Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experience digital nurse and qualified clinical safety officer to join the digital nursing team as a digital matron for 12 months. The Digital Matron is a senior clinical leadership role spanning digital and clinical services, providing expert nursing leadership to ensure digital systems are safely designed, implemented and embedded across clinical services. Working as part of the digital clinical team led by the CNIO, the Digital Matron will focus on the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programmes, digital technologies and patient safety, coordinating digital nursing activity across pathways and services. The post holder will be an experienced registered nurse with proven digital expertise who acts as a Clinical Safety Officer, leading clinical risk management, safety assurance and compliance with national standards, while also supporting high‑quality adoption, optimisation and continuous improvement. The Digital Matron provides visible, credible leadership, bridges the gap between frontline practice and digital delivery, and ensures that digital transformation consistently improves patient care, safety and clinical service delivery.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide senior nursing leadership within Digital and Clinical services, ensuring digital transformation is clinically led, safe and aligned to patient‑centred care.
2. Lead the clinical design, implementation, optimisation and adoption of digital systems, with a primary focus on the Electronic Patient Record (EPR) and digital clinical workflows.
3. Act as a Clinical Safety Officer (CSO) for digital systems and sign‑off in line with national standards.
4. Work collaboratively with clinical, operational and digital teams to ensure digital solutions support high‑quality, efficient and safe clinical practice across pathways and services.
5. Coordinate and provide professional oversight of digital nursing activity, ensuring consistency of standards, documentation and workflows across the Trust.
6. Provide visible, credible leadership and expert clinical advice to senior leaders, programme boards and clinical forums.
7. Champion digital innovation and best practice, supporting continuous improvement and optimisation of digital systems post‑go‑live.
8. Support workforce capability and sustainability by providing leadership, guidance and professional development for the digital nursing team.
9. Promote and role‑model Trust values, professional standards and regulatory requirements, acting in accordance with the NMC Code and Trust policies at all times.
Working for our organisation
Why colleagues think we are
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
10. Registered Nurse
11. Masters or working toward or substantial clinical experience
12. evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
13. Project management experience/training
14. Clinical safety officer accreditation
Experience
Essential criteria
15. Post registration clinical experience
16. Experience working with healthcare IT systems
17. Service development experience
Desirable criteria
18. Previous experience as a digital nurse
Skills
Essential criteria
19. Ability to draw together complex information
20. Up to date evidence based knowledge of current clinical professional issues
21. Change management skills
22. Good working knowledge of MS 365
23. proven leadership skills
24. excellent report writing ad investigation skills
Desirable criteria
25. in depth knowledge of national digital agenda
26. in depth understanding of clinical safety requirements
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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