Job overview
**Fixed term for 23 months**
Contract commences 1st December 2026
Lead the future of digital medicines at HDFT
Are you an experienced clinical (Nursing) or pharmacy professional (Pharmacist or Pharmacy Technician) with a passion for digital transformation, medicines safety and improving patient care?
This is an exciting opportunity to join Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust as our Senior Digital Medicines Lead – EPMA, supporting the implementation of NerveCentre EPMA as part of the Trust’s strategic implementation of the wider NerveCentre Electronic Patient Record.
This high-profile role will put you at the heart of a major Trust-wide digital transformation programme. You will help shape how electronic prescribing and medicines administration is designed, implemented, embedded and optimised across inpatient, outpatient and day-case settings.
We are looking for a credible, motivated and forward-thinking individual who can bring together clinical insight, medicines governance, digital knowledge and strong leadership skills to support safe, effective and user-centred digital medicines workflows.
Main duties of the job
- Lead and coordinate agreed workstreams for the implementation, upgrade and optimisation of NerveCentre EPMA.
- Provide specialist digital medicines, clinical informatics and medicines governance leadership.
- Support safe system configuration, testing, validation, clinical sign-off and optimisation.
- Translate clinical and operational requirements into effective digital workflows and standard operating processes.
- Support clinical safety assurance, risk identification, mitigation and escalation.
- Use audit findings, incident trends, user feedback and performance data to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Chair and contribute to multidisciplinary meetings, working groups and project discussions.
- Develop and deliver training, guidance and communication materials for clinical, pharmacy, technical and operational users.
- Work collaboratively with pharmacy, medical, nursing, AHP, IT, informatics, operational and supplier teams.
Provide day-to-day leadership, supervision and line management to Digital Medicines Lead Technicians and/or members of the digital medicines implementation team.
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 with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacist / Pharmacy Technician or registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council .
- Postgraduate qualification in leadership, clinical pharmacy, digital health, clinical informatics, quality improvement or equivalent evidence of practical application of expertise at this level.
- Lean for Leaders, quality improvement certification, or commitment to undertake a relevant programme of study.
- Significant experience in hospital pharmacy or pharmacy services, with substantial involvement in digital medicines, ePMA, EPR or clinical informatics.
- Experience supporting, delivering or leading clinical informatics initiatives relating to medicines safety, digital workflows and clinical governance.
- Experience of clinical governance, risk management, medicines safety, incident investigation and development of risk mitigation plans.
- Experience of chairing or leading multidisciplinary meetings, working groups or project discussions, ensuring clear actions, accountability and delivery.
- Excellent understanding of electronic prescribing and medicines administration systems and their impact on clinical practice, medicines safety and patient care.
- Strong clinical informatics and medicines governance skills, with attention to detail and a clear focus on patient safety.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to explain complex information clearly to a range of professional groups.
Desirable
- Formal training or certification in project or programme management, such as PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent.
- NHS leadership, digital leadership or clinical informatics qualification.
- Independent prescribing qualification, where professionally applicable.
- Experience working within a formal digital transformation programme or EPR/ePMA implementation project.
- Awareness of national digital medicines policy, guidance or best practice. Familiarity with benefits realisation approaches in digital transformation programmes.
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This advert is for Senior Digital Medicines Lead - ePR and ePMA with Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust in Harrogate, North East and Yorkshire, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Manager and corporate role. The advertised salary is £57,528 - £64,750 pa 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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