Job summary
- Main area
- Digital Medicine
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (fixed term contract/secondment opportunity)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 252-7490715-A
- Employer
- Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Darent Valley Hospital
- Town
- Dartford
- Salary
- £57,888 - £64,880 per annum inclusive of allowances
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Digital Medicines Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
12 month fixed term or secondment opportunity
Could you be our new Digital Medicines Lead?
- Are you passionate about improving medication safety, but looking to be able to deliver that at a whole-system level?
- Do you believe that digital transformation is as much about people and processes as it is about technology?
- Are you an experienced pharmacy professional with a strong background of leadership in the multidisciplinary team?
If it's a yes to all of that, you could be the perfect person to join the Digital Transformation Team, and be the clinical and operational lead for our BetterMeds ePMA system!
This position will not be supported for visa sponsorship. All applicants are expected to have valid right to work document to work in the UK when applying for this position.
Main duties of the job
The postholder will be responsible for all medicines optimisation aspects of the Trust Electronic Patient Record (EPR), including , but not limited to, being the Trust lead for our inpatient ePMA system, BetterMeds. This will include wider deployment of the system into new specialities, continuous improvement and optimisation of the live system, and leading the clinical governance processes that wrap around digital medicines.
You will be the professional link between the Trust EPR programme and Pharmacy Services, being part of the clinical leadership and clinical safety team for our EPR, and supporting ePMA maintenance and development.
Your role will also involve supporting and training other members of the Digital Health Team to ensure our ePMA and wider digital medicines ecosystem has robust and resilient support that addresses the needs of the whole clinical team.
The post-holder will have a specific focus on our Trust strategic pillar 'Journey to Outstanding', and the enabling pillars of Digital and Data.
Working for our organisation
We are committed to being an inclusive and diverse employer. We strive to employ people who reflect the communities we serve, and aim to create an inclusive culture where everyone can reach their full potential. Whatever your race, ethnicity, belief, generation, sexual orientation, gender or gender identity, disability or experience, you’ll appreciate the opportunities we give you to work in an inclusive atmosphere. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences to build on the progress we’ve achieved to make our Trust diverse and the best place to work. We celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that help us overcome challenges and embrace new possibilities. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant Pledge and have a commitment to the Armed Forces Community.
We are dedicated to using our Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) approach as our shared organisation model of change to enhance our services and ensure excellence in patient care.
If you are considering applying for a role, please be aware that as an NHS Employee you may have contact with vulnerable service users. We strongly encourage that all our staff are vaccinated against COVID-19 and are vaccinated annually against Flu, in order to protect the health and safety of our staff and patients. Your commitment will help us to put the safety and care of our patients first, as well as helping us to protect you and your colleagues.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Specific Responsibilities
Digital Medicines Optimisation & Governance
Responsible for ensuring that all elements of ePMA workstreams, and the wider EPR programme, give due consideration to key medication safety priority areas, supporting the Trust’s wider medication safety agenda.
Liaise with clinicians across the organisation, to ensure ePMA supports medicines optimisation.
Ensure that appropriate highly-specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines expertise is engaged where required to inform the development of speciality systems.
Work closely with Trust Medication Safety Office (MSO) and clinical governance teams regarding medication risk, near-misses, and errors involving the EPMA system.
Work with Business Intelligence team to ensure ePMA delivers improved reporting functionality to support enhancements in medicines optimisation, with a particular focus on safety
Actively participate in configuration and maintenance of ePMA systems, working with the Senior ePMA Pharmacy Technician and other members of the MDT, and colleagues at vendor companies such as Alcidion.
Where ePMA is identified as a contributory factor in medication incidents ensure this is reported via the Yellow Card system.
Responsible for writing and maintaining elements of Trust-wide policy pertaining to digital medicines optimisation.
Please see attached job description for further information
Person specification
Education and Training
Essential criteria
- Educated to degree level, or able to demonstrate equivalent level of knowledge, experience, and understanding
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Medicines management qualification
- Masters level degree in relevant subject or equivalent experience
- Evidence of ongoing CPD
Desirable criteria
- Leadership qualification
- Clinical Safety qualification
- Project or programme management qualification, or equivalent experience
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- In-depth knowledge of medicines safety and hospital pharmacy clinical and operational processes and procedures
- Knowledge and understanding of key digital medicines principles including interoperability standards such as dm+d, and DCB clinical safety processes
- Good data analysis skills, including manipulation of quantitative data and understanding of qualitative analysis techniques
- Good understanding of operational issues in a large NHS organisation
- Ability to work independently and analyse complex problems as they arise, prioritising own workload with self-direction
- High level computer skills in the use of spreadsheets, word processing, presentation software, risk management software, project management software
- Excellent time management skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills, including engagement and influencing skills.
- Excellent communication skills, both written (reports and presentation slide decks) and verbal
- Able to remain calm and focused under pressure
- Project management skills
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of safety science and principles of human factors in healthcare
- Understanding of key elements of developing and implementing digital clinical systems
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience in NHS hospital pharmacy, including leadership roles
- Experience in use of an ePMA system, preferably in secondary care
- Experience in processes for deploying a new ePMA system
- Experience in elements of medicines governance and safety, including medication incident investigation
- Previous experience of training delivery and facilitating learning
- Experience of direct line management and HR processes
- Experience of overseeing projects or programmes, monitoring tasks and issues to enable a proactive mitigation and escalation process
Personal Attributes
Essential criteria
- Flexible and adaptable, working on-site and remotely depending on the service needs
- Able to set and sustain the pace of complex change, and develop strategy and vision
- Can evidence innovative and strategic thinking abilities
- Innovative thinker
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julia Scott
- Job title
- Associate Director of Clinical Quality
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01322 428100
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