Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Digital Matron

The closing date is 30 July 2026

Date posted: 16 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year (per annum)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 214-CEN-8021441
Job locations: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Mansfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom

Job summary
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced and inspirational Digital Matron to lead the development, implementation and delivery of innovative digital health services across our organisation.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated clinical leader who is passionate about improving patient care through digital transformation. Working as part of the senior Digital Services team, you will play a pivotal role in delivering the Trust's Digital Strategy and supporting the modernisation of healthcare services through the effective use of technology.

You will support major transformation programmes requiring significant clinical engagement and collaboration, helping to embed digital solutions that improve patient outcomes, staff experience and service efficiency. The role involves working closely with clinical teams across the Trust, providing expert advice, support and facilitation to ensure successful digital adoption and change management.

As a visible and accessible clinical leader, you will champion safe, effective and patient-centred digital services while ensuring that patients, carers and staff are actively involved in the development, delivery and evaluation of digital initiatives.

Join us and help transform healthcare through digital innovation.

Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential

• Experience of leading and delivering programmes of change within an acute NHS setting
• Experience of working with patient groups
• Significant post registration experience including management and leadership experience
• Able to provide specialised advice concerning digital healthcare
• Project management experience
• Experience of performance management
• Experience of working with people in challenging situations
• Experience of dealing with conflict and complaints
• Knowledge of budgets/financial control
• In depth knowledge of current and relevant digital health national agenda
• Experience of managing complex and sensitive issues
• Proven experience Line Management responsibility
• Excellent communications skills, written and oral
• Ability to build successful teams
• Excellent problem-solving skills using team when appropriate experience of audit and audit tools
• Able to present and receive highly complex information within the multi professional team
• Understanding of pro-active performance management within a large clinical area
• Ability to prioritise own workload and maintain consistent standards
• Forward thinking, innovative
• Demonstrates strong organisational skills and abilities
• Ability to work on own initiative but also as part of a team
• Ability to plan strategies which impact positively across the service

Desirable

• Involvement in business planning
• Clinical governance
• Knowledge of complaints management
• Patient Partnership working
• Knowledge and experience of working with AGILE methodology

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered Nurse, Midwife or AHP
• Professional knowledge acquired through Bachelor's degree in nursing/midwifery, supplemented by post graduate specialist training to master's equivalent level
• Management qualification or relevant experience

Desirable

• Digital Health qualification
• Leadership qualification
• Project Management Qualification
• Clinical Safety Officer

Further Training
Essential

• Evidence of continuing professional development

Experience
Essential

• Significant operational experience at Band 7 or above
• Significant experience at delivering change projects

Contractual Requirements
Essential

• Requirement to meet CPD and clinical skills
• Must be able to travel between hospital sites in a timely manner
• Ability to contribute to the on-call rota

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.

Employer details
Employer name: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Mansfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
CNIO Claire Madon
Email: claire.madon@nhs.net
Phone: 07850090933