Digital Midwife

This post is aimed at a registered midwife with data management and informatics skills, to support health and care services to improve the outcomes for pregnant women and address health inequalities.

This exciting post is for a digital midwife to be recruited to provide leadership, coordination, facilitation, evaluation and improvement across the digital maternity work streams.

The role will support the design and implementation of national digital programmes, oversee the tracking of progress against digital transformation plans and develop a networked approach to enable digital transformation.

The post holder will act as an autonomous, accountable practitioner working on their own initiative and in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team but visible to the staff and working alongside midwives in their day-to-day settings.

They will be an expert and will take responsibility for the day-to-day system administration of the maternity section of the electronic health records system in conjunction with the Lead Digital Midwife. This will include participation in its technological development, as required to fulfil the needs of the maternity service within hospital and community settings.

The post holder will support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, and a key element within the role will be ensuring quality data is submitted to inform trends and service improvement.

Support the design and implementation of national digital programmes, overseeing the tracking and progress against digital transformation plans, and developing a networked approach to enable digital transformation.

Act as an autonomous, accountable practitioner working on their own initiative and in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team but visible to the staff and working alongside midwives in their day-to-day settings.

Take responsibility for the day-to-day system administration of the maternity section of the electronic health records system in conjunction with the Lead Digital Midwife. This will include participation in its technological development, as required to fulfil the needs of the maternity service within hospital and community settings.

Support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, and a key element within the role will be ensuring quality data is submitted to inform trends and service improvement.

Our team is dynamic and constantly evolving to manage the demand and challenges of the service. We work closely together to ensure a friendly, positive and supportive environment whilst recognizing individual development needs.

The Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county. And with over 8,000 staff, we're one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a huge range of opportunities and benefits in a genuinely supportive working environment.

Maternity services at Gloucestershire hospitals offer a full range of services to support the women of Gloucestershire. We deliver around 6000 babies a year across our two free-standing birth units, an along-side birth unit, home births and an Obstetric unit, offering midwives the opportunity to work in a variety of settings in our community services, birth units and Delivery Suite.

To work independently but also alongside the Lead Digital Midwife at the trust.

The production of service improvement plans, and the implementation of new ways of working.

To keep all team members and staff informed of progress on any changes to the EPR system.

To contribute in facilitating service improvement and cultural changes across the department.

To educate and support all staff in the multidisciplinary team

To support the wider specialist midwives with where their documentation will be recorded and teach regarding audits and what is possible with the system.

Conduct regular data quality audits and work collaboratively with the lead Audit Midwife.

To check that manual and electronic delivery data, relating to the EPR system, are entered correctly by staff and to ensure that errors are reported and rectified immediately, but also to feedback directly to staff through 1:1 teaching to reduce the number of errors.

To work in conjunction with the Information Technology (IT) training lead to identify and target appropriate training.

To ensure that all maternity pathways for women delivered in GRHNHSFT are completed accurately and in a timely manner.

To ensure that all midwives are aware of how the antenatal/ postnatal community appointments are entered.

To ensure and correct any errors for wrong registration of baby’s or any baby linked to another mother in the same unit or other maternity units.

To address issues and be the link for queries raised by child health, the birth registrar or community midwives from other maternity services.

Escalate any concerns around knowledge and competence to ward managers and matrons.

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