Digital Clinical Specialist Midwife (Senior Manager)

Job summary
Are you an experienced senior midwife with a passion for digital innovation and improving patient care? This is an exciting opportunity to join Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, supporting maternity services across a newly formed acute hospital trust.

As our Senior Digital Clinical Specialist Midwife , you will provide clinical leadership for digital solutions that improve patient safety, outcomes and staff experience, ensuring systems are safe, user-focused and embedded into everyday practice.

You will support major digital programmes, align maternity services, champion innovation and translate clinical needs into digital solutions for patients and frontline teams.

The role also includes leadership and line management of Digital Clinical Specialists, mentoring colleagues, promoting continuous improvement and ensuring robust clinical governance and risk management underpin all digital developments.

We are looking for a registered midwife with senior leadership capability, experience of digital transformation within an acute healthcare setting, and proven skills in stakeholder engagement, influencing change, and patient safety.

If you are passionate about using technology to improve maternity care, empower clinical teams and make a lasting impact, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job
This senior clinical digital leadership role supports delivery of the organisation's Digital Strategy, ensuring digital solutions improve patient care, safety and clinical outcomes. Reporting to the Lead Digital Clinical Specialist, the post holder will provide expert clinical advice and leadership across digital transformation programmes, including the Electronic Patient Record (EPR).

As the Senior Digital Clinical Specialist Midwife, they will help design, implement and optimise digital systems, ensuring solutions are clinically safe, user-centred and aligned to service needs. The role will drive the adoption of digital ways of working, support clinicians in embedding technology into practice and maximise the benefits of digital investment.

The post holder will also contribute to the leadership and development of the Digital Clinical Specialist workforce through mentoring, line management and professional support. They will champion innovation, continuous improvement, strong clinical governance and a digitally enabled culture across the organisation.

About us
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of 2.6 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom.

Chaired by Ingrid Barker and led by Maria Kane as Chief Executive, Bristol NHS Foundation Trust aims to transform the way healthcare is delivered locally with a clear focus on making a difference for what we call our Four Ps:

• Better outcomes for our Patients
• More opportunities for our People
• Fairer more consistent care for our Population
• Best Value for Public Purse

Our vision for five years from now:

• Patients will wait less time to be diagnosed and treated, and they will have the same high-quality experience and outcomes, regardless of who they are or where they live.
• We will meet rising demand by maximising the use of our available resources.
• More care will be delivered nearer to patients, in their homes or the community.
• Digital technologies will have transformed the way we work and the way we deliver care.
• Our people will feel engaged, energised and empowered by their work.
• We will be known as a place where people enjoy working, training and building a career.
• Our volume of globally renowned research and innovation will have grown significantly.
• We will contribute to system financial balance

Details
Date posted: 24 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year
Per Annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 387-TS4019-SC
Job locations: Digital HQ, 40 Southwell Street, Bristol, BS2 8EJ, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person Specification
Training, Knowledge and Experience
Essential

• Experience of working as a ward sister, senior midwife,
• Experience as a Digital Clinical Specialist Midwife in an acute hospital setting
• Experience of patient safety processes: responsibility for clinical risk management in a defined area of work
• Organisation development: understanding of the requirements of an information culture and emerging technologies
• Professional registration (NMC)
• Post Registration qualification / Post Graduate diploma and training
• Accredited Clinical Safety Officer or actively working towards attaining this

Communication Skills
Essential

• Excellent communication skills
• Successful influencer and negotiator: able to persuade clinicians to engage with, implement and embed change to achieve successful outcomes

Analytical Skills
Essential

• Benefits management: able to identify and articulate the benefits of information-enabled change and drive through these benefits
• Able to evaluate and report on the team's operational delivery, demonstrating the value and impact of their contribution to digital services and organisational priorities.
• Able to analyse and interpret complex information and present to non-experts in an understandable way
• Able to display information in a way that demonstrates change and benefits in both written reports and easier to digest formats e.g. a poster

Planning Skills
Essential

• Experience of acting as a key contributor to hospital-based digital projects (also relevant here for planning input)
• Experience of working on multiple programmes of work that impact across an organisation
• Management of competing priorities
• Benefits management: applying planning to realise and embed benefits

Management Skills
Essential

• Experienced healthcare practitioner with experience of leading teams or people (also cross-over with Training/Experience)
• Develops themselves and the team with a commitment to develop and educate clinical colleagues
• Ability to appreciate the needs of others and lead with empathy and compassion
• Matrix management across programmes of work and digital services

Additional Information
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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Digital HQ, 40 Southwell Street, Bristol, BS2 8EJ, United Kingdom
Employer's website: (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Lead Digital Clinical Specialist
Claire Worgan
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