Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Digital Medicines Specialist
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About the Role
We have a great opportunity for a highly motivated, forward-thinking Pharmacist or Pharmacy Technician to join a developing Digital Medicines team at a pivotal stage in the Trust's Digital transformation programme. The role sits at the interface of clinical practice, medicines optimisation, and digital transformation, providing digital leadership to support the ongoing developments associated with electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (ePMA) and the wider Digital Medicines functionality and interoperability.
Led by the Digital Medicines Programme lead, you will be responsible for leading on defined elements of Digital Medicines workstreams, providing expert input into system design, configuration, optimisation, interoperability, and governance. This ensures they are clinically safe, effective, and aligned with real-world workflows.
Working closely with pharmacy, medical, nursing, and digital colleagues, you will provide expertise to guide system development, support adoption, and ensure that digital solutions are appropriately embedded within practice.
The role combines leadership with clinical and operational delivery, ensuring digital medicines systems continue to evolve in response to clinical need while maintaining the highest standards of patient safety and governance. You will play a role in clinical safety assurance and continuous service improvement, championing best practice in digital medicines management and ensuring technology enhances patient safety.
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The post holder will provide operational leadership and management of the Trust’s Digital Medicines service, supporting the delivery, optimisation and governance of electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) systems.
The role will be responsible for the day-to-day management and continuous improvement of digital medicines services, ensuring systems are safe, effective, and aligned with clinical and organisational requirements.
Working within the strategic framework set by senior leadership, the post holder will lead the delivery of system developments, testing, deployment, and optimisation activities, ensuring compliance with clinical safety standards (DCB0129/DCB0160) and governance processes.
The post holder will work closely with clinical, digital, and operational teams to support service improvement, user adoption, and system performance, contributing to the wider digital medicines strategy.
The role provides line management and professional leadership to digital medicines staff and contributes to programme delivery across the organisation.
There will be a requirement to maintain a level of clinical practice within their area of professional registration.
About Us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck, and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost-effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well, it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read ‘applicant guidance notes’ before submitting your application.
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Sarah Chandler
- Job title: Deputy Chief Pharmacist / Digital Medicines Lead
- Email address: sarah.chandler@nhct.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 07500 783229
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential
- Registered as a healthcare professional with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Educated to degree level or equivalent and with significant post-registration experience to diploma level, or equivalent demonstrating advanced and specialist knowledge in clinical informatics
- Evidence of continuing professional development relevant to digital medicines, informatics, or leadership
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