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Job summary
Are you ready to shape the future of healthcare through digital innovation? Join Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust as a Senior Digital Nurse, Midwife, AHP or Pharmacist/ Pharmacy Technician and use your clinical expertise to influence the digital systems that support thousands of patients and staff every day. Youll help design, implement, and improve the digital systems that support clinical care across one of the UKs largest teaching hospitals. The role will focus on: Leading and supporting current digital programmes and transformation initiatives across LTHT. Championing the adoption of digital systems in clinical practice. Providing clinical leadership to optimise the use of technology to improve patient and staff experience.
Main duties of the job
In this role you will act as a digital champion, promoting the benefits of digital ways of working and supporting staff to engage with new technologies and systems. You will maintain active professional registration with your relevant regulatory body and use your clinical experience to help ensure that digital solutions are designed and implemented with the needs of patients, service users and staff in mind. You will contribute to gathering user feedback, identifying opportunities for improvement and helping to ensure that systems and processes are safe, effective and user-friendly. You will support the clinical safety assessment of digital systems and technologies, helping to identify, evaluate and mitigate potential risks to ensure safe and effective use in clinical practice. The post holder will support a range of digital programmes and initiatives, including the ongoing optimisation of digital tools and technologies, and supporting the Digital Back to Basics and Digital Health Check programmes. You will help promote the effective use of digital systems to improve clinical workflows, enhance patient experience and support high-quality care. Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.
About us
The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.
Details
- Date posted: 26 August 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 7
- Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year
- Contract: Fixed term
- Duration: 2 years
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 001955
- Job locations: Cross Site, Leeds, West Yorkshire, LS9 7TF, United Kingdom
Job responsibilities
For questions about this job, contact:
Deborah Hale Deputy Chief Nursing Information Officer deborah.hale@nhs.net Shortlisting Date: 16/17 September Interview Date: 24th September
Job Summary
Are you ready to shape the future of healthcare through digital innovation?
Join Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust as a Senior Digital Nurse, Midwife, AHP or Pharmacist/ Pharmacy Technician and use your clinical expertise to influence the digital systems that support thousands of patients and staff every day. You’ll help design, implement, and improve the digital systems that support clinical care across one of the UK’s largest teaching hospitals.
The role will focus on:
Leading and supporting current digital programmes and transformation initiatives across LTHT.
Championing the adoption of digital systems in clinical practice.
Providing clinical leadership to optimise the use of technology to improve patient and staff experience.
Why you should join our Team
We're looking for an experienced Nurse, Midwife, AHP or Pharmacist/ Pharmacy Technician who is passionate about improving care through technology. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Office of the CCIO and play a key role in delivering digital transformation across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
You'll work at the frontline of digital healthcare, bridging the gap between clinical practice and technology, by being visible and working in clinical environments. Leading a portfolio of digital projects, you'll support the design, implementation and optimisation of electronic health records and other clinical systems, helping staff deliver safer, more effective care.
You will:
Lead and support digital transformation initiatives across the Trust.
Champion the adoption of digital systems in clinical practice.
Work closely with nurses, midwives, AHPs, pharmacists and digital teams.
Provide clinical leadership and digital expertise.
Lead Clinical Safety activities and support compliance with national standards.
Influence how technology improves patient and staff experience.
We're looking for:
A registered Nurse, Midwife, AHP or Pharmacist/ Pharmacy Technician.
Significant clinical experience at Band 6 or above.
Experience of change, improvement, audit or project work.
Strong communication, leadership and influencing skills.
A passion for digital innovation and improving patient care.
This role offers the chance to make a real impact across one of the UK's largest teaching hospitals. You'll work with inspiring clinical and digital leaders, develop specialist expertise in digital healthcare and Clinical Safety, and help shape the future of care for patients across Leeds.
If you are an experienced healthcare professional, digitally confident and ready to lead change we’d love to hear from you!
If you choose to use Al tools to complete your application, please take the time to edit and personalise your application and ensure that the language used reflects your behaviours, ideas and values. We want to understand what you can bring to LTHT and your reasons for applying, not a version of these created by AI. AI is a tool, it is not a replacement for your thoughts, experience and ideas.
What you will bring to the role
In this role you will act as a digital champion, promoting the benefits of digital ways of working and supporting staff to engage with new technologies and systems. You will maintain active professional registration with your relevant regulatory body and use your clinical experience to help ensure that digital solutions are designed and implemented with the needs of patients, service users and staff in mind.
You will contribute to gathering user feedback, identifying opportunities for improvement and helping to ensure that systems and processes are safe, effective and user-friendly. You will support the clinical safety assessment of digital systems and technologies, helping to identify, evaluate and mitigate potential risks to ensure safe and effective use in clinical practice.
The post holder will support a range of digital programmes and initiatives, including the ongoing optimisation of digital tools and technologies, and supporting the Digital Back to Basics and Digital Health Check programmes. You will help promote the effective use of digital systems to improve clinical workflows, enhance patient experience and support high-quality care.
Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.
About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Our Trust values
The Leeds Way is working together to support each other and deliver the best possible care to patients.
We are….
Responsible Open and Honest One Team Kind
Our Trust priorities
Our purpose: Excellent, safe and sustainable care for every patient every time
Our priorities:
People Improvement and Innovation Partnerships Outcomes
Sponsorship Eligibility
To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.
We reserve the right to close this advert early if we receive a high number of suitable applications.
Person specification
Practical Skills
Essential
- Skills in Information Technology
- Good communication skills – written, verbal, and listening
- Able to present and communicate complex messages and information to groups of staff both in person and via video call.
- Effective prioritisation skills and good time management
- Ability to interpret, analyse and present data
- Experience of writing reports
- Influencing and negotiating skills
- Experience in presenting research, service improvement and/or audit
Behaviours/Skills
Essential
- Professional attitude
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Assertive
- Flexible
- Strategic thinker
- Organisational skills
- Deal with patients, professional and non-professional staff with honesty and integrity
- Highly motivated to ensure that service is continually assessed to ensure improved patient outcomes/experience
- Empathetic and sensitive to customer needs (these include both patients and members of NHS staff)
- Strict adherence to patient confidentiality
- Can do attitude
- Public sector values, enthusiastic about making a difference
Other Requirements
Essential
- Able to fulfil Occupational Health requirements for the post (with reasonable adjustments if necessary)
- Ability to work across all Trust sites and work within clinical areas.
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Registered Nurse/Midwife/AHP/Pharmacist/ Pharmacy Technician (level 2) with relevant professional degree, supplemented by specialist training, experience, short courses, CPD to master’s degree level or equivalent
- Committed to continual professional development
Desirable
- Specialist knowledge in Information Technology or Postgraduate qualification
Special Knowledge including experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a Nursing/Midwifery/ AHP or Pharmacy role (band 6 or above)
- Experience and knowledge of the Trust digital transformation strategy and national strategies.
- Experience of audits, project work and managing change
- Management experience
- Knowledge of Clinical Safety and NHSE standards
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