Digital Lead Midwife
| Posting date: | 03 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 17 March 2026 |
| Location: | Grimsby, DN33 2BA |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9208-26-0101 |
Summary
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 Trusts expert resource on maternity digital developments, representing the organisation at regional and national forums and aligning initiatives with national guidance such as the Better Births review. 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 Trusts 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 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 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 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 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.