Job summary
As part of the on-going evolution of our digital program, we are seeking to appoint an experienced clinical Midwife to help facilitate adoption of our digital healthcare record in the Maternity department, within the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
This post will work with our Head of Nursing Informatics, Senior Divisional Nurse Informatics Leads, Divisional Midwifery Management and the Electronic Patient Record team, to support a our digital maternity solution across community and in-hospital maternity services.
They will provide greater visibility of the needs of the clinical services and promote enhanced communication between these services and the digital program. They will provide expert knowledge and understanding of clinical needs and how digital may evolve and develop to support our goal to be paper free at the point of care.
Candidates will be a registered Midwife with a substantial clinical background, a history of working in a senior departmental role and have significant experience of digital working. They will be an excellent communicator and will be expected to work in close collaboration with Midwifery, Nursing, Allied Healthcare, Clinical Support and digital technical teams, supporting their Senior Divisional Nurse Informatics Lead and the Head of Nursing Informatics. Once appointed, the successful candidate will be working with OUH System C BadgerNet Maternity systems and our Oracle Cerner Millennium EPR.
About us
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.
We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.
These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To lead the Midwife-led aspects of the BadgerNet Maternity solution and assure seamless working with the wider OUH digital solutions, particularly Oracle/Cerner Millennium.
Act as a role model for the appropriate creation and adoption of digital solutions throughout the organisation.
Lead digital adoption for Nursing, Midwifery and AHP teams at a Divisional level.
Lead and ensure organisational standards of digital documentation at a Divisional level in line with local requirements, in partnership with their informatics colleagues and the HNI.
Reach out to, and collaborate with, organisational clinical Digital projects which may have a direct impact on patient care, in association with the their informatics colleagues and the HNI.
Act as a Midwifery Digital Lead for relevant clinical/digital projects working in collaboration with digital and clinical teams.
To use clinical and organisational experience to benefit and enhance organisational systems utilising a similar ethos and workflow.
To lead on Divisional measures to ensure successful digital adoption.
To seek opportunities which may benefit from, or contribute toward, IT projects developing across the OUH Trust, aligning these with the core OUH digital ethos.
To be mindful of projects which may benefit from EPR functionality and work with these teams to provide meaningful outcomes beneficial to all.
To support and develop associated IT projects in order to raise the profile of the Trust on a national and international level, by working with CNIO and CCIO, to support publications and presentations.
Lead on optimising and integrating hardware and non-hardware application-based systems (handheld devices, tablet computers, iPads, web-based developments, paediatric and adult wristbands, barcode scanning and printers) to optimise clinical workflows.
Carry out data analysis to inform relevant Divisions on current digital status and for specific projects or accreditation requirements.
To collaborate, contribute and represent the OUH Trust at a regional and national level, providing meaningful representation and feedback on national initiatives.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To lead the Midwife-led aspects of the BadgerNet Maternity solution and assure seamless working with the wider OUH digital solutions, particularly Oracle/Cerner Millennium.
Act as a role model for the appropriate creation and adoption of digital solutions throughout the organisation.
Lead digital adoption for Nursing, Midwifery and AHP teams at a Divisional level.
Lead and ensure organisational standards of digital documentation at a Divisional level in line with local requirements, in partnership with their informatics colleagues and the HNI.
Reach out to, and collaborate with, organisational clinical Digital projects which may have a direct impact on patient care, in association with the their informatics colleagues and the HNI.
Act as a Midwifery Digital Lead for relevant clinical/digital projects working in collaboration with digital and clinical teams.
To use clinical and organisational experience to benefit and enhance organisational systems utilising a similar ethos and workflow.
To lead on Divisional measures to ensure successful digital adoption.
To seek opportunities which may benefit from, or contribute toward, IT projects developing across the OUH Trust, aligning these with the core OUH digital ethos.
To be mindful of projects which may benefit from EPR functionality and work with these teams to provide meaningful outcomes beneficial to all.
To support and develop associated IT projects in order to raise the profile of the Trust on a national and international level, by working with CNIO and CCIO, to support publications and presentations.
Lead on optimising and integrating hardware and non-hardware application-based systems (handheld devices, tablet computers, iPads, web-based developments, paediatric and adult wristbands, barcode scanning and printers) to optimise clinical workflows.
Carry out data analysis to inform relevant Divisions on current digital status and for specific projects or accreditation requirements.
To collaborate, contribute and represent the OUH Trust at a regional and national level, providing meaningful representation and feedback on national initiatives.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Registered Midwife with a current NMC registration and with relevant degree qualification
- Demonstrable leadership/management experience
- Robust in-depth understanding of healthcare IT systems and how they may be used in their specialist field
- Evidence of further education in healthcare informatics, such as short courses or post graduate certificates
- Masters level degree in either informatics, business analysis or process re-engineering, or relevant experience
Desirable
- Master's degree in risk, governance and patient safety or equivalent (or relevant experience)
Personal qualities
Essential
- Passionate about information as a tool to drive up clinical quality of care and support professional practice.
