Digital Clinical Lead

Job summary

As Digital Clinical Lead, you will have a key role in supporting the safe, effective, and strategic use of more than 30 pharmacy systems across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT). Operating at an advanced level of clinical practice, the role combines specialist pharmaceutical expertise with digital leadership to enhance high-quality, patient-centred care and support the Trusts ambition.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be motivated, conscientious, passionate, respectful, and professional, with significant experience in digital health. They will provide expert clinical pharmacy leadership across the design, configuration, implementation, optimisation, and governance of a wide range of systems, including EPMA, Chemocare, aseptic services, and medicines management platforms. The post will also support the implementation of a new EPMA system, ensuring clinical requirements and workflows are translated into digital solutions aligned with national standards, local policies, and evidence-based practice. The postholder will support the operational function of the team managing a small and dedicated team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians that oversee some of our key clinical systems.

About us

The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is committed to delivering the highest quality and safest treatment and care to every patient, every time. Our vision is to provide the highest quality specialist and integrated care. We will do this through delivery of our multi-year goals and strategic priorities, which you can read about on this page. Central to it all is The Leeds Way our values and behaviours that are at the heart of everything we do.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Why you should join our Team

The MMPS Digital Team is a small, dynamic, professional, and supportive team with a strong track record of delivering high-quality outcomes in support of the Trust’s vision to provide exceptional specialist and integrated care. The role involves working closely with a wide range of multidisciplinary stakeholders, including clinicians, nursing teams, digital services, informatics specialists, governance leads, and external system suppliers.

This role will be hosted at the St James sites but will require cross site working.

What you will bring to the role

Significant experience, knowledge, theory and practical delivery of major change and improvement programmes
A comprehensive understanding of the interpretation and application of NHS Digital, Information and Technology Strategy, with a specific focus on medicines data standards and electronic prescribing and medicines administration systems
Demonstrable political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy and diverse interest groups, and common sense in knowing when to brief "up the line".
Training and experience in clinical governance and risk management
The ability to assimilate, analyse and disseminate highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information
Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability to influence widely and negotiating effectively.
Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships.
A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals
Demonstrate the ability to work under pressure whilst supporting and getting the most out of staff.
Ability to engage and fully involve senior staff in the redesign of patient pathways.

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Patient-centred Collaborative Fair Accountable Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values

We’re committed to recruiting exceptional people to deliver outstanding services across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and helping every colleague reach their full potential. We’re looking for a compassionate, inclusive, and collaborative leader who shares our values and can build strong partnerships. We warmly invite applications from people from a variety of backgrounds and sectors, and are especially keen to hear from individuals from a minority ethnic background. We’re dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and has a true sense of belonging, as we work together to deliver the best in healthcare to the people of Leeds and beyond.

Sponsorship Eligibility

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Professional Registration.
First Degree or equivalent.
Masters degree in relevant discipline, leadership or degree level plus significant in-depth experience at a senior level and training equivalent to
masters level
Post-graduate qualification within a leadership programme/study or
evidence of practical application of expertise at this level
Registered with the GPHC
Lean for Leaders / Quality Improvement certification or commitment to undertake relevant programme of study

Desirable

Management or change management qualification
Evidence of further training in Business, Programme and Project Management
NHS or Digital Leadership qualification
Non-medical prescriber

Experience

Essential

Please see job description attached

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

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St James’s University Hospital

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS9 7TF

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/

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