Digital Midwife, Band 6

Job summary

Digital Midwife, Band 6 (15 hours a week)

This exciting post is for a digital midwife to be recruited to provide support, coordination, facilitation, evaluation and improvement across the digital maternity work streams.

This post is aimed at a registered midwife with data management and informatics skills, to support health and care services to improve the outcomes for pregnant women and address health inequalities.

The role will support the design and implementation of national digital programmes, oversee the tracking of progress against digital transformation plans and develop a networked approach to enable digital transformation.

The post holder will act as an autonomous, accountable practitioner working on their own initiative and in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team but visible to the staff and working alongside midwives in their day-to-day settings.

They will be an expert and will take responsibility for the day-to-day system administration of the maternity section of the electronic health records system in conjunction with the Lead Digital Midwife. This will include participation in its technological development, as required to fulfil the needs of the maternity service within hospital and community settings.

The post holder will support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, and a key element within the role will be ensuring quality data is submitted to inform trends and service improvement.

Main duties of the job

Support the design and implementation of national digital programmes, overseeing the tracking and progress against digital transformation plans, and developing a networked approach to enable digital transformation.

Act as an autonomous, accountable practitioner working on their own initiative and in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team but visible to the staff and working alongside midwives in their day-to-day settings.

Take responsibility for the day-to-day system administration of the maternity section of the electronic health records system in conjunction with the Lead Digital Midwife. This will include participation in its technological development, as required to fulfil the needs of the maternity service within hospital and community settings.

Support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, and a key element within the role will be ensuring quality data is submitted to inform trends and service improvement.

About us

Our team is dynamic and constantly evolving to manage the demand and challenges of the service. We work closely together to ensure a friendly, positive and supportive environment whilst recognizing individual development needs.

The Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county. And with over 9,000 staff, we're one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a huge range of opportunities and benefits in a genuinely supportive working environment.Maternity services at Gloucestershire hospitals offer a full range of services to support the women of Gloucestershire. We deliver around 6000 babies a year across our two free-standing birth units, an along-side birth unit, home births and an Obstetric unit, offering midwives the opportunity to work in a variety of settings in our community services, birth units and Delivery Suite.

Details

Date posted

30 October 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year (pa pro rata if part-time)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

318-25-T0682

Job locations

Gloucestershire Royal Hospital

Great Western Road

Gloucester

GL1 3NN

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