Lead Digital Nurse - EPR Project | Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust; Goole, Hull and East Yorkshire, Scunthorpe, Grimsby; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is seeking 2 Lead Digital Nurses to ensure patient safety across digital health technologies and transform care delivery. Responsibilities include leading clinical risk management, supporting digital practices, and investigating incidents. Ideal candidates should have experience in clinical risk management and knowledge of NHS Digital standards. The role offers flexible working patterns to support work-life balance. Applications are welcome from all backgrounds, reflecting the commitment to inclusivity.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical risk management within digital health or healthcare IT.
• Familiarity with NHS Digital standards (DCB 0129 & DCB 0160).
• Skilled in incident investigation and safety case development.

Responsibilities

• Lead patient safety risk management in line with DCB 0129 and DCB 0160.
• Support integration of safe digital practices across the organisation.
• Investigate and resolve clinical safety incidents to improve patient safety.

Skills

Experience in clinical risk management

Knowledge of NHS Digital standards

Incident investigation skills

Liaison with clinical teams

Passion for digital innovation

Job description

Overview

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, 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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 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 (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.

Culture and Working Arrangements

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. We are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, which will positively impact the care we provide. Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise it is a key contributor for recruitment and retention of our employees.

We 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 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 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.

Equal Opportunity and Data Privacy

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. We support the physical and mental health and well-being of all staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution and supports us to be an Employer of Choice and enable effective care of our patients. We value diverse perspectives and ideas and welcome applications irrespective of 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 the benefits on offer to employees, please visit our recruitment website at 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 note: all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

This advert closes on Thursday 18 Dec 2025