Lead Pharmacist - Digital Medicines, ePR and ePMA
Job summary
As Lead Pharmacist - Digital Medicines EPMA/EPR, you will provide senior strategic, clinical and professional pharmacy leadership for digital medicines across the Trust, with primary responsibility for supporting the safe design, implementation, integration, optimisation and ongoing development of electronic prescribing and medicines administration within the wider EPR programme.
You will help ensure that digital medicines systems, workflows and governance arrangements are clinically safe, legally compliant, operationally effective, user-centred and aligned to Trust priorities for patient safety, quality, productivity, staff experience and service transformation.
The role will involve leading complex Trust-wide digital medicines workstreams across inpatient, outpatient, day-case and relevant cross-organisational pathways, translating strategic, clinical, operational and medicines governance requirements into safe digital medicines standards, system design principles, workflows, testing strategies, training requirements, benefits measures and optimisation priorities.
You will work closely with the Director of Pharmacy, current Lead Pharmacist - Digital, Medicines Safety Officer, Chief Clinical Information Officer, EPR Programme Team, Patient Systems Team, pharmacy leadership team, clinical services, digital colleagues, suppliers and regional partners.
Main duties of the job
In this senior leadership role, you will:
- Act as a senior pharmacy professional lead for digital medicines, EPR and EPMA across the Trust.
- Lead the delivery of digital medicines workstreams aligned to the Pharmacy Strategy, EPR programme, Trust digital strategy, medicines optimisation priorities and patient safety objectives.
- Provide expert professional advice to senior stakeholders, including the Director of Pharmacy, CCIO, EPR Programme Board, Digital Strategy Board and other governance groups.
- Provide senior pharmacy leadership for EPMA design, build, validation, implementation, optimisation and integration within the wider EPR.
- Set clinical and professional standards for medicines-related system configuration, including prescribing, administration, clinical decision support, order sets, formularies, medicines reconciliation, discharge medicines and medicines documentation.
- Oversee clinical safety, governance and risk management activity, including medicines-related digital risks, DCB 0160 documentation, hazard logs, safety cases, clinical risk assessments and clinical sign-off processes.
- Lead the development and review of Trust-wide policies, procedures, standards and guidance relating to digital medicines, EPMA and medicines-related EPR workflows.
- Use digital medicines data, incident trends, system reports, audits and user feedback to identify risks, themes and opportunities for improvement.
About us
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds and parts of the North East.
At HDFT we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff and we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. If you're looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients' lives, HDFT could be the place for you!
We offer colleagues:
- A supportive culture so colleagues can bring their whole selves to work.
- Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise achievements with our Making a Difference & Team of the Month Awards, along with annual Colleague Recognition Awards.
- Employee Support and wellbeing - we offer a wide range of staff benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and a fast-track Physiotherapy service.
Please note:
- Due to high levels of interest, posts may close early if we reach a sufficient number of applications
- Visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for a visa before submitting your application.
- Please also be aware that the Trust does not offer relocation packages for Agenda for Change roles.
- All job offers are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification. If you have any questions, please contact Sara Abbas-Llewelyn on sara.abbas-llewelyn@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications, knowledge skills and experience
- Registered pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent specialist knowledge and experience.
- Evidence of advanced specialist knowledge in digital medicines, clinical informatics, medicines optimisation, medicines governance or a relevant specialist area.
- Leadership, management, quality improvement or project/programme management training, or equivalent senior practical experience.
- Significant post-registration experience as a pharmacist, including senior clinical, operational, governance, digital or service leadership experience.
- Experience of working in an acute NHS Trust or similarly complex healthcare setting.
- Experience of leading complex transformation, service redesign or improvement across multidisciplinary teams
- Experience of ePMA, EPR, digital medicines, clinical informatics or digital clinical systems
- Experience of applying medicines governance, medicines safety and clinical risk management principles in practice. Experience of leading or contributing to clinical safety, incident review, risk assessment or governance processes.
- Highly developed analytical and judgement skills, including the ability to make decisions where information is complex, incomplete, conflicting or contentious.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present complex information clearly to senior and multidisciplinary audiences.
- Postgraduate qualification in digital health, clinical informatics, leadership, management or project/programme management.
- Independent prescribing qualification.
- Formal quality improvement training.
- Experience of leading ePMA implementation or optimisation within an NHS organisation.
- Understanding of benefits realisation, digital adoption, usability, human factors and optimisation methodologies.
- Ability to use reporting tools or dashboards to support performance monitoring and benefits realisation.
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Harrogate District Hospital
Harrogate District Hospital, Lancaster Park Road, Harrogate, HG2 7SX
Harrogate
HD2 7SX
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.hdft.nhs.uk/