Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Pharmacist - Digital Medicines, ePR and ePMA

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Lead Pharmacist – Digital Medicines EPMA/EPR
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.
The role will involve leading complex Trust-wide digital medicines workstreams across inpatient, outpatient, day-case and relevant cross-organisational pathways, translating strategic, clinical, operational and medicines governance requirements into safe digital medicines standards, system design principles, workflows, testing strategies, training requirements, benefits measures and optimisation priorities.
You will work closely with the Director of Pharmacy, current Lead Pharmacist – Digital, Medicines Safety Officer, Chief Clinical Information Officer, EPR Programme Team, Patient Systems Team, pharmacy leadership team, clinical services, digital colleagues, suppliers and regional partners.
In This Senior Leadership Role, You Will
- 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, DCB 0160 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.
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About Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT)
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.


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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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Sara Abbas-Llewelyn
Job title: Lead Pharmacist - Digital Medicines, ePR and ePMA
Email address: sara.abbas-llewelyn@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01423 553164
Kate Woodrow
Chief Pharmacist and CDAO
Email address: kate.woodrow@nhs.net
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