Digital Midwife
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Job summary
The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic midwife to join our innovative, award winning team and dynamic maternity clinical governance team. The clinical governance team consists of the practice development team, audit midwives and patient experience midwives and work in close collaboration with midwifery, obstetric, anaesthetic and neonatal leaders to provide clinical governance leadership and support to the maternity department.
With ever increasing reliance on digital services, we have an exciting opportunity to expand our digital midwifery team. As a digital midwife, you will focus on providing leadership regarding the use of electronic patient records and supporting digital services with Maternity.
The maternity department utilises BadgerNet and Oracle Millennium EPR for the documentation of its maternity and neonatal care as well as other supportive systems, including NIPESmart and virtual wards for home BP monitoring and home glucose monitoring.
The maternity department at the Royal Surrey is highly successful; it is rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, has achieved Gold Accreditation under the Unicef Baby Friendly Initiative and has achieved all 10 safety actions as a part of NHS Resolution's CNST scheme.
For an informal tour, or if you would like to learn more about the job, please speak to Clare Cardu cccardu@nhs.net Head of Midwifery 01483 571122 ext 2312
Main duties of the job
1. To lead on and co-ordinate auditing of electronic patient record in the clinical areas to facilitate improvement in the standard of documentation across the service.
2. To support on-going implementation of electronic information systems to deliver clinical effectiveness, including audit projects. To work, in collaboration with local stakeholders including the STP and LMNS, to develop local Maternity Information Systems e.g. BadgerNet
3. To design, develop and maintain electronic information systems to store and archive all the clinical audits in maternity for submission as evidence as required for the NHSLA standards and CQC assessment process.
4. To maintain an up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of local and national clinical effectiveness/audit issues, including the interpretation of national health polices relevant to the maternity services to ensure that goals and standards are reflected in the maternity risk management strategy.
About us
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Details
Date posted
20 March 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£48,270 to £54,931 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
384-TM-EMF18141 B7
Job locations
Royal Surrey
Egerton Road
Guildford
GU2 7XX
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Surrey
Egerton Road
Guildford
GU2 7XX
Employer's website
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