Deputy Pharmacy Systems Manager

NHS; Hereford; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Wye Valley NHS Trust is seeking a Pharmacy Systems and Data Analyst to join the team at Hereford County Hospital. You will manage and improve pharmacy information systems, ensuring safe procurement, stock control and dispensing data while supporting service improvements across the Trust.

You will maintain databases, generate reports, and train users, working closely with the Pharmacy Systems Manager and Procurement. A UK NHS environment background is essential.

Qualifications

• Information management/IT degree or equivalent experience
• Five GCSEs (grade C/4 or above) including English and Maths
• Level 2 in Pharmacy Services or willingness to work towards this within agreed timeframe

Responsibilities

• Support management of pharmacy information systems and data.
• Develop/maintain pharmacy databases, enabling procurement, stock control and dispensing data.
• Produce high-quality reports, SOPs and provide user training.
• Deputise for the Pharmacy Systems Manager as needed.

Skills

Performance reporting

Data analysis

Report generation

Office productivity software

Database query skills

Numerical skills

Knowledge of Pharmacy practices

Education

Information Management/IT degree or equivalent

5 GCSEs (Grade C/4 or above) including English, Maths

Level 2 in Pharmacy Services or willingness to work towards this

Job description

Main area pharmacy Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekend/BH working on rota basis. O/C commitment also on rota basis (optional)) Job ref 229-CS-8415950

Site Hereford County Hospital Town Hereford Salary £32,073 - £39,043 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 20/11/2026 23:59

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Wye Valley NHS Trust Pharmacy team in a key role supporting the management and delivery of pharmacy information and ICT systems.

The post holder will play a vital role in maintaining and developing pharmacy databases and digital systems to ensure the safe, efficient, and financially responsible procurement, labelling, and supply of medicines across the Trust. Working closely with the Pharmacy Systems Manager and Procurement team, you will help ensure high-quality data, support service improvement, and enable informed decision-making aligned with Trust and wider NHS strategies.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the Pharmacy Systems Manager in the safe, reliable and effective management of pharmacy digital systems and associated data. The role will maintain and develop key systems and relevant automated dispensing technologies, so that pharmacy services have accurate, current and resource-efficient information for medicine procurement, stock control, dispensing, labelling and supply.

Working with Pharmacy, Procurement, clinical teams, Digital and Information colleagues and external suppliers, the post holder will investigate system and data issues, maintain documentation and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), deliver user training, support upgrades and service developments, and produce high-quality reports. The post holder will deputise for the Pharmacy Systems Manager within an agreed scope and elevate material risks, service interruptions and decisions outside that scope.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

for more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Information Management/IT related degree or equivalent relevant experience
• 5 GCSEs (Grade C/4 or above) or equivalent including English, Maths
• Level 2 in Pharmacy Services or willingness to work towards this within agreed timeframe

Skills

• Performance reporting, data analysis and interpretation, and report generation
• Intermediate/advanced use of office productivity software and advanced keyboard skills
• Intermediate/advanced database query skills using database functions and/or query languages
• Numerical skills with high attention to detail and ability to produce information to a consistently high standard
• Knowledge and understanding of Pharmacy practices and procedures

Experience

• Proven experience in a data or information analysis role
• Demonstrable experience of database management, analysis, maintenance and development
• Working within an NHS information/ data analysis or admin role

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.