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.
Responsibilities
- 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, DCB0160 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.
About the Trust
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds and parts of the North East.
Benefits
The role is an Agency for Change role and a pre‑employment check is required. Employees have access to an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and fast‑track Physiotherapy service.
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