Digital Lead Midwife | Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Posting date:	03 March 2026
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	02 April 2026
Location:	Grimsby, DN33 2BA
Company:	Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Trust
Job type:	Contract
Job reference:	7841913/208-43FE10-26-1

Summary

As the Midwife Lead, you will manage and oversee the Maternity Electronic Patient Record (EPR) system, ensuring its effective operation, sustainability, and ongoing development. You will lead service delivery, support colleagues, and provide expert guidance to optimise the use of the system across the Trust.

You will deliver user training, system enhancements, and configuration changes, ensuring the clinical record meets the highest standards. Working collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team, you will provide expert advice on system functionality, integration with other health solutions, and the implementation of best practice.

You will undertake audits and produce reports on system utilisation, interpreting findings to inform improvements and corrective actions to maintain professional and organisational standards. The role requires highly developed clinical and technical skills, including precision, coordination, and the ability to convey complex information clearly to staff at all levels.

The Digital Lead Midwife provides strategic and clinical leadership for the maternity digital agenda, ensuring systems are safe, effective, and fully integrated across the Trust. Acting as the expert resource on maternity digital developments, the role represents the Trust at regional and national forums and aligns initiatives with guidance such asBetter Births.

The post-holder leads the implementation, optimisation, and management of the Maternity IT system, supporting safe, evidence-based care. Responsibilities include evaluating system functionality, addressing data quality issues, overseeing reporting and national submissions, ensuring GDPR compliance, managing digital risks, investigating incidents, and maintaining business continuity.

The role drives digital transformation and engagement with electronic maternity records, collaborating with clinical leads, senior management, IT teams, suppliers, and governance colleagues to ensure systems are fit for purpose, sustainable, and aligned with the Trust’s digital roadmap. This includes contributing to business cases, managing contracts, and overseeing digital budgets.

Providing professional leadership, the post-holder supports and motivates staff, ensures training, disseminates updates, and acts as an escalation point. Through effective communication and collaboration, the role enables safe, efficient, and innovative maternity care, supporting service excellence, governance, and continuous improvement.

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.

The Digital Lead Midwife provides strategic and clinical leadership for the maternity digital agenda, ensuring that digital systems are safe, effective, and fully integrated within the wider Trust infrastructure. The role acts as the Trust’s expert resource on maternity digital developments, representing the organisation at regional and national forums and aligning initiatives with national guidance such as theBetter Birthsreview.

The post-holder leads the implementation, optimisation, and management of the Maternity IT system across sites, supporting high-quality, evidence-based clinical care and enhancing patient safety. Responsibilities include evaluating system functionality, addressing data quality issues, overseeing reporting and national data submissions, and ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, including GDPR. The role proactively manages digital risks, investigates incidents, and ensures robust business continuity planning is in place.

A key focus is driving digital transformation and embedding a culture of engagement with electronic maternity records. The post-holder collaborates with clinical leads, senior management, IT teams, suppliers, and governance colleagues to ensure systems are fit for purpose, sustainable, and aligned with the Trust’s digital roadmap. This includes contributing to business cases, managing contractual obligations, and overseeing digital budgets.

The Digital Lead Midwife provides professional leadership, supporting and motivating staff in the use of digital technology. Responsibilities include ensuring appropriate training, disseminating system updates, and acting as an escalation point for digital or clinical queries. Through effective communication and collaboration, the role enables safe, efficient, and innovative maternity care, supporting service excellence, governance, and continuous improvement.

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

As a Trust 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 people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website athttps://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/

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“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.


This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Mar 2026