Digital Coordinator

Job summary

Would you like to work in a highly motivated and friendly Maternity digital team covering Bath, North East Somerset and West Wiltshire? This is an exciting opportunity to join our digital maternity team where you will work as part of a dynamic team, in a administrative and quality role.

The role of the digital coordinator is to focus on ensuring that maternity data is accurate, reliable and reportable. The successful candidate will have good IT and communication skills and be able to record data, identify system issues and develop new process. This is a key role in the provision of supporting data quality and driving service change, and the post holder will need to exercise initiative, independent judgement and decision making to ensure the delivery of an effective and high quality service.

Rated 'Outstanding' in our latest CQC review, our service consists of an acute and 2 standalone birth centres. We also have 2 community midwifery led hubs, a 24 hour Maternity Assessment Unit and are in the planning stages of an alongside midwifery unit at the RUH site. This is your chance to be part of a transforming organisation and we look forward to working with you to develop this service to a high standard.

Main duties of the job

To regularly download reports relating to key birth outcomes, analysing data and drawing pertinent conclusions into infographics, charts and tables for senior presentations;

To complete data validation tasks, working unsupervised.

To manually input data from paper notes or from elsewhere where there is missing data;

To identify areas where data quality is poor and understand the processes for gathering this data

To advise the senior leadership team and the Digital Lead Midwife of any data issues and propose methods to improve data quality, including designing formats for information capture and identifying ways in which data can be used to provide insights or research;

To motivate staff to the correct use of clinical systems to prevent data quality issues arising; this includes identifying training needs.

Develop training and communication tools to drive up data quality

To assist with other data quality and validation issues facing the department, as required;

To assist in the training of new members of staff in the department, as required;

To work flexibly according to the needs of the service;

About us

At the RUH we're proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone's contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.

We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks - celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.

A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.

We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing. We've even got a pool!

We are committed to supporting you and hope you want to join our team. In the meantime, find out more about living and working the beautiful historic city of Bath, learn about our extensive package of staff benefits, and read about how we're providing healthcare fit for the future with the landmark Dyson Cancer Centre and our passion for research.