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Main area
Clinical Informatics
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
241-613CD-26
Employer
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
IT Building, Royal Bolton Hospital
Town
Bolton
Salary
£49,387 - £56,515 pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/10/2026 23:59

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Digital Midwife

NHS AfC: Band 7

 


 

Job overview

The Digital Midwife provides clinical leadership to ensure maternity services are fully represented within the Maternity Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme. Acting as the link between maternity teams and the digital programme, the postholder supports the design, implementation, optimisation, and adoption of the EPR, ensuring clinical workflows, documentation, safety requirements, and reporting needs are accurately reflected.

Working closely with clinical, operational, and digital colleagues, the role translates maternity requirements into effective digital solutions, supporting process redesign, system configuration, testing, training, and user engagement. The Digital Midwife champions digital transformation, promotes best practice, and identifies opportunities to improve patient safety, data quality, information sharing, and service efficiency.

The postholder also contributes to clinical safety assurance, ensuring maternity risks are assessed and mitigated throughout implementation. Following go-live, they will support optimisation, benefits realisation, and continuous improvement activities, helping maternity services maximise the value of the Trust's digital investment and deliver safe, high-quality, person-centred care.

Main duties of the job

  • Work clinically with front line teams in delivering direct patient care as a professionaexpert and role modein the use of clinicainformatics
  • Support the delivery of safe, clinical technology to promote safe, efficient and timely patient care and the Trusts Digital Strategy. 
  • Collaborate and assist the CXIO and Digital Matrons to delivethe best technology to support high quality and safe patient care. 
  • Identify and explore potential system developments which support staff in changing both clinical and administrative practices, underpinninthe delivery omore effective and efficient patient care. 
  • Evaluate as fifor purposthe systems proposed for implementation, representing the views of healthcare professionals across the Trust when designing, testing, and implementing new systems.
  • Act as a key resource to support change in the clinical environment; working alongside clinical colleagues, leading by example to understand challenges and motivate thoswho are reluctant to embrace digital technology and use strength based approaches tenhance the benefitinnovation and new skills wilbring.
  • Use expert clinical and informatics knowledge to lead stakeholder groups to develop current process maps and recommend future ways of working.

Working for our organisation

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is one of the North West’s busiest healthcare providers, delivering high-quality care at Royal Bolton Hospital and across 20+ community sites. Serving around 320,000 people in Bolton and Greater Manchester, the Trust employs over 6,000 staff and is rated ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission. Our services include emergency care, maternity, surgical specialties, and community health, all underpinned by our values: Vision, Openness, Integrity, Compassion, and Excellence.

What We Offer

  • Professional Development – Training opportunities and ongoing learning.
  • Supportive Culture – Collaborative team environment.
  • Impactful Work – Help improve and implement digital tools and technologies to enhance patient care and staff efficiency.
  • Variety & Challenge – EPR changes, clinical safety standards, clinical process mapping, and supporting technical projects.
  • Commitment to Equality & Wellbeing – Thrive in an inclusive, respectful workplace that champions diversity and prioritises your health, and overall wellbeing.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Responsibility for Patient Care 

  • Work clinically with front line teams in delivering direct patient care as a professionaexpert and role modein the use of clinicainformatics 

  • Meeting the needs of patients / citizens and clinical staff by assisting in the provision of safanappropriate innovations and technologies to support high quality and safe care. 

  •  Act as an advocate in promoting and delivering the highest standards of care, ensurinalfundamentals are evidence based and relate to current policy. 
  •  Support the delivery of safe, clinical technology to promote safe, efficient and timely patient care and the Trusts Digital and Clinical Strategy. 
  • Collaborate and assist the CXIO to delivethe best technology to support high quality and safe patient care. 

  • Identify and explore potential system developments which support staff in changing both clinical and administrative practices, underpinninthe delivery omore effective and efficient patient care. 

  • Evaluate as fifor purposthe systems proposed for implementation, representing the views of healthcare professionals across the Trust when designing, testing, and implementing new systems. 

Communications & Leadership Skills 

  • To acquire and maintain detailed knowledge of the clinical systems/applications anprovide clinicaexpertise, advice and support to assist departmentamanagers and colleagues when appropriate. 

