[Hiring] Advanced Pharmacist – Digital Medicines and System Integrations @Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Role Description

The post holder will be involved in the Nova Project to support the implementation of a new single EPR system shared across Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust (MSEFT) and Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (EPUT).

This post offers excellent professional growth opportunities, including internal secondments to Digital, Clinical Safety, and Transformation teams to support enterprise-wide digital initiatives.

Specifically, the post holder will:

• Lead a first-of-type project to develop new interoperability capability between the Trust’s EPR system and the pharmacy stock control system.
• Provide expert leadership across requirements investigation, technical design, supplier coordination, testing, and clinical safety assurance to deliver a safe, standards-based outbound messaging workflow.
• Modernise inpatient, discharge, and outpatient medicines processes by replacing manual communication with automated digital workflows, improving visibility, reducing errors, and enhancing patient safety.
• Act as the Trust's specialist for this integration and produce a reusable blueprint to support wider NHS adoption projects to develop new interoperability-based outbound messaging workflows including medicines-related digital pathways that are clinically robust, user-centred, and aligned with national standards.

Qualifications

• Expert clinical and digital medicines input to ensure safe workflow design.
• Experience in supporting clinical safety assessments, hazard logs, and safety case documentation.
• Ability to deputise for Lead pharmacist (EPMA) at EPMA project board and represent Pharmacy in other EPMA forums when required.
• Experience in reviewing new digital workflows to ensure they support safe prescribing, ordering, and supply processes.
• Support for the EPMA project group to develop and implement contingency plans to ensure patient safety and service delivery are maintained during planned downtime or in the event of system failure.

Requirements

Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.

Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values. The use of AI in applications is monitored, and candidates are required to declare if AI has been used before submitting their application.

Benefits

• Opportunities for professional growth and internal secondments.
• Supportive and inclusive culture that values every individual’s contribution.