About this role
Job summary
- 1. 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.
Main duties of the job
To act as the digital midwife within the maternity department, leading and managing the electronic patient record and its utilisaiton.
To provide coordination and oversight of the Electronic Patient Record within maternity services ensuring effective data collection and extraction. Ensure that all requirements for national reporting are achieved through use of the system.
Use data to obtain and analyse data regarding to clinical effectiveness, and 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, to include system development, training for maternity staff members and floor walking to support staff in practice.
About us
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.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Job description
Job responsibilities
The digital midwife will lead on all activities regarding the electronic patient record systems within maternity, to include initial and on-going system development, implementation and training. The digital midwife will be responsible for working with the multiprofessional team to improve the accuracy and completeness of data quality and work to ensure that national data quality standards are met, including the Maternity Services Data Set. The digitial midwife will be responsible for analyzing data, completing exception reports and providing data for internal use. The digitial midwife will also be responsible for extracting data for national reporting and ensuring accuracy of the data.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Evidence of post-registration education
- Mentorship qualification (or equivalent)
Desirable
- Practising registered midwife with demonstrable experience
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Previous experience of BadgerNet and Electronic Patient Records
- Evidence of good organisational and planning skills
- Able to problem solve
Desirable
- Previous experience of Electronic Patient Records
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Surrey
Egerton Road
Guildford
GU2 7XX
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)