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Job summary

Main area
Clinical Digitisation
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (maternity back fill)
Hours
  • Full time
  • Home or remote working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref
391-RFL-6858676
Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Free Hospital as main site but will cover all sites
Town
Hampstead
Salary
£61,927 - £68,676 per annum inclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
07/01/2025 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Band 8a Deputy Lead EPMA Pharmacist

Band 8a

Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community.  This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

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Job overview

To deputise for the lead EPMA pharmacist and support the strategy, design, development and further implementation of Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) across the Trust. Provide support and leadership to all organisations developing EPMA systems within the Royal Free Group and Global Digital Exemplar (GDE) fast followers. To maintain and develop further a clinically focused, evidence based EPMA system to ensure information systems support delivery of best practice clinical care.

Main duties of the job

12  months duration

Deputy EPMA Pharmacist – 8a

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic pharmacist to lead the clinical input into the implementation and maintenance of EPMA across the Royal Free London Group. The postholder will assist with the implementation of EPMA, ensuring that the roles and responsibilities of pharmacy staff at ward level are clearly defined and are aligned with the EPMA system.

Applications can be made online via http://jobs.royalfree.nhs.uk

Working for our organisation

This is an exciting time to be working at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. The Trust was awarded Global Digital Exemplar status in 2017 and one of our main sites achieved HIMSS7 validation in 2022 and is known as the most digitally advanced hospital in the NHS.

We are looking for 12 month deputy Lead EPMA pharmacist role to support the Clinical Informatics team in our clinical digitisation department. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Person specification

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Education & professional Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • • MPharm or equivalent Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
  • • Postgraduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy or Digital Health (or experience
  • • Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
Desirable criteria
  • • Faculty of Clinical Informatics Member

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Post registration experience in hospital clinical pharmacy or digital health
  • • Experience in IT and electronic prescribing systems, preferably Cerner Millennium.
  • • Experience in delivering formal education and training, on complicated subjects, to large groups
  • • Demonstrable experience in supervising others.
  • • Demonstrable experience of co-ordinating and leading on audit.
  • • Experience of the use of data to drive improvements in medicines use
  • • Experience working with senior clinicians and informatics professionals
Desirable criteria
  • • Experience working across secondary care setting

Skills and Aptitudes

Essential criteria
  • • Good written and verbal communication skills
  • • Good interpersonal skills
  • • Ability to manage time effectively
  • • Ability to communicate with patients and staff of all levels
  • • Computer literate
  • • Good negotiating skills
  • • Demonstrates initiative particularly in relation to problem solving
  • • Ability to carry out day to day responsibilities and deal effectively with unpredictable / acute demands
  • • Ability to justify and reason any advice given should this be challenged
  • • Ability to plan, prioritise and organise self and others workload
  • • Ability to work accurately under pressure
  • • Understanding of clinical risk and clinical governance
  • • Previous experience of delivering training

Personal Qualities and Attributes

Essential criteria
  • • Enthusiastic, well-motivated, hardworking
  • • Reliable to work weekends, bank holidays, late nights and oncall.
  • • Reliable with good attendance record
  • • Be flexible in responding to demands of the service. .
  • • Knows own professional and personal limitations and seeks advice where necessary.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Hannah Packard
Job title
Lead EPMA Pharmacist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07729692989
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