Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Digital Systems

Transformationunitgm; London; On-site; GBP 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is looking for a Band 8a Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to join its Clinical Informatics Team at the Royal London Hospital. This permanent position focuses on the optimisation of clinical systems, ensuring efficiency and excellence in patient care. The ideal candidate should have significant hospital experience, advanced project management skills, and a mastery of communication to lead effective change.

Qualifications

• Significant experience post registration in a hospital based post required.
• Previous significant experience of working with clinical IT systems, including ePMA.
• Experience leading projects and managing staff.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the development and optimisation of electronic prescribing.
• Ensure patient safety and data accuracy of clinical systems.
• Support the pharmacy team with digital initiatives.

Skills

Communication

Project Management Skills

Risk Management

Data Analysis

Influencing Change

Education

MPharm (Master’s Degree)

Job description

Employer Barts Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal London Hospital Town London Salary £61,927 - £68,676 Per annum inc pro rata (pay award pending) Salary period Yearly Closing 25/06/2025 23:59 Interview date 09/07/2025

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Digital Systems

Band 8a

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced pharmacist to join our Clinical Informatics Team in a job share capacity (2.5 days per week) as a Band 8a pharmacist on a permanent basis. The successful candidate will be based at the Royal London Hospital and will play a key role in the Trust-wide optimisation of clinical systems, ensuring efficiency and excellence in patient care.

Interview date: 9th July 2025

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assist the Lead Pharmacist, Informatics with the development and optimisation of electronic prescribing within the Trust, in conjunction with the Head of IT Projects and the EPR team. They will assist with the implementation of any new digital medicines’ initiatives and support the pharmacy team in developing, validating and maintaining the wider pharmacy digital systems operated by the department.

They will ensure patient safety, security of access, system availability and that data accuracy is delivered by the system(s) and meets the requirements of the Trust, its patients and clinical staff.

Working for our organisation

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are underrepresented within Barts Health at this band.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person specification

Experience

• Significant experience post registration in a hospital based post
• Previous significant experience of working with clinical IT systems, including ePMA
• Experience of working with clinicians and a proven track record for influencing change
• Writing and presenting complex reports
• Successful experience of managing & leading projects
• Practical experience of setting up and configuring EPMA and associated functionality
• Experience of successfully managing staff, performing appraisals and giving feedback

Skills

• Be able to provide highly complex ePMA information and impart knowledge to all levels of healthcare professionals (up to and including senior consultants/professor level)
• Able to communicate complex information effectively in both written and verbal formats with staff and patients
• Demonstrates an ability to plan, prioritise and organise own workload, to work under pressure and act with autonomy whilst retaining a sense of own capabilities and escalate when necessary
• Demonstrates an ability to analyse and interpret data
• Demonstrates an understanding of risk management
• Assertive, diplomatic, persuasive with ability to negotiate
• Able to plan, prioritise, organise self and work unsupervised according to changing demands
• Demonstrates Project Management Skills

Knowledge

• Knowledge of regulations and legislation relevant to EPMA
• In depth knowledge of medicines administration processes and medicines management
• Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of safe pharmacy practice including Medicines legislation and professional code of ethics
• Knowledge of national digital strategy for the NHS
• Up to date knowledge of legislation relevant to pharmacy practice, e.g. controlled drugs, Health and Safety at Work
• Understands the importance of adherence to SOPs and legislation
• Demonstrates a good understanding of patient safety initiatives
• Ability to provide complex information and guidance on medicines use, clinical pharmacy and financial issues clearly and concisely

Qualifications

• MPharm (Master’s Degree)

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect. We aim to create an equitable working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals’ who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications has been received and we regret that we are unable to provide notification if your application is unsuccessful.

After applying via NHS Jobs, your submitted application will be imported into our preferred Third party recruitment system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from apps.trac.jobs.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Barts Heath NHS Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Barts Health is committed to safeguarding the welfare of children and to child protection. The Trust aims to ensure as far as is possible that anyone, paid or unpaid, who seeks to work in our organisation and who gains access to children, is safe to do so. As such, you may be required to undertake a Disclosure and Barring Check as part of the recruitment process if appointed to a post with direct access to children or vulnerable adults.

Barts Health promotes active travel as part of its goal to reach Net Zero. Each site is accessible by public transport and the Trust has a cycle to work scheme and some sites have Brompton Hire Pods.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.