Digital Midwife

Bolton Nhs Foundation Trust; Farnworth; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Digital Midwife to provide clinical leadership within the Maternity EPR programme. The postholder will translate maternity requirements into effective digital solutions, support design, implementation, optimisation, training and adoption, and collaborate with clinical, operational and digital colleagues to ensure safe, high-quality, person-centred care.

The role champions digital transformation, promotes best practice, and leads on change management,

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical teams in adopting and optimising clinical informatics within maternity services.
• Collaborate with CXIO, Digital Matrons and frontline staff to deliver safe, efficient, patient-centred care through digital tools.
• Evaluate and shape system developments to support clinical and administrative workflows.
• Translate complex maternity requirements into technical specifications and test plans.
• Support change management, training, and benefits realisation during EPR implementation.

Job description

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.

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.

Key Responsibilities

• Work clinically with front line teams in delivering direct patient care as a professional expert and role model in the use of clinical informatics
• Support the delivery of safe, clinical technology to promote safe, efficient and timely patient care and the Trust's Digital Strategy.
• Collaborate and assist the CXIO and Digital Matrons to deliver the 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, underpinning the delivery of more effective and efficient patient care.
• Evaluate as fit for purpose the 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 those who are reluctant to embrace digital technology and use strength based approaches to enhance the benefits innovation and new skills will bring.
• Use expert clinical and informatics knowledge to lead stakeholder groups to develop current process maps and recommend future ways of working.

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.

Responsibility for Patient Care

• Work clinically with front line teams in delivering direct patient care as a professional expert and role model in the use of clinical informatics
• Meeting the needs of patients / citizens and clinical staff by assisting in the provision of safe and appropriate innovations and technologies to support high quality and safe care.
• Act as an advocate in promoting and delivering the highest standards of care, ensuring all fundamentals 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 Trust's Digital and Clinical Strategy.
• Collaborate and assist the CXIO to deliver the 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, underpinning the delivery of more effective and efficient patient care.
• Evaluate as fit for purpose the 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 and provide clinical expertise, advice and support to assist departmental managers and colleagues when appropriate.
• Provide clinical expertise in the development and delivery of training interventions through various methods and techniques, including groups and one-to-one training and training within the workplace which may involve setting up of temporary training areas within Clinical areas.
• Organise, Lead and deputy-chair the various Trust wide clinical system optimisation groups to agree, guide and inform the Informatics team regarding updates and changes to nursing or other clinical practice requirements.
• Establish and maintain effective communication with all parties in an empathetic and reassuring manner when communicating highly sensitive and complex information and advice.
• Act as a key resource to translate complex clinical requirements into technical specification.
• Act as a key resource to support change in the clinical environment; working alongside clinical colleagues, leading by example to understand challenges and motivate those who are reluctant to embrace digital technology and use strength based approaches to enhance the benefits innovation and new skills will bring.
• 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 defined projects and tasks highlighting any variance from the agreed plan, remedial action required and outcomes.
• Use expert clinical and informatics knowledge to lead stakeholder groups to develop current process maps and recommend future ways of working.
• Undertake and support 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 excellent working relationships with users across the organisation to deliver a high quality, standard IT culture to achieve local requirements and national targets.
• Lead in the development and maintenance of a culture of service provision and continuous improvement for own areas.
• Be responsible for proposing changes to policies, in line with legislation, Trust and NHS policies and guidelines across the Trust, where appropriate.
• Pro-actively lead in ensuring that Digital services delivered within the Trust reflect best practice with respect to organisational, NHS and legislative requirements and guidelines.
• Participate in Information Governance and security as required and ensure appropriate governance and security in own 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 all releases relating to 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 in the Informatics service continuity planning.
• Provide clinical leadership to the relevant management, project and deployment teams during the preparation, training, implementation and go-live phases of Clinical systems deployment, as well as assisting with the provision of ongoing support to ensure a safe and smooth transition to new applications and business processes; this may be outside of normal office hours.
• Working collaboratively with clinical stakeholders securing engagement, and commitment to developing and delivering a digital way of working. This must span all healthcare professionals 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 required, to maintain a good understanding of departmental services and ensure the provision of integrated solutions and that user objectives are achieved. This should include consideration of the impact on Informatics BAU operational day to day work.
• Manage assigned projects or programmes, and support and co-ordinate the activities of Project or Programme Boards and Project or Programme Teams, when required, and making presentations, where required, to all levels of staff.
• Analyse and triangulate a wide range of data and work with the CXIO and other Clinical,Midwferyand Operational Leads and their teams to identify opportunities for implementing 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, whether the functionality is 'fit for purposes' 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 activities and responding quickly and appropriately to safely manage competing issues whilst adhering to deadlines, escalating if necessary to senior team or manager.
• Assist clinical and operational managers in the planning and application of recognised improvement methods to enable change.
• Assist with producing and publication of promotional materials, including articles, posters, intranet updates, exhibitions and presentations to support new or enhanced software/system requirements.
• Work with Project Managers, Clinical Leads, Service Improvement staff, Management Accountants, etc. to help identify projects that will realise 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 for training within the Digital Programme.
• Deputise for the Digital Matron when required; this may include the transcription and 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 turn inform the Trust Senior Management, Executives, and various Boards on Clinical Business change activities.