Digital Support Midwife / Deputy Digital Midwife

Are you passionate about digital innovation in healthcare? Medway NHS Foundation Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for a Digital Support Midwife to join our forward-thinking maternity team. In this role, you'll work closely with the Lead Digital Midwife to support the ongoing enhancement of our Maternity Information System, ensuring high standards of data quality that underpin safe and effective care.
You will play a key role in supporting digital platforms, including electronic patient records, while helping colleagues embrace technologies and improve service delivery. This is your chance to be part of a new team, driving forward digital transformation and making a real impact on maternity services.
If you're technologically minded, passionate about quality care, and ready to support digital change, this opportunity may be for you!
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust., Be an expert clinician in the use and management of the Maternity Information System (EuroKing) and act as a clinical partner with the IT clinical systems team for timely troubleshooting.
Assist with the development and ongoing support of the Maternity Information System, including monitoring of data quality and ensuring that maternity data is accurately captured, processed, and used for service improvement and audit purposes.
Contribute to system configuration and enhancements, collaborating with clinical teams, IT and system suppliers to ensure systems meet the needs of the service and enhancing clinical workflows.
Provide digital peer support to clinical staff, helping to resolve and signpost issues.
Support the development and management of the maternity service's social media presence, collaborating with the communications team to ensure that content promotes safe and engaging messaging for patients and staff.
Deputise for the Lead Digital Midwife when necessary, ensuring continuity in leadership and support during system updates, clinical meetings, teaching or audits.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Working for our organisation
Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.
As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:
B - Bold
E - Every person counts
S - Sharing and open
T - Together
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, As a Digital Support Midwife for Medway NHS Foundation Trust you will utilise your midwifery skills and knowledge to keep birthing people and service users at the centre of digital health and transformation. You will play a crucial role in supporting the digital agenda within the maternity services, assisting and deputising for the Lead Digital Midwife.
You will assist with the ongoing enhancements and maintenance of the maternity information system, ensuring high data quality standards, including regular management and analysis of maternity data. You will also have the opportunity to play a key role in planning and implementation of any future maternity information system.
You will be involved in teaching and training, to improve digital skills and capability in the workforce and advocate for the user experience and clinical safety. Your role will involve a variety of digital technologies and processes in maternity, but also some involvement with other digital programmes within the hospital. You will be involved with the development and updates to the maternity social media and the hospital website.
This position requires you to work closely and visibly within the multidisciplinary team, offering guidance and support as needed. You will also deputise in representing the maternity department and the Trust to external agencies such as the LMNS and ICB, acting as a supportive and positive role model.
You will be supported to gain initial insight and experience. This role will ensure there is comprehensive representation for the maternity digital agenda by having both lead and support functionality. It offers flexibility and the opportunity to work creatively in a small team as well as
on your own initiative.

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum