Employer: The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Hillingdon Hospital
Town: Uxbridge
Salary: £51,883 - £58,544 per annum/incl HCAS
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 04/04/2025 23:59
Digital Midwife
NHS AfC: Band 7
The Trust only accepts applications made through this site, please register when you click APPLY at the end of this advertisement. The Trust is able to offer hospital accommodation, pension scheme, on-site nursery (through third party provider), together with salary sacrifice schemes (including child care vouchers, ride to work) and a range of national and local staff discounts (subject to availability).
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Job overview
Band 7 Digital Midwife
37.5 Hours
An exciting opportunity to work as a Digital Midwife at The Hillingdon Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has arisen. You will lead on all aspects of the use and development of the maternity information systems, support the use of digital technology within the Maternity Department and be responsible for ensuring that clinical practice, supported by digital technology, meets professional standards. This will be done through the provision of clinical expertise, professional direction and effective leadership.
If you are passionate about working to support midwifery services and helping to shape sustainable quality improvements, we would love to hear from you. This is an excellent opportunity for a talented self-motivated midwife to join our friendly maternity team.
Duties will include the day to day management of the electronic maternity records system, the production of statistics for both local and regional dashboards, staff training, close working with staff to ensure that they are supported with inputting data and working collaboratively with both the local and regional multi-disciplinary teams and the external systems providers. Your role will include supporting the process of monthly reports of KPI and cross checking of data to ensure accuracy. You will be responsible for monitoring the quality of data within the maternity electronic records and identifying areas for improvement, leading on the implementation of improvement plans.
Main duties of the job
As part of the Maternity team, you will have responsibility for all aspects of the use and development of the maternity information systems. You will co-ordinate and provide IT education, training and have overall responsibility for ensuring the accuracy of data within the service. You will work closely with staff to ensure that they are supported with inputting data correctly. Your role will include supporting the process of monthly reports of KPI, the maternity dashboard and cross checking of data to ensure accuracy.
You will work with members of the multidisciplinary team within the hospital and community venues, including midwifery staff, medical staff, coding, contracts, business informatics (BI) and IT. You will deliver information based on current evidence based research.
Working for our organisation
The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute Hospital in the London Borough of Hillingdon and offers a wide range of services including accident and emergency, inpatient care, day surgery, outpatient clinics and maternity services. The Trust’s services at Mount Vernon Hospital include routine day surgery, delivered at a modern treatment centre, a minor injuries unit and outpatient clinics.
The safety and well-being of our patients and of our staff is paramount and we are making urgent improvements to address this – particularly in infection prevention and control. We are making progress and going forward by working in partnership with local GPs, charities,
community services, academic partners, our local authority, neighbouring hospitals and the wider North West London Integrated care system, and ensuring that we listen and work in partnership with our local population. We are absolutely focused on ensuring that our hospitals
provide high quality, safe and compassionate care, while driving forward the building of the new Hillingdon Hospital.
We have over 3,500 members of staff that are proud to care for nearly half a million people, with a vision to be an outstanding provider of healthcare through leading health and academic partnerships, transforming services, to provide the best care where needed.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for a full list of role requirements and main responsibilities.
Person specification
Criteria
* Registered Midwife
* First level degree in related healthcare discipline or substantial experiential equivalence
* Substantial post registration experience in all areas of midwifery practice
* Experience of working with healthcare clinical IT systems
* Postgraduate qualification in Digital health, health informatics or related field
Once a sufficient number of applications have been received the vacancy may be closed prior to the published closing down date. All contracts are issued under Agenda for Change Terms & Conditions of employment and all posts are subject to appropriate job matching or evaluation process, where indicated. Applications are welcome from all sections of the community to ensure our workforce is representative of the population. Please note that all candidates at risk in London and going through the NHS London Redeployment scheme are to be given priority as part of the recruitment process where their application meets the essential criteria for the role.
Please note: If you do not meet the requirements for the role or have specific registration where required then your application will be automatically rejected.
If you do not hear from within 2 weeks of the closing date please assume you are unsuccessful.
The Hillingdon Hospital will use the information provided primarily for the purposes of managing your employment within the Trust.
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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.
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