to the EPR system.
To contribute in facilitating service improvement and cultural changes across the department.
To educate and support all staff in the multidisciplinary team
To support the wider specialist midwives with where their documentation will be recorded and teach regarding audits and what is possible with the system.
Conduct regular data quality audits and work collaboratively with the lead Audit Midwife.
To check that manual and electronic delivery data, relating to the EPR system, are entered correctly by staff and to ensure that errors are reported and rectified immediately, but also to feedback directly to staff through 1:1 teaching to reduce the number of errors.
To work in conjunction with the Information Technology (IT) training lead to identify and target appropriate training.
To ensure that all maternity pathways for women delivered in GRHNHSFT are completed accurately and in a timely manner.
To ensure that all midwives are aware of how the antenatal/ postnatal community appointments are entered.
To ensure and correct any errors for wrong registration of baby’s or any baby linked to another mother in the same unit or other maternity units.
To address issues and be the link for queries raised by child health, the birth registrar or community midwives from other maternity services.
Escalate any concerns around knowledge and competence to ward managers and matrons.
Communication is a fundamental process to ensure continuity and high standards of service. It includes sharing ideas, information and feedback in order to empower staff and members of the interdisciplinary team.
The post holder must also assist to communicate with other staff within the trust, with external organisations and with the general public.
Demonstrate an understanding of research and development and how this influences midwifery practice
Emotional ability to cope under pressure working conditions highly demanding unpredictable workload, includes flexibility in working which may require you to change daily working and hours at short notice to meet the demands of the service. Maintaining mental health responding to unpredictable work patterns, interruptions and the need to meet deadlines.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Midwife with current licence to practice
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- In-depth knowledge of Maternity Services
Experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience in Change projects of Quality Improvement
- Experience of process mapping services to document and suggest clear pathways
- Experience supporting and training on IT system
- Experience in supporting clinical information systems e.g. TrakCare, PAS, Sunrise EPR, Badgernet, Viewpoint USS, and CTG Solution
- Experience in using Microsoft Office paxkages, MS Visio
- Production of Standard Operating Procedures (SOP's)
Knowledge, skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to deal with challenging people and situations in whilst remaining calm and polite.
- Ability to adopt an appropriate style and method of communication and deal effectively with people
- Highly motivated
Desirable criteria
- In depth knowledge of MS Office packages (Word, Excel, and Outlook, Teams etc.)
- Knowledge of key NHS performance requirements and how these are represented in relevant system
Qualities
Essential criteria
- Positive approach to all people
- Recognise people’s right to privacy and dignity, treating every person with respect
- Willingness to embrace integrated model and new ways of working
- Willingness to be flexible in approach and attitude
- Flexible, some out-of-hours work may be required at short notice
- Flexible working at peak periods, particularly at project go-live
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joanne Cowan
- Job title
- Head of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 5546
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