Digital MidwifeinGuildfordinGuildfordPUBLISHED THU 20 MAR 2025

The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust is looking for an experienced, enthusiastic midwife to join our innovative, award winning team and dynamic maternity clinical governance team. The clinical governance team consists of the practice development team, audit midwives and patient experience midwives and work in close collaboration with midwifery, obstetric, anaesthetic and neonatal leaders to provide clinical governance leadership and support to the maternity department.

With ever increasing reliance on digital services, we have an exciting opportunity to expand our digital midwifery team. As a digital midwife, you will focus on providing leadership regarding the use of electronic patient records and supporting digital services with Maternity.

The maternity department utilises BadgerNet and Oracle Millennium EPR for the documentation of its maternity and neonatal care as well as other supportive systems, including NIPESmart and virtual wards for home BP monitoring and home glucose monitoring.

The maternity department at the Royal Surrey is highly successful; it is rated 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission, has achieved Gold Accreditation under the Unicef Baby Friendly Initiative and has achieved all 10 safety actions as a part of NHS Resolution's CNST scheme.

For an informal tour, or if you would like to learn more about the job, please speak to Clare Cardu Head of Midwifery ext 2312

1. To lead on and co-ordinate auditing of electronic patient record in the clinical areas to facilitate improvement in the standard of documentation across the service.

2. To support on-going implementation of electronic information systems to deliver clinical effectiveness, including audit projects. To work, in collaboration with local stakeholders including the STP and LMNS, to develop local Maternity Information Systems e.g. BadgerNet

3. To design, develop and maintain electronic information systems to store and archive all the clinical audits in maternity for submission as evidence as required for the NHSLA standards and CQC assessment process.

4. To maintain an up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of local and national clinical effectiveness/audit issues, including the interpretation of national health polices relevant to the maternity services to ensure that goals and standards are reflected in the maternity risk management strategy.

About us

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 analysing 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.