Deputy Chief Nurse - Digital Transformation

Deputy Chief Nurse - Digital Transformation

At NHS Blood & Transplant (NHSBT), we provide a service that is unique. We work with both patients and donors alike to save and improve lives every single day. Our ambition is to save and improve more lives and to enable us to do this we are embarking on several critical programmes of digital transformation.

We are looking for a Deputy Chief Nurse- Clinical Digital Transformation to join the Donor and Session Platform (DASP) programme. DASP is a critical digitally led transformation programme to truly transform how donors engage with NHSBT to ensure equitable access, enhanced safety, and resilient supply chains for lifesaving blood and plasma products. This is a key role for the programme, and you will be joining us at inception stage, enabling you to have full impact on delivery.

As our Deputy Chief Nurse Clinical Digital Transformation, you will be accountable for providing effective and highly visible leadership for Clinical digital change for Blood and Plasma Directorate programmes and transformation, including all derivative workstreams of the Donor and Session Programme (DASP) portfolio.

Main duties of the job

You will

• Lead the strategic planning and development of clinical change, nursing programmes, professional standards, and excellence in care quality, embedding best practice across Blood Supply, donor experience, and organisational strategy.
• Act as a senior clinical representative to regulators, professional bodies, donor groups, and staff representatives, ensuring transparency, data protection, and compliance with governance and safety standards.
• Work with subject matter experts to provide clinical and nursing advice on digital issues to senior management, the NHSBT Board, and subcommittees, contributing to strategy, business planning, and service modernisation.
• Define new clinical roles and competency frameworks, approving training and simulation-based assessments to support digital skills and psychological safety.
• Accountable to the Chief Nurse and DASP Programme Board, oversee clinical governance and risk management across DASP, including ownership of the clinical safety case, hazard log, and safety thresholds.
• Lead digital transformation in care delivery, ensuring safe, compliant implementation of clinical systems, and act as clinical governance lead for DASP, maintaining donor safety, risk oversight, and regulatory alignment while improving outcomes and efficiency.

Qualifications

• Masters degree or equivalent experience in an appropriate subject e.g. education, management, clinical.
• Expertise with post Masters experience leading to status as expert for the role
• Evidence of specialist training or substantial experience in clinical informatics/digital health leadership.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development in digital health and leadership.
• Relevant Clinical qualification (e.g. NMC) with requirement to maintain registration.
• Evidence of continuing professional development developing expertise across the range of financial, performance management, staff leadership and project management disciplines.
• Broad clinical experience relevant to the post.

Experience

• Demonstrable awareness of national professional and education issues.
• Knowledge required to manage external education contracts within contract framework.
• Clinical risk management knowledge.
• Demonstrable experience in clinical informatics and digital transformation within healthcare settings.
• Knowledge of regulatory compliance for digital health solutions, including clinical safety standards and governance frameworks.
• Experience in leading complex programmes involving digital systems change and clinical risk management.
• Understanding of NHS policy, Agenda for Change principles, and digital health strategies.
• Evidence of significant experience in developing, writing, and drafting policy.
• Demonstrable senior level management experience in leading, motivating and developing teams.
• Evidence of leading on quality initiatives.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Further information about the role and how to apply can be found on the NHSBT Careers website.