  • Provide clinicaexpertise in the development and delivery of training interventionthrough various methods and techniques, including groups and one-to-one training antraining within the workplace which may involve setting up of temporary training areawithin Clinicaareas. 

  • Organise, Lead and deputy-chair the various Trust wide clinical systeoptimisation groups tagree, guide and inforthe Informatics tearegarding updates and changes to nursinoother clinical practice requirements. 

  • Establish and maintain effective communication with alparties in an empathetic anreassuring mannewhen communicating highly sensitive and complex information anadvice. 

  • Act as a key resource to translate complex clinical requirements into technicaspecification. 

  • Act as a key resource to support change in the clinical environment; working alongside clinical colleagues, leading by example to understand challenges and motivate thoswho are reluctant to embrace digital technology and use strength based approaches tenhance the benefitinnovation and new skills wilbring. 

  • Support staff in becoming involved and developing their skills in quality improvement, clinical audit and research relating to the use of clinical systems and digital technology. 

  • Report to the Digital Teams on progress with defineprojects antasks highlighting any variance from the agreed plan, remedial actiorequired and outcomes.

  • Use expert clinical and informatics knowledge to lead stakeholder groups to develop current process maps and recommend future ways of working.

  • Undertake ansupport the development of staff in line with Appraisals, Investor in People and other associated guidance. 

  • Act as an ambassador for Digital Services by developing and maintaining excellenworking relationships with users across the organisation to deliver a high quality, standard IT culture tachieve locarequirements and nationatargets. 

  • Lead  in  the  development  and  maintenance  of  a  culture  of  servic provision  and continuous improvemenfor owareas. 

  • Be responsible for proposing changes to policies, in line with legislation, Trust anNHS policies and guidelines across the Trust, wherappropriate. 

  • Pro-actively lead in ensuring that Digital services delivered within the Trust reflect best practice witrespect to organisational, NHS and legislative requirements and guidelines. 

  • Participate in Information Governance and security as required and ensure appropriate governance and security iown area. 

  • Ensure change management is applied in own areas and follows implemented policies and procedures. 

  • Ensure all documentation relating to own area is complete and fit for purpose and alreleases relatinto hardware, software and documentation is controlled. 

  • Ensure that there is a proactive and comprehensive approach to risk management and be responsible for service continuity for own area and participate ithe Informatics service continuity planning. 

  • Provide clinical leadership to the relevant management, project and deployment teams during thpreparationtraining, implementation and go-live phases of Clinical systems deploymentas well as assisting with the provision of ongoing support to ensure a safe and smoottransition to new applications and business processes; this may be outside of normaoffice hours. 

  • Working collaboratively with clinical stakeholders securing engagement, and commitment to developing and delivering a digital way of working. This must span all healthcarprofessionals involved in patient care. 

  • Lead on the development of Clinical modules and care pathways within an EPR, from a clinical perspective. 

Analytical & Judgemental Skills 

  • Advise and participate in the development and implementation of projects or programmes where requiredto maintain a good understanding of departmental services and ensure the provision of integrated solutions and that user objectives are achieved.   This should include consideratioothe impact on Informatics BAoperationaday to day work. 

  • Manage assigned projects or programmes, and support and co-ordinatthe activities oProject or Programme Boards and Project or Programme Teams, when required, anmaking presentations, where requiredto allevels of staff. 

  • Analyse and triangulate a wide range of data and work with the CXIO and otheClinical, Midwfery and OperationaLeads and their teams to identify opportunities foimplementing improvements. 

  • Utilise expert clinical skills to formulate, analyse and present information that may be complex in relation to service requirements to improve safety, efficiency and effectiveness, communicating this to managers/leaders and others across the Trust 

  • Carry out a ‘gap analysis’ to compare current services and clinical practices with the clinical systems functionality, identifying any system shortfalls, whethethe functionality is fifopurposes’ and changes needed to operational practices. 

Planning & Organisational Skills 

  • Contribute to ongoing development of digital innovation by putting forward expert clinical knowledge and views on opportunities for enhancement and future ways of working. 

  • Work autonomously to plan, prioritise and manage own workload, adjusting activitieand responding quickly and appropriately to safely manage competing issues whilst adhering to deadlines, escalating if necessary to senior teaomanager. 

