Pharmacy Project Lead for Digital Systems
Job summary
UCLH was recently successful in securing funding from NHS England and from other NHS Trusts using Epic as their digital health record system for a first-of-type (FoT) fixed-term project to integrate the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS) into Epic.
As part of a small project team, the Pharmacy Project Lead for Digital Systems will be a senior, fixed-term leadership role responsible for overseeing the development and deployment of EPS within the Epic digital health record system at UCLH, and support other participating Epic NHS Trusts across England to prepare adoption and rollout.
In conjunction with digital colleagues, the postholder will provide assurance on the safe and effective use of EPS, and will be responsible for promoting patient safety, maintaining data integrity, and ensuring systems meet the clinical, regulatory and operational needs of the Trust, its staff, and patients.
The postholder will act on behalf of all participating Epic NHS Trusts across England, providing strategic programme leadership, professional pharmacy oversight and digital expertise to ensure safe, standardised and effective integration of EPS into Epic, aligned with NHS England policy, clinical safety standards and delivery timelines.
Operating at Agenda for Change Band 8b, the postholder will lead complex, high-risk transformation across organisational boundaries, influencing senior stakeholders at Trust, regional and national level.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will:
o Provide strategic leadership and programme management of the EPS FoT scheme on behalf of all participating Epic Trusts across Englando Ensure the EPS solution meets digital and clinical safety standards, through close collaboration with relevant teamso Ensure national stakeholder engagement at all levels in Epic Trusts across England, and with partners at NHS Englando Develop a financial and operational benefits case to allow the operational, clinical and financial impact of EPS to be evaluated and quantifiedo Develop and implement strategies to overcome obstacles to adoption of EPS, and support other participating Epic Trusts with their deploymentso Monitor adherence to agreed project plans, and develop appropriate mitigations when required in negotiation with key stakeholderso Support the development of national EPS training approaches, and provide mentorship to pharmacy and digital colleagues across the countryo Liaise with other NHS Trusts supporting the development of similar FoT schemes with different system providers to ensure learning is shared for the benefit of wider EPS rollout in secondary care
If you would like further details about the role and associated responsibilities please contact Robin Offord, Deputy Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Pharmacy Services, UCLH
About us
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For the full Person Specification and more information regarding the main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
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Person Specification
Qualifications, knowledge & competence
- Masters of Pharmacy degree or equivalent
- Full registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Six years as a pharmacist in secondary care
- Ten years post-registration with the GPhC
- Broad clinical experience within general surgery and general medicine
- Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or General Pharmacy Practice
- Identifies areas where non-medical prescribing may be applicable to specialist practice
- Working knowledge of digital systems design and governance
- Maintains an awareness of broader pharmacy and secondary care practice
- Undertaken leadership and/or management training courses
- Minimum of four years of experience as a dedicated clinical pharmacist
- Doctorate degree
- Registered Independent Prescriber
- Experience in the design and/or implementation of Epic, including system enhancements
- Completed project management training
Management & leadership skills
- Experience in management of others
- Identifies novel ways of working to enhance services
- Ability to analyse and critically appraise clinical and operational data
- Ability to utilise email, word processing, presentation and spreadsheet software packages in order to enhance work efficiency and to generate solutions to complex problems
- Evaluates service provision
- Ability to evaluate quality of services provided
- Demonstrates innovation
- Delegates authority appropriately
- Ability to develop and implement risk management procedures
- Ability to utilise database, data analytics, and other applications in order to enhance work efficiency and to generate solutions to complex problems
- Actively seeks to improve services provided
- Identifies staff development needs to enhance services
- Ability to develop and implement risk management procedures at a Directorate or Divisional level
Digital & interpersonal skills
- Demonstrates expert digital awareness, knowledge, and skills
- Ability to identify and prioritise the delivery of services
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate options to senior colleagues
- Demonstrates advanced level of reasoning and judgement in practice
- Demonstrate an intuitive grasp of situations based on deep tacit understanding
- Ability to formulate suitable solutions in areas of uncertainty
- Ability to influence senior colleagues to bring about change
- Enhances the quality of patient care
- Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the principles of good governance
- Demonstrable use of audit and quality improvement methodologies to improve practice
- Demonstrates ability to achieve desired outcomes in the face of diverse unavoidable pressures
- Demonstrates ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
- Displays honesty and integrity, is aware of ethical dilemmas relating to services, and respects confidentiality
- Recognised as a national and/or international expert in relation to digital healthcare
- Ability to prioritise future developments to meet service needs
- Ability to manage difficult and ambiguous problems where little information is available
- Ability to influence practice at a directorate or Trust level
- Demonstrates a whole-system patient-oriented approach
- Demonstrates ability to co-ordinate services to achieve desired outcomes in the face of diverse unavoidable pressures
Education & training skills
- Previous experience in delivering education and training at a postgraduate level
- Ensures own training needs, and those of others are identified and met
- Previous experience in co-ordinating education and training programmes at a postgraduate level
- Actively seeks novel opportunities to meet training needs, and evaluates the training provided
Research & development skills
- Participation in multidisciplinary health services research
- Integrates research evidence into practice
- Maintains a portfolio of practice for revalidation and credentialling purposes
- Planning and co-ordination of multi-disciplinary health care research
- Undertakes own research
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
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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
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Employer details
Employer name
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
University College London Hospital
235 Euston Road
London
NW1 2BU
Employer's website
https://www.uclh.nhs.uk