Lead Pharmacist - Digital Medicines and EPMA

Job description Job responsibilities Provide senior professional leadership for Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) across Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, ensuring it supports safe, effective, and efficient use of medicines. Act as the Trusts lead pharmacy professional for EPMA, providing expert advice to senior pharmacy, clinical, digital, and corporate leaders on digital medicines strategy, system capability, risks, and opportunities. Lead and contribute to Trust and directorate-level EPMA governance structures, ensuring robust clinical oversight, accountability, and alignment with national guidance and organisational priorities. Influence the strategic development of digital medicines and EPR programmes, ensuring pharmacy and medicines safety requirements are embedded within wider digital transformation plans. Maintain overall responsibility for the configuration, maintenance, and ongoing development of the EPMA system, including prescribing content, order sets, administration workflows, clinical decision support, and system parameters. Project manage all EPMA upgrades, enhancements, and system changes, ensuring appropriate testing, validation, user engagement, and golive support. Oversee system testing and quality assurance, ensuring all changes are clinically safe, technically sound, and fit for realworld clinical practice. Manage EPMA data integrity, including regular audit of medicines files, order sets, and system rules, to ensure accuracy, usability, and patient safety. Lead clinical risk management for EPMA, including hazard identification, mitigation planning, incident investigation, and learning from errors or near misses. Develop and maintain EPMA downtime and business continuity arrangements, ensuring continuity of safe medicines practice during system outages or degradation. Analyse prescribing and administration data, particularly for highrisk medicines, to identify trends, risks, and areas for quality improvement. Ensure EPMA practice reflects national safety alerts, professional standards, and best practice guidance, responding proactively to emerging risks. Develop, coordinate, and evaluate a comprehensive EPMA training strategy for prescribers, nurses, pharmacy staff, and other system users. Work closely with clinical, education, and operational teams to support adoption, standardisation, and effective use of EPMA across all sites and specialties. Act as a senior digital change leader, supporting services through workflow redesign, behavioural change, and postimplementation optimisation. Lead and manage relationships with EPMA system suppliers, IT services, and external partners, ensuring effective communication, issue resolution, and service improvement. Work collaboratively with pharmacy leaders, clinicians, finance teams, and operational managers to support medicines safety, quality, and financial stewardship. Contribute to the development and use of EPMA reporting to inform clinical governance, audit, service planning, and performance management. Provide an advanced specialist clinical pharmacy service to a designated clinical specialty in line with Trust policy and professional standards. Maintain personal clinical competence through direct patient care, including medicines reconciliation, pharmaceutical care planning, therapeutic monitoring, and patient counselling. Participate in multidisciplinary ward rounds, clinical meetings, and service development within the allocated specialty. Provide professional leadership, supervision, and support to pharmacy staff and trainees, contributing to appraisal, development, and workforce capability. Contribute to education and training programmes for pharmacy, medical, nursing, and allied health professionals. Undertake and support audit, evaluation, and practice research, contributing to service improvement and professional dissemination where appropriate. Act in accordance with Trust policies, legislation, and professional standards, maintaining confidentiality, data security, and information governance. Uphold Trust values and actively promote equity, diversity, and inclusion in leadership practice and service delivery. Participate in ongoing professional development and contribute to the continuous improvement of pharmacy and digital medicines services.