Digital Midwife

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Job summary

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Digital Midwife to lead the development and utilisation of electronic documentation within the maternity service. You will manage BadgerNet, Oracle Millennium, NIPE and Genome Audit systems, optimise usage, and improve data quality. Training and auditing will drive clinical effectiveness and reporting.

You will work within the Maternity Clinical Governance team alongside another Digital Midwife, with flexibility for hybrid working.

Qualifications

• Experience with digital maternity records preferred.
• Strong data analysis skills.
• Ability to train staff on EPR systems.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the electronic patient record within maternity services.
• Coordinate and oversee the Electronic Patient Record data collection and extraction.
• Ensure that national reporting requirements are achieved via the system.
• Use data to analyse clinical effectiveness and publish data for internal/external use.
• Provide training and support to staff on EPR usage.
• Support the implementation and use of the Trust’s EPR within maternity.

Skills

Digital systems

BadgerNet

Data analysis

Data presentation

Staff training

Interdisciplinary teamwork

Tools

BadgerNet

Oracle Millennium

NIPE

Genome Audit

Job description

The maternity department at the Royal Surrey is highly successful; it is rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, has achieved Gold Accreditation under the Unicef Baby Friendly Initiative and has achieved all 10 safety actions as a part of NHS Resolution’s CNST scheme. The maternity department prides itself on the high quality care it provides to women and families; this is achieved by focusing on innovation, quality improvement and staff health and wellbeing.

The maternity department at the Royal Surrey is highly successful; it is rated ‘Outstanding’ by the Care Quality Commission, has achieved Gold Accreditation under the Unicef Baby Friendly Initiative and has achieved all 10 safety actions as a part of NHS Resolution’s CNST scheme. The maternity department prides itself on the high quality care it provides to women and families; this is achieved by focusing on innovation, quality improvement and staff health and wellbeing.

As the Digital Midwife, you will be responsible for leading the development of electronic documentation within the maternity service. These include BadgerNet, Oracle Millennium, NIPE and Genome Audit systems. This will include optimising their usage within the clinical setting, providing training, improving data quality and auditing to improve clinical effectiveness. You will be responsible for sharing the results of your work and implementing action plans to improve clinical care, data quality and usage of the electronic patient systems. You will be working as a part of the Maternity Clinical Governance team, and alongside another Digital Midwife.

As the Digital Midwife, you will be confident using digital systems, and, ideally, have experience using BadgerNet. You will be confident in data analysis, and presenting complex ideas to the multi-professional team. You will be offered the opportunity for flexible working.

• To act as the digital midwife within the maternity department, leading and managing the electronic patient record and its utilisation.
• To provide coordination and oversight of the Electronic Patient Record within maternity services ensuring effective data collection and extraction.
• To ensure that all requirements for national reporting are achieved through use of the system.
• To use data to obtain and analyse data regarding clinical effectiveness, and to ensure accuracy of data published for internal and external use.
• To provide training and support to all staff members on the use of the electronic patient record.
• To support the implementation and use of the Trust’s electronic patient record within maternity, including system development, training for maternity staff members and floor walking to support staff in practice.

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claire Worthington Job title: Head of Clinical Governance (W&C Division) Email address: [e-mail]

If you wish to discuss the post further, please contact Claire Worthington, Head of Clinical Governance (W&C Division). Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number 01483 571122 ext 2396