  • Assist clinical and operational managers in the planning and application of recognised improvement methods to enable change. 

  • Assist with producing and publication of promotionamaterials, including articlesposters, intranet updates, exhibitions and presentations to support new or enhanced software/system requirements. 

  • Work with ProjecManagers, Clinical Leads, Service Improvement staffManagement Accountants, etcto help identify projects thawilrealise benefits supported by Digital developments. 

  • Demonstrate a flexible approach in training provision recognising the 24/7 nature of clinical care and to effectively meet the demands fotraining within the Digital Programme. 

  • Deputise for the Digital Matron wherequired; this may include thtranscriptioand dissemination of minutes/actions. 

  • Provide the CXIO and senior stakeholders with timely digital systems updates and reports regarding key performance indicators as identified in project targets, which in turinforthe Trust Senior ManagementExecutives, and various Boards on Clinical Business change activities. 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Educated to degree level or equivalent experience
  • NMC/HCPC Relevant Professional Qualification
  • Leadership qualification or equivalent experience
  • Teaching / mentorship experience
  • Completion of the essential and intermediate Digital Clinical Safety training
Desirable criteria
  • Masters Degree or equivalent experience
  • Teaching qualification
  • Project Management Qualification
  • Digital Clinical Safety practitioner qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Substantial clinical experience at a senior level in the relevant profession
  • Experience of the use of technology and clinical IT solutions in the clinical environment
  • Recent clinical practice
  • Delivering presentations to large and small groups
  • Teaching and mentoring in clinical practice
  • Experience of leadership/management in a MDT role
  • Patient safety and systems processes; including risk assessment and risk management and Incident Management
  • Recent experience Implementing change, leading a quality improvement initiative/ project
  • Experience working within a Clinical Informatics role
  • Key member of a project team implementing a Heath IT System
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of testing of clinical software and applications prior to deployment
  • Experience as a Clinical Safety Officer
  • Knowledge and broad range of experience with risk management across clinical and technical IT fields including creation and maintenance of risk and issues logs

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Basic and enhanced clinical nursing/ Midwifery/ AHP competence
  • Able to engage colleagues through leadership, passion and effective communication of Trust Digital Strategy and overarching principles
  • Able to obtain and evaluate information including data analysis and audit skills to aid decision making
  • Provide and receive highly complex and sensitive information.
  • Strong and effective management skills, of yourself and others including organising, planning and delivering complex activities
  • The ability to communicate contentious information to an audience that may not be receptive.
  • Can articulate and engage others in a vision for digital as an enabler for improvements in clinical quality, safety, efficiency and effectiveness
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; written, oral and electronic
  • Use of Microsoft Office 365
  • Quality Improvement methodology
  • Ability to engage and support staff in adopting new methods of working.
  • Skilled negotiator, who is able to motivate and persuade if required, using tact and persuasive skills
  • To be highly reflective and learn from experience
Desirable criteria
  • Ability to carry out a root cause analysis within Investigation processes
  • Coaching
  • Skilled in leading digital clinical safety work for projects
  • Experience in informing National, Regional and organisational digital policy including governance structures and processes

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Knowledge of acute and community pathways across nursing, AHP and midwifery
  • In depth knowledge of key national and local strategic priorities relating to safe and quality care delivery
  • Knowledge and understanding of change processes
  • Capabilities and understanding of clinical systems to support the translation and application of complex clinical information into digital technologies
  • Knowledge of existing and emerging technologies applicable to health and clinical practice
  • Understanding of the Digital requirements within the NHS, its related issues, main purpose and benefits
  • Understanding of the IM&T requirements within the NHS, its related issues, main purpose and benefits
  • Understanding of the impacts of healthcare IT systems on clinical practice and patient care
  • Sound knowledge of a risk management process with ability to engage clinicians in the process and effective risk management
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of NHS Informatics and business requirements
  • Knowledge of the DCB0160 and DCB0129 standards
  • Leading on risk management and incident investigation in association to quality governance

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Heather White
Job title
Digital Matron
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01204487658
Additional information

PA Support:

Jo Charlson

[email protected] - internal ext.147658

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