Job summary
We are recruiting for a Lead Digital Midwife and Deputy CNIO 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 technologyand developing clinical Information that supports and enhances nursing practice and organisational efficiency. Also driving continuous clinical process improvement in the Nursing and Midwifery divisions focused on patient outcomes and 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
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching 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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for more detailed information on the role of the Lead Digital Midwife.
Job description
Job 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
- Registered MIdwife
- First level degree in related healthcare
- Evidence of Masters degree or equivalent experience
- Teaching qualification
- CSO Trained or willingness to undertake
Desirable
- Digital Health Leadership Course
- Post Grad management qualification and/or equivalent experience
- Project management qualification/experinece
Previous experience
Essential
- 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
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills relating to IT Systems
- Service development experience, delivering clinical quality improvements and successful service change
Desirable
- Experience in change management, service development
Skills
Essential
- 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
- Problem solving and analytical skills relating to the identification and assessment of evidence required to support decision making
- Demonstrable ability to work professionally under pressure, and deadlines
- Demonstrable ability to concentrate and maintain high degree of accuracy
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills, report writing and investigation skills
- Evidence of project management
- Ability to work across a large range specialties
Desirable
- Knowledge of clinical systems, including CMIS, K2 and many more
Other rquirements
Essential
- Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda
- Role model our Trust values every day
- Proven ability to emotionally support other staff and self-reflect on interpersonal style
- Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality
- Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Registered MIdwife
- First level degree in related healthcare
- Evidence of Masters degree or equivalent experience
- Teaching qualification
- CSO Trained or willingness to undertake
Desirable
- Digital Health Leadership Course
- Post Grad management qualification and/or equivalent experience
- Project management qualification/experinece
Previous experience
Essential
- 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
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills relating to IT Systems
- Service development experience, delivering clinical quality improvements and successful service change
Desirable
- Experience in change management, service development
Skills
Essential
- 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
- Problem solving and analytical skills relating to the identification and assessment of evidence required to support decision making
- Demonstrable ability to work professionally under pressure, and deadlines
- Demonstrable ability to concentrate and maintain high degree of accuracy
Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, excellent verbal and written communication skills, report writing and investigation skills
- Evidence of project management
- Ability to work across a large range specialties
Desirable
- Knowledge of clinical systems, including CMIS, K2 and many more
Other rquirements
Essential
- Experience and evidence of engagement around the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda
- Role model our Trust values every day
- Proven ability to emotionally support other staff and self-reflect on interpersonal style
- Able to actively support the development of a culture that recognises and promotes equality
- Understands the impact on equality, diversity and inclusion issues in all aspects of service delivery and planning
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).
