Digital Practitioner - 18 month secondment

Role overview

The Royal United Hospitals Bath is looking for a Digital Practitioner to support the safe, effective use of digital platforms across clinical services. Working within the Digital Clinical Team, this role brings profession-specific clinical insight from nursing, midwifery or allied health professions into the design, rollout, refinement and uptake of digital tools, including the Electronic Patient Record.

This post sits at the intersection of clinical care and digital delivery, helping ensure technology strengthens patient safety, supports efficient workflows, improves data quality, and enhances the experience of both patients and staff. The successful person will also help build confidence in digital working, support engagement and training, and contribute to readiness for major digital change.

This is a fixed-term, part-time development opportunity intended to grow future digital capability and support succession planning across nursing, midwifery and AHP careers. No previous formal digital post is required; clinicians with an interest in digital practice and a desire to develop are encouraged to apply.

Main duties

• Provide profession-specific clinical input to digital projects, helping shape the design, configuration and deployment of systems such as the Electronic Patient Record.
• Act as a connector between ward and department teams and digital specialists so that systems support safe, efficient and practical clinical work.
• Support staff adoption by offering hands-on, visible help in clinical areas and building confidence in digital tools.
• Work with services to strengthen documentation standards and improve the quality of clinical data.
• Help teams use digital systems to improve services, streamline processes and embed new ways of working.
• Raise and help resolve digital or data issues through the relevant clinical and governance channels.
• Support preparation, rollout and stabilisation of major digital changes across the organisation.
• Keep professional registration current and continue developing knowledge in digital transformation, clinical safety and quality improvement.

Further responsibilities

• Contribute clinical expertise within projects and programmes to support safe system build and implementation.
• Work with clinical, digital and operational colleagues to make sure solutions meet service needs and improve care quality.
• Take part in engagement activity and serve as a point of contact between frontline staff and digital teams.
• Support review and redesign of clinical processes where change will improve practice.
• Help services realise benefits from digital change by supporting adoption and understanding of new ways of working.
• Use quality improvement methods to support optimisation and service improvement.
• Contribute to reporting, risk management and assurance activity as needed.

Professional development and education

• Help colleagues build confidence and competence in the use of electronic patient records and related digital tools.
• Identify training needs and support delivery of suitable guidance and education.
• Offer approachable, on-the-ground support in clinical settings, including coaching to improve documentation and data quality.
• Support the creation and development of super-users or digital champions.
• Maintain NMC or HCPC registration, as appropriate, and ongoing professional development.
• Expand knowledge of relevant digital systems and keep up with emerging digital developments.
• Participate in learning linked to digital transformation, clinical safety, data quality and service improvement.

About the trust

The trust is part of the BSW Hospitals Group, a partnership between Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust, Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust. Together, the group employs more than 17,600 colleagues and manages a budget of 1.6 billion to deliver care to over 1 million people.

The organisation is working toward a health and care system that reduces inequalities in access, experience and outcomes, improves colleague experience and tackles shared challenges such as sustainability and finance. It values compassionate, inclusive working, with kindness, diversity and staff wellbeing strongly promoted.

Bath is presented as a place to live and work, with staff benefits available and ongoing development through major initiatives such as the Dyson Cancer Centre and research activity.

Requirements and applicant notes

• Applicants must hold appropriate UK professional registration.
• The role is open only to registered healthcare professionals with current NMC or HCPC registration, depending on profession.
• Experience in a clinical setting within nursing, midwifery or allied health is required.
• A solid understanding of clinical workflows and multidisciplinary working is needed.
• Experience using electronic patient record systems or other digital clinical systems in practice is expected.
• Applicants should show digital confidence and the ability to adapt to new systems and ways of working.
• Experience supporting colleagues through changes to practice, systems or processes is essential.
• Evidence of involvement in service improvement, quality improvement or change activity is required.
• Strong communication skills are needed to explain digital concepts clearly to non-technical clinical colleagues.
• The ability to work collaboratively across clinical and non-clinical teams is essential.
• Candidates must be able to juggle priorities and work well in a changing environment.
• A clear commitment to patient safety, data quality and continuous learning is expected.
• Because of current UK immigration and visa rules, candidates without the right to work in the UK may not be considered unless an alternative right-to-work solution is available. Those needing sponsorship, including people whose visa may require sponsorship later, are advised to check the government guidance before applying.
• This post is subject to DBS disclosure under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 exceptions and related amendments.

Additional information

Informal enquiries can be directed to Liz Staveacre, Chief Nursing Information Officer, at [email protected] or 07931385044.

Documents available include a role profile for the Digital Practitioner - Nurse and an information leaflet titled Join the RUH.

The vacancy is described as an 18 month secondment and a development opportunity. It is fixed term and part time.

Internal reference content notes that the role supports succession planning within nursing, midwifery and AHP professions.

There is no stated salary or stipend amount provided in the source.

There is no stated number of openings provided in the source.

No start date, application deadline or internship duration is listed in the source.

Employment is based onsite in Bath, England, United Kingdom.

This role is not an internship.