Job summary
Maternity services at Saint Mary's provide women living in Central Manchester, Trafford, Salford, the North West and beyond with primary, secondary and tertiary obstetric services. Saint Mary's is renowned both regionally and nationally for its research, clinical fetal and maternal medicine services with a very complex patient population.
Due to the promotion of the current post holder an exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced midwife to join the maternity team within Saint Mary's Maternity Services.
We are looking for a highly motivated individual with knowledge of maternity digital systems to support the ongoing digital platform within our maternity services and lead on service changes including introduction of electronic patient records. The maternity digital lead will support the digital agenda with an energetic and motivated team of senior leaders, midwives, and obstetricians.
The post holder has a key leadership and management role at a senior level and will provide specialist skills and knowledge to support the organisation in reviewing and assessing of local maternity service digital requirement and overall collaboration of implementation of integrating a full digital maternity system. Supporting the daily business of data capture and on-going projects within the Trust and support in the analysis of current trends and benchmarking process flows and cultural norms for midwifery care across Saint Mary's Hospital MCS
Main duties of the job
The Digital Midwife will work in collaboration with the senior maternity leadership team, clinical leads and divisional management to design, plan and deliver the digital strategy, facilitating and implement change within Maternity Services including ensuring compliance with appropriate national standards
The Digital Midwife will be an effective ambassador for the trust, be credible and knowledgeable with the confidence and interpersonal skills to work with clinical, managerial and support staff at all levels across maternity services and the wider organisation. If you think you have the expertise in maternity digital programs and processes and have a proactive 'can do' approach, and confident in managing challenging and changing workloads we would like to hear from you.
You will need to be able to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with a driving passion and determination to support the senior midwifery team in line with the exciting national picture of care and compassion. The successful candidates will need to have excellent IT knowledge and skill base of both midwifery clinical practice and the digital agenda.In this key role you will work closely with the Matrons, Lead Midwife for Governance and Deputy Head of Midwifery and will have access to a bespoke development plan.
About us
MFT is England's largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we've launched in September 2022.
We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Job description
Job responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the NHS England website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
Were looking forward to hearing from you!
Person Specification
Skills&Abilities
Essential
- Evidence of Midwifery Degree
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Capacity to work with in a multidisciplinary team
- Effective organisational skills Good analytical and clinical decision making skills
- Capable of prioritising, planning, adapting plans and resource planning
- Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
Training and Experience
Essential
- Evidence of experience in data collection, extraction and analysis
- Evidence of recent CPD
- evidence of MDT working
- Evidence of multidisciplinary/multi agency
Desirable
Qualifications&Knowledge
Essential
- Registered Midwife Graduate level
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Qualified Mentor
- Sign off mentor
- Knowledge of the digital agenda
- Knowledge of multi-agency working
- Knowledge on extracting and analysing data
- Knowledge of MSDS dataset
Desirable
- Experience of clinical audit.
- Experience of research activities
- Knowledge of IT interoperability
Person Specification
Skills&Abilities
Essential
- Evidence of Midwifery Degree
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Capacity to work with in a multidisciplinary team
- Effective organisational skills Good analytical and clinical decision making skills
- Capable of prioritising, planning, adapting plans and resource planning
- Exemplary personal standards of conduct and behaviour
Training and Experience
Essential
- Evidence of experience in data collection, extraction and analysis
- Evidence of recent CPD
- evidence of MDT working
- Evidence of multidisciplinary/multi agency
Desirable
Qualifications&Knowledge
Essential
- Registered Midwife Graduate level
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Qualified Mentor
- Sign off mentor
- Knowledge of the digital agenda
- Knowledge of multi-agency working
- Knowledge on extracting and analysing data
- Knowledge of MSDS dataset
Desirable
- Experience of clinical audit.
- Experience of research activities
- Knowledge of IT interoperability
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).
