Job summary
This job is being advertised concurrently by Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. You only need to make a single application through either one of the Trusts.
An exceptional career opportunity has arisen to join our Joint EPR Team in the role of EPR Lead Pharmacist. We are seeking an experienced, high calibre pharmacist who is looking to advance their career and build on their clinical, IT and leadership skills to lead our Joint EPR Medications Team. Candidates will be enthusiastic, highly motivated, flexible and well organised.
Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust and Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trusts have been live since 2017 with a shared incidence of Cerner Millennium Electronic Patient Record (EPR)
EPR Prescribing is live across the majority of inpatient and outpatient areas.
Main duties of the job
This role is to act as specialist EPR Pharmacist, developing, implementing and supporting all elements of the Trusts EPR relating to prescribing and medicines usage and to work closely with both organisations Pharmacy Departments on Pharmacy Informatics Projects. The post holder will be an expert in their field and will be expected to make decisions about situations which may involve a number of complicated or highly complex components.
About us
Working across both Calderdale and Huddersfield Foundation Trust and Bradford teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Be the Pharmacy lead to facilitate current and future state design work to establish a design for electronic prescribing and medicines usage.
- To liaise with multidisciplinary clinical teams across both trusts on matters relating to e-prescribing.
- To ensure all processes relating to e-prescribing are safe and appropriate.
- To audit the prescribing elements of the EPR to ensure continuous improvement and adaptation of the system in order to meet clinical needs.
- To continue to develop EPR to support the implementation and use of agreed clinical protocols.
- To lead on the configuration & support of electronic prescribing within the Trust.
- To assist in the delivery, maintenance and support of EPR
- To be responsible for providing the highly specialist knowledge required to ensure that the Trust's EPR electronic prescribing system promotes the safe and effective use of medicines.
- To be the main interface and point of contact between Pharmacy and the EPR Team
- To gather and provide input from clinical users of the EPR electronic prescribing system to improve the functionality of electronic prescribing
- To promote and implement electronic prescribing in an effective and positive manner appropriate to clinical groups and to assist the Training team/Digital Change management team in the training of Pharmacy EPR users
- To attain and maintain expert EPR user status configuration functional and associated work practices
- work collaboratively with EMIS pharmacy team where relevant
You will be based within the wider EPR team in Health Informatics and there is possibility for remote / home working where appropriate . For further details please get in touch
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Be the Pharmacy lead to facilitate current and future state design work to establish a design for electronic prescribing and medicines usage.
- To liaise with multidisciplinary clinical teams across both trusts on matters relating to e-prescribing.
- To ensure all processes relating to e-prescribing are safe and appropriate.
- To audit the prescribing elements of the EPR to ensure continuous improvement and adaptation of the system in order to meet clinical needs.
- To continue to develop EPR to support the implementation and use of agreed clinical protocols.
- To lead on the configuration & support of electronic prescribing within the Trust.
- To assist in the delivery, maintenance and support of EPR
- To be responsible for providing the highly specialist knowledge required to ensure that the Trust's EPR electronic prescribing system promotes the safe and effective use of medicines.
- To be the main interface and point of contact between Pharmacy and the EPR Team
- To gather and provide input from clinical users of the EPR electronic prescribing system to improve the functionality of electronic prescribing
- To promote and implement electronic prescribing in an effective and positive manner appropriate to clinical groups and to assist the Training team/Digital Change management team in the training of Pharmacy EPR users
- To attain and maintain expert EPR user status configuration functional and associated work practices
- work collaboratively with EMIS pharmacy team where relevant
You will be based within the wider EPR team in Health Informatics and there is possibility for remote / home working where appropriate . For further details please get in touch
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm or equivalent
- Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate Diploma or Postgraduate Masters Degree in Clinical Pharmacy or the equivalent degree of experience in a specific clinical area of practice at an advanced level.
Desirable
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and working towards or having achieved Faculty accreditation
- Certificate in Independent & Supplementary Prescribing
- Relevant management qualification or equivalent experience
- Service improvement qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
- Understanding of equality and diversity issues and how this affects patients, visitors and staff
- Understanding of what the NHS Constitution means to you, and your responsibilities to the public, patients and colleagues
- Broad knowledge of therapeutics
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the formulation, preparation and therapeutic action of medicines
- Good knowledge and understanding of ? Digital technology EPMA systems to improve medicines optimisation and patient safety ? A wide range of disease states and their treatments ? HR policies. ? Government health polices and legislation in relation to the relevant area.
Desirable
- Knowledge of E-Prescribing solutions and the potential benefits and challenges of their use
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working in a UK Hospital in clinical pharmacy service delivery
- Demonstrates continued professional development or equivalent knowledge through extensive experience
- Line management of staff and/or mentoring/supervising pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
Desirable
- Experience of leading service improvement activities or process redesign
- Experience of leading or participating in an e-prescribing or EPR implementation on behalf of pharmacy
- Experience of working across a broad spectrum of clinical areas
- Experience of process mapping
- Experience in staff recruitment
- Experience in carrying out staff appraisals, performance development reviews and performance management
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm or equivalent
- Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Postgraduate Diploma or Postgraduate Masters Degree in Clinical Pharmacy or the equivalent degree of experience in a specific clinical area of practice at an advanced level.
Desirable
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain and working towards or having achieved Faculty accreditation
- Certificate in Independent & Supplementary Prescribing
- Relevant management qualification or equivalent experience
- Service improvement qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
- Understanding of equality and diversity issues and how this affects patients, visitors and staff
- Understanding of what the NHS Constitution means to you, and your responsibilities to the public, patients and colleagues
- Broad knowledge of therapeutics
- Comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the formulation, preparation and therapeutic action of medicines
- Good knowledge and understanding of ? Digital technology EPMA systems to improve medicines optimisation and patient safety ? A wide range of disease states and their treatments ? HR policies. ? Government health polices and legislation in relation to the relevant area.
Desirable
- Knowledge of E-Prescribing solutions and the potential benefits and challenges of their use
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience of working in a UK Hospital in clinical pharmacy service delivery
- Demonstrates continued professional development or equivalent knowledge through extensive experience
- Line management of staff and/or mentoring/supervising pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
Desirable
- Experience of leading service improvement activities or process redesign
- Experience of leading or participating in an e-prescribing or EPR implementation on behalf of pharmacy
- Experience of working across a broad spectrum of clinical areas
- Experience of process mapping
- Experience in staff recruitment
- Experience in carrying out staff appraisals, performance development reviews and performance management
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.
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).
Additional information
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.
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).
