Overview
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.
Key Responsibilities
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 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, you will represent the Trust at regional and national forums and align initiatives with guidance such as Better 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.
About the 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 serves 1.65 million people and employs nearly 20,000 staff across five main hospital sites.
As teaching hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we lead and contribute to research in many areas, including biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
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. We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all.
We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers. In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, visit our recruitment website.
Flexible Working
We support and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health, wellbeing and work‑life balance for our employees. 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.
For new employees starting work with us, the cost of their DBS check, if required for their role, will be charged to the employee.
This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Mar 2026.
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