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Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

About

Kettering General Hospital is a medium-sized district general hospital which provides a wide range of services to about 300,000 people in North Northamptonshire.

The hospital has served its local community since 1897. It became an NHS Trust in 1994 and a Foundation Trust in November 2008.

The Trust's goal is to provide the highest standards of care for all of its patients and to fully support carers and visitors.

It has developed many state-of-the-art facilities run by highly qualified staff including:

An £18m short-stay surgery Centre – The Treatment Centre – which enables the majority of operations to be done with stays of less than 48 hours
A £4.7m Cardiac Centre providing heart-related treatments closer to people’s homes

The Trust also has:

600 inpatient and day case beds
A modern A&E department
A large maternity wing
17 operating theatres
An intensive care unit
Skin care centre – the Jubilee Wing
Cancer care wing – the Centenary Wing
Special care baby unit
Excellent diagnostic facilities e.g. CT and MRI scanners.

The Trust employs more than 3,200 staff and considers them its greatest asset.

As well as services based at the main Kettering site the Trust also runs a wide range of outpatient clinics in Corby, Wellingborough and Irthlingborough.

Contact

Address: Rothwell Road; Kettering; Northamptonshire; NN16 8UZ
Contact Number: 01536 492000

Find out more

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Vacancy status: Open

Ref: 264-6780616-FAM Vacancy ID: 6780616

Digital Midwife

Accepting applications until: 10-Jan-2025 23:59

Vacancy status: Open

Accepting applications until: 10-Jan-2025 23:59

Key details

Location

Gwefan: Kettering General Hospital
Cyfeiriad: Rothwell Road
Tref: Kettering
Cod post: NN17 1UU
Major / Minor Region: Northamptonshire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Oriau: Full time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Cyflog: £37,338 - £44,962 Per Annum
Cyfnod cyflog: Yearly
Gradd: (Band 6)

Specialty

Prif leoliad: Maternity

Trosolwg o'r swydd

The post holder will report to the Lead Digital Midwife and be a core member of the Maternity Digital Team working collaboratively and independently. The digital midwife will support the lead on all activities regarding the electronic patient record systems within maternity, to include initial and on-going system development, implementation and training and for ensuring the accuracy of data within the service. They will work with the Lead Digital Midwife and with the multi professional team to improve the accuracy and completeness of data quality and work to ensure that national data quality standards are met.

Your role will include supporting the process of monthly reports of KPI, the maternity dashboard and cross checking of data to ensure accuracy. You will work with members of the multidisciplinary team within the hospital and community venues, including midwifery staff, medical personnel, coding, contracts, informatics and digital. You will deliver information based on current evidence-based research.

You will need to maintain a clinical element to your role along with participating in the escalation rota.

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· Be Responsible for all aspects of the ongoing management and development of the maternity information system.

· Be responsible for monitoring the quality of use of the maternity system for all clinical [obstetric and midwifery], agency and admin staff.

· Provide support for staff with the day to day use of the maternity information system.

· Lead in implementing new solutions as the needs of Maternity Service change and the capabilities of the IT systems evolve.

· Work in collaboration with the IT Supplier and technical staff at the Trust and the IT providers to implement new interfaces to other Trust and Maternity Systems as the needs of the Maternity services change and the capabilities of the system evolve.

· Work in collaboration with the Trust’s information Department towards the effective provision of the information for all clinical, business and research related purposes including definitions of the base data required and methods for its collection and processing.

· In collaboration with others, review current and future clinical information requirements in maternity services, reviewing systems currently in place and drawing up plans for meeting those requirements.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. Our mission is to provide safe, compassionate, and clinically excellent patient care, by being an outstanding employer for our people. We have entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Northampton General Hospital and have become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.

Our Excellence Values:

Compassion

Respect

Integrity

Courageous

Accountable

Swydd ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl

· Help generate reports as required from the Maternity Information system and liaise closely with senior managers to meet requirements of national surveys and audits where appropriate, and support other local initiatives as required.

· Undertake and assist in the writing robust reports for various committees and meetings.

· Work with speciality leads in making recommendations for change in practice as a result of audits, incidents, trend analysis, root cause analysis and risk assessment to develop and promote midwifery practice.

· Be an active member of the guidelines group.

· Support in the process for submitting monthly dashboard and quarterly KPI information.

· Liaise with the coding team to ensure correct coding and payment pathways.

· Work with the Information Department in submitting the monthly MSDS report.

· Liaise with the Hearing Screening team, Child Health Hub and Birth Registration to ensure correct information transfer of birth notifications and receipt of NHS numbers.

· Support the Antenatal and Newborn screening team with data collection and submission for national and regional data submissions

· To support staff in undertaking audits and research with data requirements.

· To work closely with the governance midwife in order to develop and advance practice.

Important Information

Applications will be transferred to TRAC system, by completing an application your are giving authorisation for the transfer of your data.

Correspondence regarding your application will be sent to you via a TRAC system account.

We are an equal opportunities employer, which aims to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons from all backgrounds.

We welcome applications from members of our black and minority ethnic (BME) communities, especially in relation to senior posts within at KGH.

Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.

Appointments will be made on merit.

In submitting an application form, you authorise Kettering General Hospital (KGH) NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Electronic Staff Record (ESR) Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process. Including factual reference, occupational health clearance and statutory and mandatory training record.

If you need to have a Disclosure Barring Service (DBS) check, as a requirement of the role, you will be required to repay the cost of obtaining a DBS check (£49.50) and this amount will be reclaimed from your first salary. From 1st February 2019 all new starters to the Trust are required to join the DBS update service as per Trust DBS Re-checking Policy which has an annual cost of £16. New employees who do not join the update service will be required to pay £49.50 for a new DBS check in 3 years time.

Please note that news starters with KGH are subject to a six month probationary period.

Please ensure that the information you provide on your application form is correct, accurate and that nothing has been omitted. Any information that is stated in your application form in relation to qualifications/training courses/work/education experience/references must be able to be evidenced. Failure to do so may result if your offer being withdrawn.

"Safeguarding is everyone's business. KGH considers Safeguarding a priority amongst its citizen's and a key value for all employed to the service."

We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities. The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative. We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.

Applicant requirements

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.