Band 7 Digital Nurse Lead | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

University Hospitals of Leicester; England; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Digital Clinical Lead to spearhead digital health initiatives across nursing teams. This senior leadership role involves managing a team, developing digital strategies and ensuring the integration of technology to enhance patient care quality. Responsibilities include collaboration with IT teams, ensuring compliance with health standards, and promoting digital tools for clinical audits. The ideal candidate must demonstrate strong leadership and strategic skills in a digital health context.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of digital clinical staff.
• Develop and implement digital nursing strategies aligned with organizational goals.
• Ensure clinical practice meets professional standards and compliance.
• Support monitoring of digital KPIs and clinical outcomes.

Skills

Digital leadership

Team management

Collaboration with clinical teams

Digital literacy

Tools

EHR systems

Remote monitoring tools

Decision support systems

SystemOne

Job description

Job Overview

The Digital Clinical Lead is a senior clinical leader responsible for spearheading the adoption, integration, and optimisation of digital technologies across nursing and wider multidisciplinary teams. This pivotal role ensures that digital health initiatives are designed and delivered to improve patient outcomes, enhance clinical workflows, and support the transformation of care delivery.

Band & Hours

Band 7, 37.5 hours per week.

Base

Primary base at Leicester Royal Infirmary Site, with flexibility across Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester General Hospital and Glenfield Hospital.

Reports to

Digital Matron.

Accountable to

Chief Nurse Information Officer.

Core Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of digital clinical staff.
• Provide strategic direction and operational oversight for digital health initiatives.
• Collaborate with clinical and IT teams to implement and optimise solutions such as EHRs, remote monitoring, virtual care, mobile apps, and decision support systems.
• Represent nursing in digital projects, ensuring clinical needs are aligned with technical capabilities.
• Champion digital literacy and capability‑building across the nursing workforce.
• Influence digital policy, contribute to governance structures, and support change management.
• Foster a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Line‑manage the Digital Clinical Team, addressing performance, attendance, training and appraisal in accordance with Trust policy.
• Lead the nursing digital transformation agenda across departments and care settings.
• Ensure clinical practice supported by digital technology meets professional standards and is compliant with the NMC Code.

Key Working Relationships

• Digital Matron
• Chief Nurse Information Officer
• Heads of Nursing/CMG Leads
• Non‑clinical managers
• IM&T Teams
• Business partners
• LPT

Key Result Areas

• Work in a strong and effective corporate manner with key stakeholders.
• Develop and implement digital nursing strategies aligned with organisational goals.
• Act as the senior clinical lead for digital projects, ensuring alignment with patient safety.
• Represent nursing perspectives in IT governance, planning and decision‑making forums.
• Lead and manage the delivery of assigned projects on time and within budget, setting goals, objectives, resources, milestones and measures of success.
• Ensure benefit realisation and change‑management processes are integral to project management.
• Help achieve maximum functionality from existing clinical IT systems.
• Promote the use of digital tools for data‑driven decision making and clinical audits.
• Ensure integrity, accuracy and security of patient data within digital systems.
• Support monitoring of digital KPIs, clinical outcomes, and user satisfaction.
• Provide day‑to‑day support for users diagnosing and remedying errors timely with IT helpdesk and system suppliers.
• Act as a leader for change.

Governance & Compliance

• Investigate clinical incident reports, complaints and concerns relating to Clinical IT systems.
• Champion GDPR compliance and maintain security of patient data.
• Ensure effective communication between users, support teams and senior managers.
• Contribute to managing risks and issues to ensure clinical safety.
• Assess risks, develop Clinical Safety Case hazard logs and contribute to reports.

Patient & Customer Service

• Ensure service user engagement during development, implementation and review of digital technology.

General Responsibilities

• Support clinical staff with use of IT systems such as E3, ICE, Nervecentre, SystemOne, Badgernet.
• Participate in development of Digital Documentation for Nursing, Midwifery and AHPs.
• Attend relevant IT system meetings and disseminate information.
• Assist in training staff with new IT systems and developments.

Professional Development

Maintain compliance with all statutory and mandatory training requirements.

Further Information

Link to Trust policies and procedures: https://secure.library.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/PAGL/SitePages/Home.aspx

Application Deadline

This advert closes on Wednesday 31 Dec 2025.