Lead Digital Nurse - EPR Project

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Goole, Hull and East Yorkshire, Scunthorpe, Grimsby; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent NHS Trust in the UK is looking for two Lead Digital Nurses to enhance patient safety across their Electronic Patient Record solution. Responsibilities include leading risk management for digital health, supporting clinical transformations, and managing documentation. The ideal candidates will possess significant clinical experience and be knowledgeable about NHS Digital standards. Competitive salary offered with flexible working arrangements.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical risk management within digital health.
• Proven leadership skills and experience.
• Continuing professional development evidence required.

Responsibilities

• Lead patient safety risk management for digital health.
• Support clinical transformation to ensure safe practices.
• Manage Clinical Risk Management documentation.

Skills

Clinical risk management

Incident investigation

Patient safety

Liaison with clinical teams

Knowledge of NHS Digital standards

Education

Formal clinical qualification

Post graduate diploma or equivalent

Masters degree or working towards

Job description

Go back Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Lead Digital Nurse - EPR Project

The closing date is 18 December 2025

We are seeking 2 Lead Digital Nurses (1 for South bank and 1 for North bank) 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.

We are looking for someone who is:

• 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.

We value flexibility and inclusivity. All working patterns will be considered, including part-time, flexible working, and other arrangements that support work-life balance.

Main duties of the job

As Lead Digital Nurse, 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 oragnisation.

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)
• 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 us

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 (NLAG) 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.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.

As a Group we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for 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, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well‑being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

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

To learn more about NHS Humber Health Partnership, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website a https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/

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.

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.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

• Formal clinical qualification and post graduate diploma or equivalent
• Evidence of continuing professional development preceptorship
• Evidence of proven leadership skills/experience or relevant qualification
• Masters degree or working towards

Knowledge, Training & Experience

• Significant clinical experience as a senior registered clinician
• Experience of teaching, training and utilising various assessment methods
• Evidence of management experience
• Evidence of adopting Group/Directorate policy into practice, including relevant governance
• Awareness of current technological projects and strategy
• Awareness of governance / quality assurance frameworks and implications on workforce development
• Relevant teaching, presenting or facilitation skills
• An understanding of change management
• Proven change management skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

£55,690 to £62,682 a year per annum pro rata