Midwife

Job overview

A great opportunity for an 8b Senior Matron Clinical Nursing Informatics Lead post within the Corporate Nursing Team.

We are seeking a passionate, highly motivated, and dynamic health professional to undertake this role supporting various high profile workstreams important to our nursing, midwifery, and allied health professional workforce. Ensuring our practice and care is digitally enabled, safely enabling the best possible standards of care to our patients, their families, and carers.

The post holder is the senior lead for the Health Board/Trust for the digitalisation of the nursing record (nursing e-documentation). The post holder as a senior and experienced nurse will be accountable for decision making for the organisation leading the development of the digitalisation of nursing documentation and will work collaboratively across the Health Board/Trust and NHS Wales to improve patient care, experience and outcomes through the development of high quality information, systems and technologies, ‘Once for Wales’. The priority aim for this post is to lead and modernise health service delivery, promoting new ways of working through better access to information and knowledge for shared decision making through the development of the electronic nursing documentation across the Organisation, The post holder will represent the organisation in setting the strategic direction for NHS Wales with the national project team.

Main duties of the job

Be the Nursing Lead and expert for the Health Board/Trust for all issues related to electronic nursing documentation, demonstrating highly developed specialist nursing knowledge underpinned by academic theory and experience of health service management, including change management and resource management (including workforce, financial and service redesign).

Be an experienced professional Registered Nurse with extensive clinical knowledge and highly developed skills in analysis, requirements gathering and engagement. This will be acquired through academic study to master’s level degree or equivalent experience.

Work independently as the professional lead for the nursing documentation requirements and representing the interests of Nurses, multi-professional and partner agencies by acting as the strategic liaison between nursing and informatics professionals in the delivery of Nursing/IT related programmes both nationally and locally.

Be responsible for leading communication with end users and departments for information needs and requirements in the development of nursing documentation and wider electronic projects such as e- patient flow and e- prescribing at Health Board level. 

Working for our organisation

We believe staff are our best asset and we want you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board. 

As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.

You might be a nurse or doctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - we have a job for you.

There are also apprenticeships, work placements and volunteering roles available.

We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.

Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show that our commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.

If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery, with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Be accountable for informing the strategic direction and nursing leadership in the development, deployment and optimisation of digital and clinical information systems and wider transformational change.

Demonstrate inspirational leadership to engage with Health Board/Trust multidisciplinary teams and with external stakeholders collaborating to inform the project board. 

Be the strategic lead for the Director of Nursing and nursing workforce to ensure the delivery of key milestones and achieve delivery of the project within time scales set.

Give advice and direction across the organisation on the quality assurance and improvement processes and work with clinical team members to design and deliver safe and effective nursing e-documentation applications to support the delivery of high quality clinical care.

The post holder will propose and implement changes to the Nursing service provision and delivery, which will impact across the organisation.

Person specification

Qualification and/or Knowledge

Essential criteria

Registered Nurse/Midwife with Nursing& Midwifery Council Masters degree or equivalent qualification in health related subject

Experience

Essential criteria

Nursing management experience, including resource management Expertise and experience of applying NHS Wales Health & Care Standards into practice Effective leadeship skills, coaching and mentoring experience Experience and understanding of change management process High level of political awareness, capable of understanding the wider objectives of the organisation and its context within current assembly policy and strategic direction

Aptitude and Abiliites

Essential criteria

Excellent comunication skills and interpersonal skills when dealing with highly complex and sensitive information Confident and effective presentation skills from board to floor Good understanding of how to engage clinicians and patients in defining requirements and implementing solutions Sound judgment and confident with decision making involving highly complex facts or situations across the Health Board/Directorates portfolio Computer literate needing accuracy including Microsoft Office, Excel and Microsoft Project

Personal Attributes /Values

Essential criteria

Ability to plan projects from inception to delivery Excellent ability to write reports Influencing and negotiating skills at all levels of the NHS stakeholders across organisational boundaries Able to manage and successfully handle conflict

Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

Equality remains at the centre of the Health Boards policy-making, service delivery and employment practices. We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race, religion, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Welsh language skills are not necessary

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