A Maternity Digital Midwife will support the Maternity Lead Digital Midwife with the implementation and development of the Maternity digital strategy.
The Maternity specialist digital record is central to the Maternity Transformation Programme. They will ensure that the maternity digital record remains focused on improving Maternal and Neonatal outcomes. The Maternity digital record is designed to support Maternity clinicians to use evidence-based risk assessment tools across the Maternity pathway e.g., Smoking, Saving Babies Lives (SBLCB v3.3) etc, which will promote and provide safe and effective practice.
They will support and advise local clinical leads on processes to enhance the experience and engagement of maternity clinical staff to optimise care.
They will review and validate data to ensure maintenance of a contextual maternity record. This will support organisational Maternity reporting of Maternal and Neonatal reporting schedules/cycles for local, regional, and national mandatory reporting requirements (MSDS, MIS including SBLCB v3.2).
The successful candidate will display understanding and professional commitment to how the Maternity Digital Agenda can support NHS clinicians to deliver safer care and enhance the experience provided by Maternity services.
Critically review, amend, and contemporaneously update data in the maternity digital record to ensure contextual accuracy and availability for the safe delivery of care and reporting requirements.
Advise, promote, and monitor safe and effective practice using maternity digital record keeping.
Support and highlight issues that may impact on reporting requirements and data quality and validation
Support the Clinical Governance Team for Maternity and Neonatal services delivering the Clinical Governance strategy.
Highlight data quality issues to individual clinicians, clinical and operational leads, across the Maternity pathway that impact on the safe delivery of maternity care to our service users.
Contribute to the development of the Maternity digital record, ensuring it supports evidence based maternity risk assessment and practice.
Please see the JD and PS for further details.
Whittington Mission and Goals
We have an excellent reputation for being innovative, responsive and flexible to the changing clinical needs of the local population. We are treating more patients than ever before and are dedicated to improving services to deliver the best for our patients.
Our mission
Helping local people live longer, healthier lives.
Our vision
Provide safe, personal, co-ordinated care for the community we serve.
Our goals
We have developed six key strategic goals to make sure we continue to support people to live longer, healthier lives.
To secure the best possible health and wellbeing for all our community
To integrate and coordinate care in person-centred teams
To deliver consistent, high quality, safe services
To support our patients and users in being active partners in their care
To be recognised as a leader in the fields of medical and multi-professional education, and population-based clinical research
To innovate and continuously improve the quality of our services to deliver the best outcomes for our local population
Collaborate with others, reviewing current and future clinical information systems to support Maternity requirements, review processes currently in place and contribute to plans for meeting those requirements.
Contribute expert professional maternity advice in the identification of local solutions and delivery requirements to the Maternity service, aligned to the national maternity agenda, and across the maternity pathway - antenatal, intrapartum, and postnatal, acting as a specialist midwife to enable this.
Contribute to the creation and generation of reports of scheduled Maternity data as required and advise and work with the senior midwifery managers and informatics team to meet requirements of local audits, national surveys, reports where appropriate, and other local quality improvement projects as required.
Contribute to the development and review of Maternity Trust guidelines, policies, and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to support the maternity governance strategy.
Support the monitoring and the quality of use of the digital maternity record for all clinical, allied health professionals and administration staff using the maternity system.
Encourage a culture of paper light and eventually paperless working within the Maternity service. Support and engage with clinical leads to support users to use the Maternity digital record safely, efficiently, and accurately.
Contribute to the development, and optimisation of digital solutions, supporting Maternity standards of care, safety, quality and in line with the maternity health agenda and digital strategy.
Please see the JD and PS for further details

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