# Chief Pharmacy Technician - ePMA & Digital Services > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/chief-pharmacy-technician-epma-and-digital-services/cb966bf1-6d5a-46d0-b934-e53cf232b491 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/chief-pharmacy-technician-epma-and-digital-services/cb966bf1-6d5a-46d0-b934-e53cf232b491.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** Kingston Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Pharmacy technician - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 per annum inc Outer London HCAS (pro-rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Work evenings, weekends and Bank Holidays according to rotas) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-10T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-27T15:50:34.959Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Kingston/Kingston_Richmond_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Chief_Technician/Chief_Technician-v8398127 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8398127?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.kingstonandrichmond.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Pharmacy and digital might not be two things you immediately put together, but this role brings both together. We’re looking for an experienced Senior Pharmacy Technician with a passion for digital healthcare to join us as Chief Technician, ePMA. As part of our Pharmacy Digital and Informatics Team, you’ll help maintain, develop and optimise our ePMA system, working across the Trust to improve prescribing and patient safety. You’ll support and train colleagues, contribute to multidisciplinary discussions and digital projects, and help solve problems as they arise. We’re looking for someone who communicates clearly, can make training engaging and enjoys finding better ways of doing things. With healthcare becoming increasingly digital, this is an opportunity to build specialist ePMA skills while using your pharmacy knowledge to improve how medicines are prescribed and administered. You’ll also retain your operational pharmacy experience in the dispensary, although the majority of the role will focus on digital medicines systems and supporting the people who use them. Applications are invited from qualified Pharmacy Technicians with proven experience in health informatics to undertake this post on a developmental basis, offering progression from Band 6 to Band 7 upon achievement of agreed competencies. ### Main duties of the job - To help maintain and optimise our Trust Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) systems as an integral member of the Pharmacy Digital Team. - Provide expert training and support to multidisciplinary staff using the Trust Oracle Cerner Millenium EPMA system. - Working with multidisciplinary teams to design and implement system changes to promote safe prescribing in line with Trust clinical guidelines. - Work in collaboration with the wider Trust Digital Teams on projects, system upgrades and configuration and regression testing. - Design, build and implement prescribing protocols, order sets and clinical decision support tools in line with Trust guidelines. - Contribute to medication safety initiatives through system design, audit and continuous quality improvement. Continued on attached JD... ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached supporting document/s (JD) which contains more information about the role in the job description and person specification. Ensure any supporting statements align with the job description and person specification, as your application will be assessed against these criteria. Previous applicants need not apply. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - BTEC in Pharmaceutical Sciences - NVQ Level 3 in pharmaceutical services (or equivalent) - Registered with the GPHC **Desirable** - ACPT qualification - Additional qualifications or training in digital health or IT systems ### Experience and Skills **Essential** - Previous NHS Hospital Pharmacy - Good understanding of medicines optimisation and the role of digital systems in improving patient safety - Providing support and technical expertise on hospital electronic prescribing and administration systems - Proven ability to master new systems rapidly - Knowledge of professional code of conduct and guidance issued by the GPhC **Desirable** - Knowledge of health informatics - Experience with Healthcare IT computer systems ## Documents - [chief technician, crs (pdf, 352.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10729131) - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2412) - [epma pharmacist job description (pdf, 944.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10729130) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.