Digital Nurse Fellow

North Bristol NHS Trust; Bristol; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a Digital Nurse Fellow to enhance the use of electronic patient records and digital clinical systems. This role involves collaborating with nursing teams to promote confidence in digital practices, delivering training, and acting as a change agent within the clinical environment. The ideal candidate will possess a strong nursing background, current NMC registration, and a passion for digital innovation in healthcare. Join a team committed to providing exceptional patient care while fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Qualifications

• Current NMC registration is essential for this role.
• Considerable experience using NBT clinical systems is required.

Responsibilities

• Act as an expert resource for digital clinical systems.
• Deliver training and support to clinical staff on digital technology.
• Support the implementation of digital patient pathways.

Skills

NMC registration

Experience with clinical systems

Change management

Teaching skills

Data protection knowledge

Education

Nursing qualification

Teaching qualification

Management course

Job description

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Job Overview

The Digital Nurse Fellow (DNF) role will work with colleagues to promote their confidence and competence in using the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) and other digital clinical systems, supporting the development of new digitally enabled practice and workflows.

The DNF will work closely with the Chief Nursing Information Officer, the digital matron for adoption and transformation, clinical digital specialist team and the nursing/midwifery teams within the clinical environment, to understand current ways of working with the goal of supporting the adoption and standardisation of EPR across the Trust.

The DNF will work collaboratively with the Senior Sisters / Charge Nurses to understand learning needs on their wards and agree training and support plans to build confidence and competence to use the trust clinical systems.

The DNF will work in partnership with other Practice Development Nurses, Digital Link Nurses / Midwives and Digital Change Makers to ensure that new digitally enabled practice is embedded in clinical teams and that changes are sustained, and that new staff are supported to maintain agreed practice and standards.

As an expert practitioner, the DNF will use their experience and knowledge to identify innovative or enhanced ways of working with clinical digital systems, or opportunities to improve safety and quality of care, and report these back to the Digital Nursing team and CNIO for consideration, testing and implementation

Main duties of the job

Duties

The digital nurse fellow will act as a change agent, providing at the able support and guidance to our clinical staff. Duties include:

• Act as an expert resource and role-model for the digital clinical systems in use at North Bristol Trust.
• Work in partnership with colleagues from IM&T
• Meet regularly with assigned ward leaders to update on progress, agree support required and address difficulties that arise.
• Deliver teaching and training on digital systems, using a variety of teaching techniques
• Record and reporting training activity completed
• Provide professional leadership including motivation of staff regarding the use of digital technology
• Identifying and escalating issues or risks arising from digital systems or related clinical practice.
• Support the development and implement of digital patient pathways as appropriate
• Support the Clinical teams in the new ways of working ensuring they are able to adopt the new solutions. This will include taking on-board feedback and working with the Clinical Digital specialists to enable system change as required.
• Understand change management techniques and methodologies and be able to adapt the approach to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Understand and act as a champion for the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), particularly around password security and patient confidentiality.
  
  

More Details Are Available On The Job Description

Working for our organisation

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialities. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.

North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

See attached job description for more details.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

• Current NMC registration
• Considerable experience of using NBT clinical systems
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Teaching qualification
• Management course
  
  

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