- Excellent communicator both orally and in writing
- Successful influencer and negotiator
- Confidence and self-motivation
- Credible in a multi-professional environment
- Resilient
- Energetic and motivated for the role.
Desirable
- Ability to write papers at board level with effective presentation skills
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant experience in clinical practice within Maternity
- Active involvement in at least one informatics intervention to improve care quality.
- Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of work in a clinical setting.
- Risk management: training and experience in risk management sufficient to understand potential risks from informatics solutions from a clinical perspective.
- Proven ability to engage effectively with a broad range of stakeholders and in a multi-professional environment.
Desirable
- Understanding of the local, regional and national commissioning environment and standards expected by commissioners.
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Ability to provide the trust wide and Divisional strategic overview of the development of information systems to support high quality care and organisational effectiveness.
- Influencing skills: ability to engage clinicians to implement and embed change to achieve successful outcomes.
- Ability to interface between clinical staff and the informatics team, to provide clarity, both on the implementation process, gaining a positive and sustainable approach to implementation that is both practical and timeline driven.
- Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations, competing demands and tight timescales
- Excellent communication skills: able to express complicated, multi-stranded concepts in an accessible way, both verbally and in writing and in a multi-professional environment, and be able to manage, process and express complex information in multiple formats.
- Presentation skills: able to confidently present information publicly using a variety of media in different settings in both 1:1 settings and to large gatherings of clinical professionals (conferences and workshops, etc.)
- Technical skills: competent in the use of ICT and a good level of understanding of professional informatics standards and best practice
- Patient safety: Responsibility for clinical risk management of clinical informatics systems and services in accordance with NHS standards
- Able and motivated to travel across all sites to address all aspects of the implementation programme and is flexible in being able to do so.
Desirable
- Attained national Clinical Safety Officer Training for clinicians
- Information skills: able to critique and interpret aggregate information, based on an understanding of clinical, data and information processes, and analytical skills.
- Organisation development: understanding of the requirements of an information culture and emerging technologies.
- Benefits management: able to identify and articulate benefits of information-enabled change.
Person Specification
Education
Essential
- Registered Midwife with a current NMC registration and with relevant degree qualification
- Demonstrable leadership/management experience
- Robust in-depth understanding of healthcare IT systems and how they may be used in their specialist field
- Evidence of further education in healthcare informatics, such as short courses or post graduate certificates
- Masters level degree in either informatics, business analysis or process re-engineering, or relevant experience
Desirable
- Master's degree in risk, governance and patient safety or equivalent (or relevant experience)
Personal qualities
Essential
- Passionate about information as a tool to drive up clinical quality of care and support professional practice.
- Excellent communicator both orally and in writing
- Successful influencer and negotiator
- Confidence and self-motivation
- Credible in a multi-professional environment
- Resilient
- Energetic and motivated for the role.
Desirable
- Ability to write papers at board level with effective presentation skills
Experience
Essential
- oSignificant experience in clinical practice within Maternity
- Active involvement in at least one informatics intervention to improve care quality.
- Change management experience related to the planning and delivery of work in a clinical setting.
- Risk management: training and experience in risk management sufficient to understand potential risks from informatics solutions from a clinical perspective.
- Proven ability to engage effectively with a broad range of stakeholders and in a multi-professional environment.
Desirable
- Understanding of the local, regional and national commissioning environment and standards expected by commissioners.
Skills and knowledge
Essential
- Ability to provide the trust wide and Divisional strategic overview of the development of information systems to support high quality care and organisational effectiveness.
- Influencing skills: ability to engage clinicians to implement and embed change to achieve successful outcomes.
- Ability to interface between clinical staff and the informatics team, to provide clarity, both on the implementation process, gaining a positive and sustainable approach to implementation that is both practical and timeline driven.
- Resilient: able to cope with difficult interpersonal situations, competing demands and tight timescales
- Excellent communication skills: able to express complicated, multi-stranded concepts in an accessible way, both verbally and in writing and in a multi-professional environment, and be able to manage, process and express complex information in multiple formats.
- Presentation skills: able to confidently present information publicly using a variety of media in different settings in both 1:1 settings and to large gatherings of clinical professionals (conferences and workshops, etc.)
- Technical skills: competent in the use of ICT and a good level of understanding of professional informatics standards and best practice
- Patient safety: Responsibility for clinical risk management of clinical informatics systems and services in accordance with NHS standards
- Able and motivated to travel across all sites to address all aspects of the implementation programme and is flexible in being able to do so.
Desirable
- Attained national Clinical Safety Officer Training for clinicians
- Information skills: able to critique and interpret aggregate information, based on an understanding of clinical, data and information processes, and analytical skills.
- Organisation development: understanding of the requirements of an information culture and emerging technologies.
- Benefits management: able to identify and articulate benefits of information-enabled change.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
