Assistant CCIO (Pharmacy & Medicines)
Job summary
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT) is embarking on a once-in-a-generation digital transformation that will fundamentally enhance how we deliver patient care. Our ambitious Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme represents a major step forward in improving digital capability, enabling staff to work more efficiently and productively while delivering the highest standards of patient experience, safety and clinical effectiveness.
We are seeking a passionate, forward-thinking, and digitally-focused pharmacy leader to join us as Assistant Chief Clinical Information Officer (aCCIO) for Pharmacy and Medicines. This is an exceptional opportunity to play a key strategic role in shaping the future of digital medicines across a large, multi-site acute Trust.
Working as part of a dynamic multidisciplinary digital pharmacy team, including pharmacists, technicians, digital specialists and wider clinical colleagues, you will champion innovation, lead clinical safety and governance in digital medicines, and ensure that our EPR delivers meaningful improvements for both staff and patients.
If you are committed to advancing the role of digital in transforming medicines management and supporting our mission to provide outstanding services, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Lead digital medicines workstreams within the Trust's EPR programme, ensuring safe, effective and clinically sound system design.
Provide expert clinical and strategic leadership on how medicines-related processes are built, optimised and maintained within the EPR.
Act as the key link between Pharmacy services, the EPR programme, and wider clinical teams.
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Serve as Pharmacy Clinical Safety Officer for digital systems, ensuring risks are identified, documented and managed.
Develop and maintain policies, standards and SOPs governing digital medicines practices.
Oversee clinical safety assurance, testing, and signoff for new functionality.
Build strong relationships with clinicians, digital teams, operational leads and external partners.
Represent Pharmacy across Trustwide digital governance, contributing to decisionmaking and influencing system design.
Lead development of a digitally capable pharmacy workforce, ensuring training and support are in place for golives.
Guide teams through service change, supporting staff, resolving challenges and encouraging engagement with new digital ways of working.
Oversee incident management, business continuity and response to live digital system issues affecting medicines.
Translate service needs into system requirements, business cases and project plans.
Support optimisation of digital medicines systems across all LUHFT sites.
Provide expert clinical pharmacy input and maintain some direct patientfacing practice.
Use specialist medicines knowledge to support safe prescribing, verification and optimisation
Lead audit, evaluation and research activity relating to digital medicines and EPR impact.
Monitor national standards and digital developments, ensuring LUHFT aligns with best practice.
Person Specification
Qualifications
- Vocational Masters Degree (or equivalent) in Pharmacy
- Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Relevant Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Qualification or equivalent experiential learning
- Masters level degree in a relevant subject area e.g. computer science or digital healthcare leadership
- NHS Digital Academy Programme Graduate
- Digital Clinical Safety training
- Non-medical prescribing qualification
- Project management qualification e.g. Prince2 foundation
- Registered with a professional body related to informatics e.g. FEDIP or British Computer Society
Experience
- Significant post registration experience in acute hospital pharmacy services
- Demonstrable experience in leading at least one major informatics intervention, such as deployment of of an Electronic Patient Record system to improve care quality, within the last three years
- Extensive leadership experience working with CCIOs, CIO and Chief Pharmacist in developing and implementing digital strategy across an organisation
- Experience of translating business requirements into information/system requirements, and producing other documentation associated with the implementation of IT systems e.g. Business Cases, Risk Assessments, Risk/Issues logs, Policies, Procedures, Process maps and work plans
- Significant leadership experience
- Experience of business development
- Teaching skills and experience
- Project and change management experience
- Experience of workforce change to support improvement in service provision
Knowledge and Skills
- Published peer review research relating to Digital Healthcare
- Broad knowledge of new technologies and their potential for application in healthcare and understanding of the wider NHS informatics agenda
- Ability to provide a strategic overview of the development of clinical digital systems to support high quality care and organisational effectiveness
- Computer literate requiring advanced keyboard skills - ability to use computer programming languages such as Javascript and SQL
- Good detailed knowledge of appropriate legislation relating to pharmacy services
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
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Liverpool Hospital
Mount Vernon Street
Liverpool
L7 8XP
Employer's website
https://www.liverpoolft.nhs.uk/