Digital Midwife

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.

The digital midwife will lead on all activities regarding the electronic patient record systems within maternity, to include initial and on-going system development, implementation and training. The digital midwife will be responsible for working with the multiprofessional team to improve the accuracy and completeness of data quality and work to ensure that national data quality standards are met, including the Maternity Services Data Set. The digitial midwife will be responsible for analyzing data, completing exception reports and providing data for internal use. The digitial midwife will also be responsible for extracting data for national reporting and ensuring accuracy of the data.

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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Qualifications

Essential: - Evidence of post-registration education; - Mentorship qualification (or equivalent)

Desirable: - Practising registered midwife with demonstrable experience

Knowledge & Experience

Essential: - Previous experience of BadgerNet and Electronic Patient Records; - Evidence of good organisational and planning skills; - Able to problem solve

Desirable: - Previous experience of Electronic Patient Records