Job overview
Exciting times lie ahead for the Neonatal Services at LTHTR as we continue our digital journey towards implementing a full neonatal-specific Electronic Patient Record system. If you have neonatal nursing clinical knowledge, skills, and experience by the bucket load, and you are ready for a change or a new challenge, then come and be our neonatal digital nurse!
Our digital nurse will be responsible for assessing and reviewing the neonatal service's digital requirements, seeking to expand the digital profile with the overall aim of integrating a full digital system.
You will ensure the neonatal IT system fully supports all aspects of the neonatal pathway.
Main duties of the job
Our digital nurse will be responsible for the development of the neonatal information system, redesigning, configuring, and enhancing the information system as required. This must link to other systems within the organisation, and you will support integration with other health solutions.
You will support the implementation of the neonatal IT system and be responsible for system changes. Alongside clinical staff and software developers, you will review current and future clinical information requirements and the systems in place.
You will coordinate and integrate various facets of implementation into clinical care, including clinical requirements, IT helpdesk support, network support, senior management, and risk management.
You will have a key role in managing the IT system, working with clinical leads and staff to create a safe environment and facilitate electronic records for babies within the neonatal service.
You will be expected to meet the standards required by the Trust and the nursing profession. You will ensure safe clinical practice occurs, promote good practice, and ensure the solution delivers the clinical record to the highest possible standard.
You will represent the department at local, Trust-wide and Network meetings and be responsible for delivering a high-quality service.
Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area and provide specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire and Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely makes a difference in supporting our patients and staff, ensuring we keep thriving and delivering outstanding healthcare across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet amazing people, and do things you’d never have imagined.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold, and help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience, making your role pivotal and something to truly be proud of.
The unit is comprised of 28 cots, providing intensive care, high dependency care, special care, and transitional care for babies in the Preston and South Ribble area, as well as premature and sick babies from other parts of Lancashire and South Cumbria.
The unit offers therapies such as cooling, high-frequency oscillation, and nitric oxide treatment. In addition, we have a multi-disciplinary team all working collaboratively within the organisation to provide a seamless service that addresses the needs of neonates through to childhood.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
As an ambassador of the nursing profession, I will ensure clinical practice, supported by digital technology, meets professional standards.
Ensure the neonatal IT system functionality adheres to and supports practitioners' professional standards (e.g., the NMC Code).
Evaluate the neonatal IT system and its ability as an enabler to meet recommendations to drive up patient safety.
️ Maintain a high profile in the clinical area and be accessible to all staff.
Develop and maintain communication channels, engaging all roles within the service, and ensure regular updates are provided.
Work alongside colleagues to help achieve maximum functionality from the existing neonatal IT systems and collaborate with the IT department to link systems.
Ensure staff have the ability to maintain contemporaneous records in line with the Clinical Negligence Scheme for Trusts (CNST) and professional standards.
Investigate clinical incident reports, complaints, and concerns relating to and in association with the neonatal IT system.
Using data populated/collected by the neonatal IT system reporting functionality, contribute towards the monitoring of key performance indicators (KPIs) using the local neonatal dashboard.
️ Provide day-to-day support for users, diagnosing and remedying errors in a timely manner in collaboration with the IT department helpdesk and system suppliers.
Identify and resolve user issues.
Run regular reports to ensure the systems are managed and working effectively.
Maintain the neonatal IT system to ensure accurate and timely statistics are produced for the service, ad hoc national audits, and for statutory returns through liaison with the IT department and senior colleagues.
️️ Work with clinicians who use the neonatal IT system, ensuring they are trained and competent in its use.
Person specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential criteria
1. Registered Nurse/Midwife
2. Neonatal Qualified in Speciality (QIS)
3. Degree in related healthcare discipline
4. Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
5. Undertaken basic qualifications in the use of computer packages such as the European Computer Driving License (ECDL) or Word, PowerPoint and excel software
6. Management or leadership qualification or experience
7. Project management qualification or relevant experience
8. Teaching qualification and / or recent teaching activity
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
9. Experience of working with healthcare administration IT systems
10. Service development experience, delivering clinical quality improvements and successful service change
11. Recent experience of neonatal clinical practice
Desirable criteria
12. Experience of working in all care settings (acute and primary care)
13. Multidisciplinary working
14. Proven experience of working in an environment with a range of IT infrastructures and Microsoft technologies
15. Good understanding of digital systems and advances to develop and manage electronic patient records
Specialist Knowledge
Essential criteria
16. In-depth understanding of the national digital agenda including the National Neonatal Audit Program
17. Up to date and evidence based knowledge of current clinical
Desirable criteria
18. In-depth understanding of the relevance of high quality data
19. In-depth understanding of the Neonatal data set