Chief Pharmacy Technician - ePMA & Digital Services

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust; Kingston; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced Senior Pharmacy Technician to join the Pharmacy Digital and Informatics Team as Chief Technician, ePMA. The role focuses on maintaining and optimising the EPMA system to improve prescribing and patient safety.

You’ll train staff, work with multidisciplinary teams, and help design system changes, with opportunities to develop specialist ePMA skills while retaining dispensary experience.

Qualifications

• Experience as a senior pharmacy technician with a focus on digital health and EPMA.
• Ability to train and support multidisciplinary staff on digital systems.
• Proven experience designing system changes to support safe prescribing.
• Collaborative approach with pharmacy and digital teams on projects and upgrades.
• Ability to develop prescribing protocols and decision support tools.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimise the Trust EPMA systems as part of Pharmacy Digital Team.
• Provide expert training and support to multidisciplinary staff using EPMA.
• Work with teams to design and implement system changes for safe prescribing.
• Collaborate on projects, upgrades, testing and configuration.
• Contribute to medication safety initiatives through design and QA activities.

Skills

Digital health

Training & education

Cross-functional collaboration

Prescribing safety

System design & configuration

Education

Registered Pharmacy Technician

Tools

Oracle Cerner Millenium EPMA

Job description

Pharmacy and digital might not be two things you immediately put together, but this role brings both together.

We’re looking for an experienced Senior Pharmacy Technician with a passion for digital healthcare to join us as Chief Technician, ePMA.

As part of our Pharmacy Digital and Informatics Team, you’ll help maintain, develop and optimise our ePMA system, working across the Trust to improve prescribing and patient safety.

You’ll support and train colleagues, contribute to multidisciplinary discussions and digital projects, and help solve problems as they arise. We’re looking for someone who communicates clearly, can make training engaging and enjoys finding better ways of doing things.

With healthcare becoming increasingly digital, this is an opportunity to build specialist ePMA skills while using your pharmacy knowledge to improve how medicines are prescribed and administered.

You’ll also retain your operational pharmacy experience in the dispensary, although the majority of the role will focus on digital medicines systems and supporting the people who use them.

• To help maintain and optimise our Trust Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) systems as an integral member of the Pharmacy Digital Team.
• Provide expert training and support to multidisciplinary staff using the Trust Oracle Cerner Millenium EPMA system.
• Working with multidisciplinary teams to design and implement system changes to promote safe prescribing in line with Trust clinical guidelines.
• Work in collaboration with the wider Trust Digital Teams on projects, system upgrades and configuration and regression testing.
• Design, build and implement prescribing protocols, order sets and clinical decision support tools in line with Trust guidelines.
• Contribute to medication safety initiatives through system design, audit and continuous quality improvement.

We work closely with colleagues across the wider multidisciplinary team, so you won’t be tucked away behind a computer working on ePMA in isolation. You’ll get to know people across different professions and specialties and become someone colleagues turn to when they need help navigating our digital systems.

And, because this is a role that sits between pharmacy, people and digital, there’s a real opportunity to learn. You’ll be surrounded by experienced pharmacy colleagues while also building relationships with teams across the Trust, giving you exposure to areas you might not ordinarily encounter in a traditional pharmacy technician role.

We want you to feel comfortable asking questions, sharing ideas and challenging the way we do things. If you spot something that could work better, we want to hear about it.

Kingston & Richmond NHS Foundation Trust Pharmacy Department provides a high quality, professional pharmacy service and has a strong track record in delivery quality and innovative services. Both the Pharmacy Department and the Trust have a long-standing reputation for being a friendly, rewarding and compassionate place to work.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Annette Nicholson Job title: Principal Pharmacist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 020 8934 2090