Digital Midwife

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Doncaster; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS Pension Scheme

Generous holiday entitlement

Health and wellbeing support

Discounts through external providers

Job summary

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Digital Midwife to lead clinical informatics within the Maternity EPR programme. The role focuses on designing, implementing, and optimising the maternity EPR, ensuring clinical workflows, safety and reporting needs are met.

You will educate staff on the Maternity Information System and develop a robust training plan to minimise errors.

Qualifications

• Proven clinical informatics experience in maternity or perinatal care.
• Ability to design, implement and optimise EPR configurations.
• Experience in training staff on clinical information systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership for maternity EPR integration.
• Lead safe implementation and adoption of the Maternity Information System.
• Develop and deliver a training plan for all staff using the EPR.
• Collaborate with CNIO and Digital Matron to enhance digital solutions.

Skills

Clinical informatics

Digital transformation

Training delivery

Stakeholder engagement

Tools

Maternity Information System

Job description

The Digital Midwife provides clinical leadership to ensure maternity services are fully represented within the Maternity Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme. Acting as the link between maternity teams and the digital programme, the postholder supports the design, implementation, optimisation, and adoption of the EPR, ensuring clinical workflows, documentation, safety requirements, and reporting needs are accurately reflected. The Digital Midwife will provide education and training for all staff on the Maternity Information System to minimise errors and incidents due to lack of staff knowledge. They will also be responsible to develop and deliver a robust training plan and provide direction, motivation and support to all users, both clinical and non-clinical. The post holder will be required to have system management experience and have expert knowledge of the maternity specific EPR. Working closely with clinical, operational, and digital colleagues, the role translates maternity requirements into effective digital solutions, supporting process redesign, system configuration, testing, training, and user engagement. The Digital Midwife champions digital transformation, promotes best practice, and identifies opportunities to improve patient safety, data quality, information sharing, and service efficiency. The Digital Midwife will be required to submit local, regional and national data sets to ensure compliance with statutory, regulatory and reporting.

Main duties of the job

• Work clinically with frontline teams in delivering direct patient care as a professional expert and role model in the use of clinical informatics.
• Support the delivery of safe, clinical technology to promote safe, efficient and timely patient care and the Trust's Digital Strategy.
• Collaborate and assist the CNIO and Digital Matron to deliver the best technology to support high quality and safe patient care.
• Identify and explore potential system developments which support staff in changing both clinical and administrative practices, underpinning the delivery of more effective and efficient patient care.
• Representing the views of healthcare professionals across the Trust when designing, testing, and implementing new systems.
• Act as a key resource to support change in the clinical environment; working alongside clinical colleagues, leading by example to understand challenges and motivate those who are reluctant to embrace digital technology and use strength-based approaches to enhance the benefits innovation and new skills will bring.

DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.

At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions. As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:

• o Extensive range of learning opportunities
• o NHS Pension Scheme
• o Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditions
• o Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
• o NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice scheme
• o Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.