37.5 hours per week
Permanent
Salary- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Closing Date- 13th March 2025
Interview Date- 1st April 2025
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
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Job Overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic midwife who can demonstrate an understanding of how digital technology can support safer care. This post continues the national drive within the maternity transformation programme to provide leadership, coordination, facilitation, evaluation, and improvement across the digital maternity work streams by:
1. Providing visible, accessible leadership to support the management of change and acting as an effective role model, mentor, and coach promoting excellence through practice.
2. Supporting the implementation of IT projects in the unit to meet the needs of service users, service leads, and the wider national agenda.
3. Having ownership and responsibility for the coordination and collation of data with colleagues in Perinatal Services, IT department, and external agencies.
4. Working with clinical informatics, business managers, and finance to assess the benefits of initiatives and local technology projects and their implementation.
5. Identifying and leading significant service and operational transformation, including standardisation of maternity systems and processes, service transition, and benefits realisation.
6. Ensuring clinical practice is supported effectively by digital technology.
Vision and Values
Here at George Eliot, our vision to ‘excel at patient care’ takes centre stage. An ever-evolving clinically-led acute service provider, we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe, and responsive health services delivered by inspiring and compassionate staff who share our corporate values:
1. Effective open communication
2. Excellence and safety in everything we do
3. Challenge but support
4. Expect respect and dignity
5. Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits
On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden, and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Qualifications
With a senior role within the organisation holding specialist knowledge and skills in Information Technology (IT), the Digital Midwife will represent maternity on behalf of George Eliot Hospital. The post holder will have the ability to establish good team relationships and collaboration within George Eliot Hospital with internal colleagues and local maternity and Neonatal systems.
We are looking for a highly motivated individual with knowledge of maternity digital systems to support the ongoing digital platform within our maternity and wider perinatal services and lead on service changes including the introduction of any new EPR systems in Perinatal services. The maternity digital lead will support the digital agenda alongside our team of senior leaders, midwives, obstetricians, IT, and Digital teams to support the digital agenda within the Better Births and three-year delivery plan.
The digital midwife will work in collaboration with the senior Perinatal leadership team, clinical leads, and Directorate management to design, plan, and deliver the digital strategy, facilitating and implementing change within Maternity Services including ensuring compliance with appropriate national standards. The successful candidate will be an ambassador for the Trust being able to manage a challenge, supporting all levels of staff during the implementation of new systems and the maintenance of existing ones.
The post holder will also ensure that the current maternity IT system functionality is adhered to and maintained. The successful candidates will need to have excellent IT knowledge and skill base of both midwifery clinical practice and the digital agenda.
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the job description and personal specification attached.
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