Job summary
The Maternity Lead Digital Midwife will lead on the implementation and development of
the maternity digital record aligned to the digital strategy. They will work collaboratively
to ensure that the organisational digital agenda includes the maternity digital agenda.
They will be required to champion the aims and objectives of the digital maternity
transformation and will develop and maintain strong relationships with clinical leads,
practice development team, operational managers, and the wider IM&T team to deliver
an effective and innovative maternity digital record solution that underpins high quality
maternity care delivery aligned to national benchmarks.
The post holder needs a sound understanding of current and future maternity digital
drivers and digital maternity record requirements and will draw on their clinical,
technical, and operational experience to work collaboratively to develop and deploy
solutions to meet the demanding requirements of maternity care.
Main duties of the job
Drive, align and deliver on strategies linked to the maternity service
transformation, the maternity digital electronic patient record (MEPR)
programme and IM&T strategy to support a culture of woman-centred care
within the Maternity service.
Support the Clinical Governance Team for Maternity services delivering the
Clinical Governance Framework.
Contribute to the successful delivery of the Maternity Digital Transformation
programme aligned with the trust EPR programme.
Lead and support co-production with Maternity and Neonatal Voices Partnership (MNVP).
Being aware of process and procedure and enable, frontline maternity
clinicians/specialists to optimise and continue to embed the use of the DMCR
(Digital Maternity Clinical Record) to reduce information silos, improve
consistent risk assessment standards and thereby improving safety and
supporting organisational reporting and audit requirements. Which in turn will
support organisational Maternity reporting of Maternal and Neonatal reporting
schedules/cycles for local, regional, and national mandatory reporting
requirements (MSDS, CNST).
Support and advise clinical leads on how the DMCR can, as a by-product of
care, capture, extract and submit data to the MSDS to the required standard.
Contribute to NCL, LMNS, and national development of Maternity Dashboard.
Please refer to the JD and PS for detailed duties.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for someone who demonstrates a highly visible, compassionate and democratic leadership style which is underpinned by the Whittington Health ICARE values, and available to respond to mothers, relatives and the public by maintaining open and honest communication channels.
Please refer to the Job description and Person Specification for detailed information.
Job description
Job responsibilities
We are looking for someone who demonstrates a highly visible, compassionate and democratic leadership style which is underpinned by the Whittington Health ICARE values, and available to respond to mothers, relatives and the public by maintaining open and honest communication channels.
Please refer to the Job description and Person Specification for detailed information.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Professional and competent knowledge related to Maternal, Fetal and Neonatal care across the maternity pathway
- Teaching qualification- Mentorship qualification and / or recent teaching activity
- MSc level) or equivalent experience in one or more of the following- Governance systems and process (e.g. complaints management/ risk management /quality assurancesystems/governance/Improvement/Leaders hip)
Desirable
- Health Informatics postgraduate qualification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Digitally literate with a good knowledge and understanding of digital systems and advances to develop and manage electronic patient records
- Problem solving and analytical skills relating to the identification and assessment of evidence required to support decision making
- Ability to understand and support implementation of IT systems and specify reporting requirements where accuracy is essential
- Ability to be critically analytical using evidence-based Maternity clinical/ nonclinical information to investigate, review, identify, correct, amend issues in information systems - Maternity digital record, PAS, digital information systems that impact on organisational, professional clinical accountability.
- Awareness and understanding of the relevance of high-quality data and data validity
- Awareness of professional accountability and the importance of data impact on contextual clinical risk assessments
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 5 years clinical post qualification experience working - antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal acute and outpatient areas.
- In-depth knowledge of IM&T system and procedures acquired through a combination of specialist training and relevant study to master's degree or equivalent level
- Experience of leading and implementing change
- Project management experience
- Experience of working with healthcare clinical IT systems
- In-depth understanding of the Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS) and ability to apply the findings to improve service delivery
- Understanding of MSDS, CNST, SVBL v3 and evidenced based risk assessments.
- Have an understanding and awareness of the National Maternity and Child Health agenda
- Be conversant with current professional issues in relation to nursing/midwifery
Desirable
- Member of DMERG, and or be prepared to join
- Member of digital system supplier user group
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
Essential
- Registered Midwife
- Professional and competent knowledge related to Maternal, Fetal and Neonatal care across the maternity pathway
- Teaching qualification- Mentorship qualification and / or recent teaching activity
- MSc level) or equivalent experience in one or more of the following- Governance systems and process (e.g. complaints management/ risk management /quality assurancesystems/governance/Improvement/Leaders hip)
Desirable
- Health Informatics postgraduate qualification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Digitally literate with a good knowledge and understanding of digital systems and advances to develop and manage electronic patient records
- Problem solving and analytical skills relating to the identification and assessment of evidence required to support decision making
- Ability to understand and support implementation of IT systems and specify reporting requirements where accuracy is essential
- Ability to be critically analytical using evidence-based Maternity clinical/ nonclinical information to investigate, review, identify, correct, amend issues in information systems - Maternity digital record, PAS, digital information systems that impact on organisational, professional clinical accountability.
- Awareness and understanding of the relevance of high-quality data and data validity
- Awareness of professional accountability and the importance of data impact on contextual clinical risk assessments
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Minimum of 5 years clinical post qualification experience working - antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal acute and outpatient areas.
- In-depth knowledge of IM&T system and procedures acquired through a combination of specialist training and relevant study to master's degree or equivalent level
- Experience of leading and implementing change
- Project management experience
- Experience of working with healthcare clinical IT systems
- In-depth understanding of the Maternity Services Data Set (MSDS) and ability to apply the findings to improve service delivery
- Understanding of MSDS, CNST, SVBL v3 and evidenced based risk assessments.
- Have an understanding and awareness of the National Maternity and Child Health agenda
- Be conversant with current professional issues in relation to nursing/midwifery
Desirable
- Member of DMERG, and or be prepared to join
- Member of digital system supplier user group
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).
