Digital Medicines Specialist

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Seaton Delaval; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an experienced registered health care professional to join our Digital Medicines Team, bridging clinical practice and digital services to shape ePMA systems across the organisation.

You will collaborate with clinical and multidisciplinary digital services colleagues to implement and optimise digital medicines solutions, drive service improvement, and ensure systems support patient care and clinical workflows while meeting safety standards.

Responsibilities

• Develop, configure, test and optimise electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) systems.
• Support safe, effective digital medicines services by aligning configurations with clinical workflows and safety standards.
• Provide expert training and advisory support to clinical and operational staff within the Digital Medicines Team.

Job description

We are seeking an experienced, innovative, and forward-thinking registered health care professional to join our team in a role that integrates medicines and clinical knowledge with digital transformation. Positioned at the interface between clinical practice and digital services, this role offers an exciting opportunity to shape the development, implementation, and optimisation of digital medicines systems across the organisation.

The postholder will work collaboratively with clinical teams and multidisciplinary digital services colleagues, including Software Development, Project Delivery, Change Management, IT Training, and Clinical Safety teams, to support the safe, effective, and user-centred implementation of digital medicines solutions. The successful candidate will act as a digital medicines expert, championing best practice, driving service improvement, and ensuring digital systems enhance both patient care and clinical workflow.

The post holder will provide specialist expertise in the development, configuration, testing and optimisation of electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) systems.

The role will support the delivery of safe, effective and efficient digital medicines services by undertaking system configuration, validation, testing and user support activities, ensuring systems are aligned to clinical workflows, medicines policy and safety standards.

Working as part of the Digital Medicines Team, the post holder will contribute to system improvements, upgrades and deployments, supporting service development and ensuring compliance with clinical safety standards (DCB0129/DCB0160).

The post holder will act as a subject matter expert for digital medicines systems, providing advice, support and training to clinical and operational staff, and contributing to the continuous improvement of digital medicines services.

There will be a requirement to maintain a level of clinical practice within their area of professional registration

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!

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sarah Chandler Job title: Deputy Chief Pharmacist / Digital Medicines Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07500 783229