Job Overview
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM STAFF CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY BETSI CADWALADR UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD.
This post is a secondment until 31/03/2026 due to funding.
If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.
This is a unique opportunity for an experienced, forward-thinking midwife to help transform maternity care across Wales. As a Midwifery Informatics Specialist seconded to the Digital Maternity project, you’ll help design and implement a digital system that improves care for women, families, and clinicians.
Combining clinical expertise with a passion for innovation, you’ll work with multi-disciplinary teams, service users, and suppliers to ensure midwifery practice stays central to the transformation.
Based across BCUHB, the role is full-time, working Monday to Friday, 9:00–5:00, with flexibility required during training and implementation phases.
Key responsibilities include supporting and training maternity staff, building digital confidence, and ensuring the system is safe, effective, and widely adopted.
This is your chance to influence digital maternity care, align systems with clinical practice, lead digital adoption, empower users with better tools, and connect clinical excellence with innovation.
Main duties of the job
The Informatics Clinical Midwife Specialist will assist in the development and implementation of digital systems as part of the electronic patient record.
The post holder as an experienced registered nurse/midwife will be accountable to the BCUHB Senior Lead Nursing /Midwifery Informatics Specialist.
The post holder will assist with decision making and support the leadership, development supporting implementation of digital systems in BCUHB.
The post holder will work collaboratively across BCUHB and NHS with clinical and technical staff.
The aim of the digitisation programme is to improve patient care, experience and outcomes through the development of high-quality information, systems and technologies, applying the ‘Once for Wales’ principles.
The principal objective for the post is to assist in the modernisation of health service delivery, promoting new ways of working utilising information technology to improve access to clinical information and knowledge to enhance shared decision-making regarding patient care.
The post holder will assist the Informatics Lead Nurse/Midwife in representing the organisation in setting the strategic direction and operationalisation across NHS Wales with the national project teams.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
If you relish a challenge, have a passion to help others or simply fancy a fresh start, then Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board (BCUHB) North Wales, has all the right ingredients. The largest health organisation in Wales, providing a full range of primary, community, mental health, acute and elective hospital services for a population of around 700,000, across North Wales . Join our team and get the support you need, in line with our Organisational Values and ‘Proud to Lead’ competence framework.
Enjoy being part of working with engaged leadership at all levels, and be assured we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and are proud to welcome applicants under the “Disability Confident Employer” scheme.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Applications may be submitted in Welsh. Applications submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
The post holder will:
- Work as a senior operational lead with specialist knowledge and close working with the BCUHB Chief Nursing Information Officer and clinicians to integrate the clinical/nursing documentation framework across BCUHB.
- Regularly monitors and reviews plans, adjusting for change considering local need and response to changes in national policy or health board strategies.
- Communicate, translate and evaluate complex information to nursing, midwifery, information technology professionals and the wider multidisciplinary team to support the wider development and transition to digital ways of working.
- Develop and maintain open communication among clinical user groups to seek feedback and determine issues or problem areas at UHB level.
- Work in collaboration with clinical applications project sponsors, project leaders and analysts throughout at UHB level to communicate the Once for Wales principle.
- Attend relevant national forums relating to nursing/maternity informatics as a nursing/midwifery representative for BCUHB.
- Work in Partnership with Trade Union Partners.
- Plan and deliver information gathering workshops with end users and departments for information needs and requirements in the development of digital systems, nursing documentation, e patient flow and e prescribing at UHB level.
- Work alongside BCUHB stakeholders on quality assurance activities, such as testing software products for patient safety and provide specialist input to ensure that these adequately meet clinical/nursing/midwifery requirements. Ensure that feedback is provided to inform information systems development accordingly to meet user needs.
- Develop and implement BCUHB communications strategies to provide support with relevant changes in practice that will need to be made as a result of specific system changes.
- Plan and deliver educational sessions to nursing and the wider multi-disciplinary team to support safe and effective use of digital systems.
- Produce and present complex presentations / reports on the project to relevant BCUHB Stakeholders (including executive leads).
- Analyse and interpret complex data to create reports of various project activities and share with BCU Stakeholders.
- Propose changes to practices, produce policies and standard operating practices as required for the new project.
- Promotes and secure value for money ensuring that the project operates in a cost-efficient manner.
- Where Welsh government funding has been allocated, the post holder will monitor the spend in its entirety within the timeframes that have been allotted
- Have considerable autonomy to organise their own workload and act on their own initiative to deliver the delegated project aims. They will provide specialist advice organisationally on delivering digital systems that involve a variety of multi-disciplinary teams throughout BCUHB services.
The post holder will lead Quality Assurance and Improvement through:
Design
- Inform the development and provide advice regarding digital systems at local and national level. This will involve close collaboration with a range of professional clinical experts and senior nursing leads at UHB level.
- Use nursing/midwifery research and evidence-based nursing/midwifery knowledge into related nursing/maternity informatics practice and programmes.
- Understand the impact of regulatory requirements to interpret them for clinical applications to ensure safe effective patient care.
- Work independently as a collaborative member of the national project team and BCUHB to confirm information standards, professional’s data definitions and standards and support staff with data entry in all digital clinical applications.
Person specification
Qualifications And Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse/Midwife with Nursing & Midwifery Council.
- Nursing/Midwifery degree or equivalent training and experience
- Completion of relevant post graduate diploma/ level 6 module.
- Evidence of continued training and experience.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Informatics and/ or project related experience
Experience
Essential criteria
- Range of post registration experience
- Experience in delivering training and facilitation.
- Experience of Quality Assurance undertaking audits, including documentation.
- Experience of applying NHS Wales Health & Care standards into practice.
Skills And Attributes
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills and interpersonal skills.
- Effective presentation skills.
- Ability to work effectively within the wider multi-disciplinary team.
- Computer literate and able to apply Microsoft Office, Excel, and Microsoft Project.
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in
Values
Essential Criteria
- Ability to multi-task.
- Ability to deliver work plans in a timely manner.
- Demonstrable ability to provide inspirational leadership and positivity regarding the digitalisation agenda.
Other
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to provide inspirational leadership and positivity regarding the digitalisation agenda.
- Able to travel in a timely manner to meet the local and national requirements of the post.
