Job overview

1.      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. The maternity department prides itself on the high quality care it provides to women and families; this is achieved by focusing on innovation, quality improvement and staff health and wellbeing.

As the Digital Midwife, you will be responsible for leading the development of electronic documentation within the maternity service. These include BadgerNet, Oracle Millennium, NIPE and Genome Audit systems. This will include optimising their usage within the clinical setting, providing training, improving data quality and auditing to improve clinical effectiveness. You will be responsible for sharing the results of your work and implementing action plans to improve clinical care, data quality and usage of the electronic patient systems. You will be working as a part of the Maternity Clinical Governance team, and alongside another Digital Midwife.

As the Digital Midwife, you will be confident using digital systems, and, ideally, have experience using BadgerNet. You will be confident in data analysis, and presenting complex ideas to the multi-professional team. You will be offered the opportunity for flexible working.

Main duties of the job

To act as the digital midwife within the maternity department, leading and managing the electronic patient record and its utilisaiton.

To provide coordination and oversight of the Electronic Patient Record within maternity services ensuring effective data collection and extraction. Ensure that all requirements for national reporting are achieved through use of the system.

Use data to obtain and analyse data regarding to clinical effectiveness, and ensure accuracy of data published for internal and external use. To provide training and support to all staff members on the use of the electronic patient record.

To support the implementation and use of the Trust’s electronic patient record within maternity, to include system development, training for maternity staff members and floor walking to support staff in practice.

Working for our organisation

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.

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