Lead Digital Midwife

This is a 6 month secondment opportunity to join the specialist midwifery team within the trust with assigned professional leadership acting as the midwifery digital specialist when representing internal and external meetings for University Hospital of North Midlands (UHNM).
You will have the ability to establish good team relationships and collaboration within the trust, local maternity systems as well as with external agencies.
You will have ownership and responsibility for co-ordination and collation of data for the trust with colleagues in the maternity senior management team, IT department and external agencies when required.
To work with clinical informatics, business managers and finance to assess the benefits of digital initiatives and local technology projects in order to implement digital change.
You will be responsible for identifying and leading significant service and operational transformation.
To lead on the delivery of the digital maternity transformation programme recommendations and evaluate the maternity electronic patient record systems ability, as an enabler, to drive up patient safety.
You will be responsible for the day-to-day system administration of the Maternity Information System and its development, as required to fulfil the needs of the Maternity service.
You will be the expert for current UHNM maternity IT system and will use their knowledge and their negotiating skills to help improve the service to support safer care., · Act as a leader within the maternity service, supporting the development and implementation of the maternity record and relevant information management and technology systems.
· Support the implementation and training of staff in the use of the digital maternity record and associated systems across the maternity service., 1. All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly.
2. References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment.
3. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
4. Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies
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University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve., At UHNM we are fortunate to receive a high volume of applications for many of our roles, on this occasion we would reserve the right to close any advert early, therefore please apply without delay!