Job summary
Employer heading
Digital Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
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Job overview
We are seeking a dynamic and dedicated Digital Nurse to join our Clinical Digital team at Sherwood Forest Hospitals. The successful candidate will support the Chief Nursing Information Officer (CNIO) and play a pivotal role in implementing and maintaining highly complex electronic patient information systems across the Trust.
The successful candidate will collaborate with the clinical team to implement and maintain electronic patient information systems and provide practical support to clinical teams, promoting new ways of working with clinical ICT.
The ideal candidate will be NMC or HCPC registered with recent clinical experience.
If you are passionate about improving patient care through innovative digital solutions and have the skills and experience required, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Working for our organisation
hank you for your interest in this role.
Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here, and we are the Health Service Journal’s Trust of the Year in 2020.
The Care Quality Commission rated King’s Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall, we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.
Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients; we also care for you.
Our culture of learning, compassion and taking a person-centred approach are at the roots of our organisation. We would love you to join us.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person specification
Knowledge Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to communicate both written and verbally at a level appropriate to the role
- Excellent administration skills
- Excellent time management skills
- Excellent team working skills
- Specialist knowledge of an electronic observations system
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate effective resource management
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Healthcare Professional
- Recognised training, coaching or mentoring qualification or equivalent experience
- Degree or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Continuing professional development/reflective profile
- Formal leadership and management training
- Research training/experience
- ECDL or equivalent
Further Training
Essential criteria
- Evidence of attendance at relevant mandatory training and professional development, events and activities
- Completed IG training to the level appropriate to role
Experience
Essential criteria
- Recent or current experience in clinical practice
- Evidence of ability to mentor
- Demonstrate leadership skills and ability to effectively lead a team
- Demonstrate an ability to prioritise own workload and respond appropriately to urgent situations
- Produce timely, accurate written/electronic records and documents utilising and interpreting complex information
- Ability to manage change efficiently and effectively
- Ability to convey sensitive information in an empathetic manner to patients, relatives/carers and staff
- Evidence of delivering training and assessing either formally or informally
- Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills
- Demonstrate effective written and verbal communciation skills
- Highly motivated and enthusiastic
Desirable criteria
- Audit or research within the clinical area
- Successful implementation and management of a change process
- Evidence of negotiation and influencing skills
- Experience of providing formal teaching sessions
Contractual Requirements
Essential criteria
- Regular attendance
- Willing to work flexible hours when required
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kirsti Tucker
- Job title
- Lead Nurse EPR
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Nicola Charlesworth
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