Job overview
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification. If you have any questions, please contact Sara Abbas-Llewelyn on [email protected]
Person specification
Qualifications, knowledge skills and experience
Essential
- 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.
Desirable
- 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.
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This advert is for Lead Pharmacist - Digital Medicines, ePR and ePMA with Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust in Harrogate, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is £66,582 - £77,368 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Fixed term: 23 months (Contract commences 1st December 2026). The application deadline is 19 Jul 2026.
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