Job summary
Employer heading
Digital Matron Maternity
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for a senior midwife to join our Digital Nursing, Midwifery and AHP (NMAHP) team at Bolton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The Digital Matron role with specifically focus on the requirements of the maternity services to scope, develop and implement an Electronic Patient Record (EPR) that maximises staff efficiency, improves the care and experience of the service users and their families. Throughout the implementation and ongoing optimisation of the EPR for maternity the Digital Matron will utilise the data, feedback and documentation to continue to improve maternity services through quality improvement enabled by digital tools.
The Digital Matron will have an overall responsibility for ensuring the accuracy and completeness of data quality within the service and work closely with the staff to ensure that national data quality standards are met.
The Digital Matron will work closely with the Chief X Information Officer (CXIO), maternity department and the wider Clinical Informatics team leading on projects to digitally transform practice and care experiences.
Main duties of the job
The Digital Matron role is essential to the safe and effective deployment of the Maternity EPR, a visible presence within the maternity department and informatics are crucial to ensure engagement, progress and readiness for the project. You will have great communication skills and utilise a variety of channels to ensure that the maternity team are involved and updated from the start.
You will have significant experience across maternity areas to support and advocate for the varied roles within midwifery and the requirements and impact on the staff and service users. You will be able to manage expectations within the department and provide regular updates on the development, engagement, readiness and implementation of maternity digital technology.
The digital landscape is changing at pace within the NHS, you will have a passion for evidence based practice, keeping up to date with new technologies and digital tools that can continually provide better quality of care and experience for our staff and service users.
Working for our organisation
Here at Bolton our patients are at the heart of everything we do. Our digital objectives as set out in our Digital Strategy 2022-2025 consider the national, regional and Bolton priorities, they are Digital Integration, Digital Care, Digital Workforce and Digital Infrastructure and Estate. As a Trust we ensure our patients receive the highest quality of care and are guided by our Trust Values. We are proud that our Trust has been rated as Good by the Quality Care Commission (CQC). This is in recognition of the patient experience and quality of care that our staff provide to patients. It is also supported by our Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Framework for Professional Practice.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Qualifications and Education
Essential criteria
· Relevant professional, qualification and current NMC/HCPC registration.
· Relevant Master’s Degree or evidence of working at Masters level
· Teaching qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
· Qualified in speciality project management qualification (e.g. Prince 2)
· Completion of Leadership Program me (e.g. ILM)
· Digital Clinical Safety Officer Training
Leadership
Essential criteria
· Significant experience at a band 7 senior clinical role
· Experience of successfully managing the implementation of change
· Evidence of professional leadership, leading to innovation in practice
· Experience of partnership and interagency working
· Evidence of collaboration skills
· Evidence of implementing a service development/change
Desirable criteria
· Development and delivery of training/ education
· Experience of change management
Clinical Practice
Essential criteria
· Evidence of broad clinical experience
· Evidence of experience implementing information system(s) in acute hospital environments
· Evidence of using informatics an enabler to improve clinical care
· Excellent communication skills written and verbal
· Report writing complex and sensitive information
· Negotiating and influencing skills
· Ability to make calm rational decisions in the face of adversity
· Evidence of risk management activities
· Strong analytical skills and ability to consider the wider picture
· Skills for facilitate change.
· Able to demonstrate contribution to clinical governance
Desirable criteria
· Evidence of experience implementing information system(s) in community health services environments
Management
Essential criteria
· Evidence of experience implementing information system(s) in community health services environments
· Experience in policy development and cross Trust working
· Line management experience
Desirable criteria
· Experience in leading multiple projects.
Education
Essential criteria
· Evidence of continuous professional development
· Evidence of delivering Trust wide teaching programmes
· Presentation skills for a range of audiences
· Experience of developing. delivering/ monitoring and evaluating training programmes with clinical and non-clinical staff
Desirable criteria
· Experience as speaker at large events
Research & Audit
· Experience in clinical audit/benchmarking
· Willingness to partake in related research projects
· Familiarity working with data and making it accessible for clinical teams
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Relevant professiona, qualification and current NMC/HCPC registration
- Relevant Master’s Degree or evidence of working at Masters level
- Teaching qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Qualified in speciality project management qualification (e.g. Prince 2)
- Completion of Leadership Program me (e.g. ILM)
- Digital Clinical Safety Officer Training
Leadership
Essential criteria
- Significant experience at a band 7 senior clinical role
- Experience of successfully managing the implementation of change
- Evidence of professional leadership, leading to innocation in practice
- Experience of partnership and interagency working
- Evidence of collaboration skills
- Evidence of implementing a service development/change
Clinical Practice
Essential criteria
- Evidence of broad clinical experience
- Evidence of experience implementing information system(s) in acute hospital environments
- Evidence of using informatics an enabler to improve clinical care
- Excellent communication skills written and verbal
- eport writing complex and sensitive information
- Negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to make calm rational decisions in the face of adversity
- Evidence of risk management activities
- Strong analytical skills and ability to consider the wider picture
- Skills for facilitate change.
- Able to demonstrate contribution to clinical governance
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Zoe Fitzsimmons & Janet Cotton
- Job title
- CXIO & Director of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01204 390390
- Additional information
Zoe Fitzsimmons - [email protected] 01204 390390 ext 141045
Janet Cotton - [email protected] 01204 390390
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