3632 - Digital Support Midwife

Barnsley Hospital; Barnsley; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 44,000; Full time

Job summary

Barnsley Hospital is seeking a Digital Support Midwife to work with the Digital Midwife in Womens Services. You will support development and optimisation of maternity digital systems, helping colleagues use technology to improve patient care, and provide staff training and user support.

The role also involves monitoring data quality, audits and contributing to digital transformation projects to ensure systems are safe and effective for women, babies and families.

Qualifications

• Registered midwife with ongoing professional development.
• Teaching qualification or teaching experience preferred.
• Evidence of learning beyond registration should be shown.
• Experience using computing packages (ECDL/Office) and IT systems.
• Postgraduate management qualification or equivalent experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support development and optimisation of maternity digital systems across Women’s Services.
• Provide staff training and user support for maternity IT systems.
• Monitor data quality and assist with audits and reporting to improve service delivery.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Teaching/training

Data quality

Problem solving

Excel skills

Digital health

Audit skills

MS Office

Education

Midwifery registration

CPD evidence

Teaching qualification

Postgraduate management

ECDL/Office training

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Electronic patient records

Job description

You will work alongside the Digital Midwife to support the development and effective use of digital systems across Womens Services. This varied role includes supporting staff with maternity IT systems, delivering training, resolving user issues, monitoring data quality, undertaking audits and validating reports. You will act as a champion for digital improvement, helping to ensure systems are safe, effective and support high-quality care for women, babies and families.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and innovative midwife to join our maternity team as a Digital Support Midwife. Working alongside the Digital Midwife, you will support the development, implementation and ongoing optimisation of maternity digital systems, helping colleagues make the most of technology to improve patient care and service delivery. The role includes staff training, user support, data quality monitoring, audit activity and supporting digital transformation projects across Women's Services. This is an excellent opportunity for a midwife with a passion for digital healthcare, service improvement and improving outcomes for women and families.

About us

Barnsley is a place of real warmth and communityspirit. With a proud industrial past, the town offers affordable living, greattransport links, rich culture and many green spaces. Barnsley punches above itsweight and has recently seen economic growth, substantial regeneration anddigital ambition, whilst leading the way in healthcare innovation andemployability.

At Barnsley Hospital, we are a close-knit,ambitious team delivering outstanding care in the heart of South Yorkshire. Ouraim is to be the best place to work and we have been consistently rated by ourpeople as being amongst the very best Trusts in the country in areas such ascompassionate leadership, teamwork and supporting colleague wellbeing.

We offer a friendly working environment where youwill be recognised and valued for what you do, led with compassion andintegrity and have your career and wellbeing supported.

BarnsleyHospital NHS FT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity and fairtreatment to all applicants.

Forindividuals who require sponsorship under the skilled worker or health &care visa route please use the link on the right hand side of the advert tocheck your eligibility.

The cost ofthe DBS (criminal records check) for Band 6 and above roles will only be met bythe successful candidate(s) through salary deduction.

Please notewe reserve the right to close positions early

Job responsibilities

Job Description for Digital Support Midwife

Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role and responsibilities.

Supporting Documents

Please refer to the values-based recruitment guidance and associated documentation.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered Midwife Band 6
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Teaching qualification and / or recent teaching experience
• Evidence of learning beyond registration
• Undertaken basic qualifications in the use of computer packages such as the European Computer Driving License (ECDL) or Word, PowerPoint and excel software
• Post-graduate management qualification and / or equivalent level of knowledge gained through extensive experience

Experience

• Experience of working with healthcare administration IT systems
• Service development experience, delivering clinical quality improvements and successful service change
• Experience of working in all care settings (acute and primary care)
• Multidisciplinary working
• Experience of working with healthcare clinical IT systems
• Teaching and training
• Proven experience of working in an environment with a range of IT infrastructures and Microsoft technologies
• Good understanding of digital systems and advances to develop and manage electronic patient records

Values Based Questions

• Please describe in around 100 words: What motivates you to do a good job?, Please describe in around 100 words: Describe an example of where you have helped to improve the service of a department.

Knowledge and Awareness

• Up to date and evidence based knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
• In-depth understanding of the relevance of high quality data
• In-depth understanding of the Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS) and ability to apply the findings to improve service delivery

Skills and abilities

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, report writing and investigation skills
• Problem solving and analytical skills relating to the identification and assessment of evidence required to support decision making
• Advanced level skills in Microsoft Word and Excel
• Presenting and teaching skills
• Able to teach and assess in the clinical area

Values

• Please describe in around 100 words: What Equality & Diversity means to you and why they are important
• Please describe in around 100 words: What motivates you to do a good job?
• Please describe in around 100 words: Describe an example of where you have helped to improve the service of a department.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.