About this role
Job summary
Help shape the future of digital medicines at HDFT
Are you a registered Pharmacy Technician with a passion for medicines safety, digital innovation and supporting colleagues through change?
This is an exciting opportunity to join the Digital Medicines Team at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 6 Lead Pharmacy Technician - ePMA and Digital Medicines Support. You will play a key role in supporting the implementation of Nervecentre ePMA as part of the Trust's strategic implementation of the wider Nervecentre Electronic Patient Record (EPR).
This role offers the chance to be at the forefront of a major digital transformation programme, helping to improve prescribing, medicines administration, clinical workflows, data quality, staff experience and, most importantly, patient safety.
These posts are offered as a23-month fixed term opportunity and will be based within the Pharmacy Department at HDFT.
Main duties of the job
You will:
Act as a key point of contact for ePMA and digital medicines queries from pharmacy, medical, nursing and other clinical staff. Support the implementation, optimisation and safe use of Nervecentre ePMA and related digital medicines processes. Contribute to system build, configuration, testing, validation, user acceptance testing and change control. Support go-live activity, upgrades and optimisation, including floor-walking, issue logging and user support. Help design, deliver and evaluate ePMA training for pharmacy, nursing, medical and other clinical staff. Develop and maintain user guidance, quick reference guides, SOPs, FAQs and other support materials. Support medicines safety, governance and incident review relating to ePMA and digital medicines systems. Contribute to audit, reporting, service evaluation and quality improvement linked to digital medicines workflows. Provide day-to-day guidance, support and supervision to Digital Medicines Support Officers, pharmacy technicians, trainees, assistants or other staff as delegated.
About us
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.
At HDFT we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff and we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. If you're looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients' lives, HDFT could be the place for you!
We offer colleagues:
A supportive culture so colleagues can bring their whole selves to work. Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise achievements with our Making a Difference & Team of the Month Awards, along with annual Colleague Recognition Awards. Employee Support and wellbeing - we offer a wide range of staff benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and a fast-track Physiotherapy service. Please note:
Due to high levels of interest, posts may close early if we reach a sufficient number of applications Visa sponsorship is only available for certain roles. Please ensure the role you are interested in meets the criteria for a visa before submitting your application. Please also be aware that the Trust does not offer relocation packages for Agenda for Change roles. All job offers are subject to satisfactory pre-employment checks.
Job description Job 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, experience, skills and personal attributes. Essential
Registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council. Evidence of relevant post-registration continuing professional development. Accredited checking qualification or equivalent relevant experience. Relevant leadership, supervisory, education/training or digital systems training. Significant post-registration experience as a pharmacy technician in a hospital, clinical or medicines management setting. Experience of contributing to service improvement, audit, quality improvement or change implementation. Experience of using clinical systems, pharmacy systems or electronic patient records. Specialist knowledge of medicines management processes, medicines optimisation and safe use of medicines. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to communicate digital medicines information to staff from different professional backgrounds.
Desirable
Qualification or training in digital health, clinical informatics, project management, quality improvement or change management. Train-the-trainer Experience of supporting ePMA, EPR or other digital clinical systems. Experience of system testing, user acceptance testing, issue logging or change control. Experience of contributing to incident review or medicines governance processes. Knowledge of ePMA configuration, testing, optimisation or system administration. Ability to use reporting tools or interpret data from digital clinical systems. Ability to support system configuration, testing scripts or change control processes.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
Address Harrogate District Hospital
Harrogate
HG2 7SX
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.hdft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)