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Lead Digital Midwife and Deputy CNIO

Employer
East and North Herts NHS Trust
Location
Stevenage
Salary
£50,952 to £57,349 per annum
Closing date
6 Aug 2024
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Profession
Nurse, Midwife
Grade
Band 8A
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
We are recruiting for a Lead Digital Midwife who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The Lead Digital Midwife supporting the Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO) Chief Information Officer (CIO) and Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) leads the development and adoption of Digital to support midwifery practice.

The Lead Digital Midwife will take particular responsibility for:o Ensuring maternity adoption and engagement in the use of technologyo Driving continuous clinical process improvement in the Nursing and Midwifery divisions focused on patient outcomes and efficiency.o Developing clinical Information that supports and enhances nursing practice and organisational efficiency.

Our Values are Include, Respect, and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

The Lead Digital Midwife (DM) is a key leadership role central to the success of the Trust's Digital and Maternity Strategies.

You will act as a translator and main point of liaison for midwifery staff and will act as deputy for the CNIO . As a transformational leader with exemplary clinical credibility, the Lead DM will provide expert clinical advice and guidance to support the Trust's developments in Digital Technology. They will hold a recognised CSO qualification or be willing to undertake.

Be the Lead Midwife for digital with ownership and responsibility for the co-ordination and collation of data with colleagues in the maternity, digital department and external agencies where required.

Take responsibility for ensuring midwifery adoption and engagement in the use of technology

To ensure that the maternity IT system functionality is adhered to support practitioners professional standards.

Work towards the ambitions of Better Births to evaluate the maternity IT system and its abilities to meet the recommendations

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:
  • The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
  • New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
  • Hertford County, Hertford
  • Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for more detailed information on the role of the Lead Digital Midwife.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential

  • Registered MIdwife
  • First level degree in related healthcare
  • Evidence of Masters degree or equivalent experience
  • Teaching qualification
  • CSO Trained or willingness to undertake


Desirable

  • Digital Health Leadership Course
  • Post Grad management qualification and/or equivalent experience
  • Project management qualification/experinece


Knowledge and experience

Essential

  • In-depth understanding of national digital agenda relating to Maternity
  • In depth understanding of relevance of high quality date
  • Up to date and evidence based knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
  • In depth understanding of MSDS, CNST, MTP
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills relating to IT Systems
  • Experience in all care settings
  • Experience in MDT working and experience at 8a Level


Desirable

  • Knowledge of clinical systems (CMIS, K2 etc)
  • Experience in change management, service development


Previous Experience and Skills

Essential

  • Advanced level skills in MS word and Excel
  • Demonstrable skill sin teaching and assessing in all clinical areas
  • Excellent written communication skills, report writing and investigation skills
  • Evidence of leadership skills


Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes

Essential

  • Demonstrates behaviours consistent with Trust Values
  • Ability to work across large range of specialties
  • Demonstrable ability to work professionally under pressure, and deadlines
  • Demonstrable ability to concentrate and maintain high degree of accuracy


Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust (Across trust sites)

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

361-6305177-A

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