Pharmacist - EPMA

Job overview

Specialist Pharmacist – EPMA (Band 8a)

Contract: 1 year Fixed Term (Maternity Cover) Full Time: 37.5 hrs/week Site: Cross-site (Chelsea & Westminster and West Middlesex Hospitals)

We are looking for an enthusiastic and self-motivated pharmacist to join our dynamic EPMA team as a Specialist Pharmacist – EPMA at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the ongoing development and optimisation of our Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system, working across both Trust sites and collaboratively within the North West London Acute Provider Group (NWL APG). You will contribute to system-wide digital transformation, supporting safe, effective and standardised prescribing and medicines administration.

This role offers a unique combination of digital and clinical practice. Alongside your EPMA responsibilities, you will maintain clinical pharmacy skills by providing ward-based clinical pharmacy services at West Middlesex Hospital for 2 days per week.

As a Specialist Pharmacist – EPMA, you will work closely with the Principal Pharmacist EPMA, clinical teams and digital colleagues to support the development, maintenance and optimisation of EPMA workflows, drug catalogues and clinical decision support tools. You will play a key role in improving patient safety, reducing unwarranted variation and embedding best practice in medicines optimisation.

Main duties of the job

You will:

• Play a key role in the multidisciplinary delivery and optimisation of EPMA across the Trust and NWL APG.
• Support the design, build, testing and implementation of EPMA functionality, including prescribing workflows and clinical decision support.
• Contribute to the development and governance of the shared medicines build and drug catalogue.
• Lead and support quality improvement, audit and transformation initiatives to enhance digital medicines optimisation and patient safety.
• Work collaboratively with pharmacy, medical, nursing and digital teams to ensure safe and consistent use of EPMA.
• Develop and deliver training, guidance and user support for EPMA systems.
• Provide clinical ward-based pharmacy services at West Middlesex Hospital (2 days per week), maintaining clinical competence and supporting high-quality patient care.
• Participate in clinical governance, incident review and continuous service improvement related to digital medicines systems.
• Deputise for the Principal Pharmacist EPMA where appropriate.

You will be a proactive team player with excellent organisational, analytical and communication skills, and a strong interest in digital transformation and medicines optimisation. You will be committed to delivering safe, effective and patient-centred care while supporting innovation across services.

For further information or an informal discussion, please contact:

Nicola Vosser– Principal Pharmacist EPMA • Telephone: 07825193106 • Email: [email protected]

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the role, please refer to the Job Description. This post offers a unique opportunity to work within a highly specialist EPMA team, supporting the ongoing development, optimisation and safe use of EPMA across the Trust and wider NWL APG. The role combines digital transformation with clinical practice, including responsibility for maintaining prescribing workflows, contributing to major system developments such as EPS, and providing ward-based clinical pharmacy services. The successful candidate will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to support safe, effective and innovative medicines management, contributing to service improvement, governance and high-quality patient care across multiple clinical settings.