Job overview
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:
• Ensuring maternity adoption and engagement in the use of technology
• Driving continuous clinical process improvement in the Nursing and Midwifery divisions focused on patient outcomes and efficiency.
• 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
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main 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 criteria
* Registered MIdwife
* First level degree in related healthcare
* Evidence of Masters degree or equivalent experience
* Teaching qualification
* CSO Trained or willingness to undertake
Desirable criteria
* Digital Health Leadership Course
* Post Grad management qualification and/or equivalent experience
* Project management qualification/experinece
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
* 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 criteria
* Knowledge of clinical systems (CMIS, K2 etc)
* Experience in change management, service development
Previous Experience and Skills
Essential criteria
* 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 criteria
* 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
Our values
We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.
Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.
Committed to our Community
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce .
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net
We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.
We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.