Digital Lead AHP

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust; Scunthorpe; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A NHS Trust in Scunthorpe is looking for a Digital Lead AHP to enhance patient safety within their Electronic Patient Record solution. The successful candidate will lead risk management strategies and collaborate with clinical teams to ensure the safe deployment of digital health technologies. This role demands expertise in clinical risk management and a passion for improving patient safety through digital innovations. Candidates should be ready to engage with diverse teams and facilitate risk management processes.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Commitment to employee wellbeing

Qualifications

• Experienced in clinical risk management within digital health or healthcare IT.
• Knowledgeable about NHS Digital standards (DCB 0129 & DCB 0160).
• Skilled in incident investigation, reporting, and safety case development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and promote patient safety risk management in line with clinical standards.
• Support Digital and Clinical Transformation teams in safe digital practices.
• Develop robust systems to identify patient safety risks in digital health.
• Manage Clinical Risk Management documentation effectively.
• Investigate and resolve clinical safety incidents.
• Conduct compliance audits to ensure adherence to NHS standards.
• Facilitate risk identification workshops for proactive hazard management.

Skills

Clinical risk management experience in digital health or healthcare IT

Knowledge of NHS Digital standards (DCB 0129 & DCB 0160)

Incident investigation and reporting

Liaising with clinical and patient safety teams

Passion for digital innovation to improve patient safety

Job description

Overview

We are seeking a Digital Lead AHP to join our Digital Health team and play a pivotal role in ensuring patient safety across our new Electronic Patient Record (EPR) solution and associated Digital Health Applications and IT Systems.

This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the safe development, deployment, and use of digital health technologies that will transform patient care across the Humber Health Partnership.

If you are interested in joining a forward‑thinking team driving digital transformation in healthcare and want to play a critical role in the safe deployment of our new EPR solution, then this position could be for you.

Key Skills & Experience

• Experienced in clinical risk management within digital health or healthcare IT.
• Knowledgeable about NHS Digital standards (DCB 0129 & DCB 0160).
• Skilled in incident investigation, reporting, and safety case development.
• Confident in liaising with clinical, patient safety, and informatics teams.
• Passionate about improving patient safety through digital innovation.

Role Responsibilities

As Digital Lead AHP, you will:

• Lead and promote patient safety risk management in line with:
  • DCB 0129 – Manufacture of Health IT Systems
  • DCB 0160 – Deployment and Use of Health IT Systems
• Support Digital and Clinical Transformation teams to embed safe digital practices across the organisation.
• Develop and refine robust systems to identify and mitigate patient safety risks in digital health.
• Manage and maintain Clinical Risk Management documentation including:
  • Clinical Risk Management File (CRMF)
  • Clinical Risk Management Plan (CRMP)
  • Hazard Log (HL)
  • Clinical Safety Case & Reports
  • Decommissioning Clinical Safety Case Reports
• Investigate and resolve clinical safety incidents, making recommendations to improve safety.
• Conduct compliance audits (internal and supplier) to ensure adherence to NHS England standards.
• Facilitate risk identification workshops to proactively address hazards in system development and use.
• Provide expert advice and guidance to stakeholders, including attendance at board‑level meetings.
• Monitor compliance with clinical risk management policies and processes across all digital health systems.

About the Humber Health Partnership

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion. Made up of two Trusts – Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – our partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As teaching hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas – biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

Flexible Working

We are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work‑life balance for our employees. Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and supports the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work‑life balance or a multi‑role career. Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee to ensure equality of access to flexible working as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay.

Equal Opportunity

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people's age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

Privacy and Safeguarding

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.

We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers.

Other Information

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.