Job summary
The Digital Midwife provides clinical leadership to ensure maternity services are fully represented within the Maternity Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme. Acting as the link between maternity teams and the digital programme, the postholder supports the design, implementation, optimisation, and adoption of the EPR, ensuring clinical workflows, documentation, safety requirements, and reporting needs are accurately reflected.

The Digital Midwife will provide education and training for all staff on the Maternity Information System to minimise errors and incidents due to lack of staff knowledge. They will also be responsible to develop and deliver a robust training plan and provide direction, motivation and support to all users, both clinical and non-clinical. The post holder will be required to have system management experience and have expert knowledge of the maternity specific EPR.

Working closely with clinical, operational, and digital colleagues, the role translates maternity requirements into effective digital solutions, supporting process redesign, system configuration, testing, training, and user engagement. The Digital Midwife champions digital transformation, promotes best practice, and identifies opportunities to improve patient safety, data quality, information sharing, and service efficiency. The Digital Midwife will be required to submit local, regional and national data sets to ensure compliance with statutory, regulatory and reporting.

Main duties of the job

• Work clinically with frontline teams in delivering direct patient care as a professional expert and role model in the use of clinical informatics.
• Support the delivery of safe, clinical technology to promote safe, efficient and timely patient care and the Trust's Digital Strategy.
• Collaborate and assist the CNIO and Digital Matron to deliver the best technology to support high quality and safe patient care.
• Identify and explore potential system developments which support staff in changing both clinical and administrative practices, underpinning the delivery of more effective and efficient patient care.
• Representing the views of healthcare professionals across the Trust when designing, testing, and implementing new systems.
• Act as a key resource to support change in the clinical environment; working alongside clinical colleagues, leading by example to understand challenges and motivate those who are reluctant to embrace digital technology and use strength-based approaches to enhance the benefits innovation and new skills will bring.

About us
DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.

At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.

As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:

• Extensive range of learning opportunities
• NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms and Conditions
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
• NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice scheme
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.

Details
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year Pro Rata Per Annum
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 12 months
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 272-8388523

Person Specification
Essential knowledge and experience

• Substantial senior-level midwifery experience, with evidence of recent clinical practice.
• Experience of leading multidisciplinary teams, implementing change and delivering quality-improvement initiatives.
• Experience of teaching, mentoring and delivering presentations to groups of different sizes.
• Knowledge of maternity pathways and their interfaces with acute, community, nursing and allied health professional services.
• Ability to translate complex clinical requirements into digital solutions and assess their impact on clinical practice and patient care
• Knowledge of clinical and information governance, patient safety, incident management and clinical risk-management processes.
• Understanding of change-management principles and current and emerging healthcare technologies.
• Competent user of Microsoft applications

Desirable knowledge and experience

• Knowledge and experience of project and programme management processes, delivery and post-implementation review
• Commitment to learning about and implementing new technology and process to enhance patient care and individual team performance.

Essential qualifications and training

• Educated to degree level
• NMC Professional Qualification
• Leadership qualification or equivalent experience
• Teaching / mentorship experience
• Completion of the essential and intermediate Digital Clinical Safety training

Desirable qualifications and training

• Relevant qualification in Digital Transformation /Leadership/Change Management
• Master's Degree or equivalent experience
• Teaching qualification
• Digital Clinical Safety practitioner qualification

Essential personal attributes and skills

• Demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, including good written and verbal communication, and team building to maintain effective working relationships
• Demonstrates a cohesive team working approach, exchanging ideas and providing support to colleagues
• Respects and embraces diversity
• Communicate sensitive and complex information with relevant parties to maintain progress
• Good problem-solving skills
• Work across diverse teams such as Clinicians, non-clinical staff, AHPs, GPs and other Healthcare Professionals
• Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability to change
• Self-motivated, enthusiastic and able to use own initiative to effectively manage and prioritise a varied workload
• Ability to articulate a clear view of the job role, responsibilities, objective, scope and opportunities
• Ability to apply analytical and critical thinking to work processes

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS FT
Address: Doncaster Royal Infirmary, Armthorpe Road, Doncaster, DN2 5LT, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.dbth.nhs.uk/

For questions about the job, contact:
Digital Matron, Georgina Redfearne, georgina.redfearne@nhs.net, 01302644445

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