Digital Midwife in Doncaster

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 for developing and delivering a robust training plan and providing 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.
• Represent 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.

Working for our organisation:

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.

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.

Benefits:

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

Person specification:

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

Qualifications & 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.
• Master's Degree or equivalent experience.
• Teaching qualification.

Personal Attributes & 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.