Digital Medicines Pharmacy Specialist

7 months ago

Truro, United Kingdom Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

The Pharmacy Department at Royal Cornwall Hospital is delighted to be able to offer this exciting position in our Digital Medicines team. The award winning RCHT Digital Medicines team is one of the national leaders in digital pharmacy systems and has successfully rolled out our EPMA solution across Cornwall in a unique partnership with our sister Trust.

The Trust is about to embark on the implementation of its new Electronic Patient Record (EPR). This challenging programme is the largest clinical system transformation programme the Trust has undertaken and is key to the Trust’s Strategy and aims to fundamentally transform ways of working.

The Royal Cornwall Hospital pharmacy department is a forward thinking and friendly team. We provide an innovative clinical pharmacy service, combining technology and clinical pharmacy expertise. We are a recognised national leader for innovation in fields such as antimicrobial resistance and the adoption of Scan4Safety standards. All these functions are supported by an excellent wholesale dealer supply service, a well-equipped licensed pharmacy technical services unit and the full range of medicines optimisation support services including medicines information, education and training, formulary support and digital medicines. We have also recently had the funding for a new pharmacy department confirmed as part of an exciting investment which includes a new Women’s and Children’s hospital.

This is a fulltime post of 37.5 hours per week, however flexible working and job-share will be considered.

The Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) is the main provider of acute and specialist care services in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We serve a population of around 500,000 people - a figure that can increase significantly with visitors during the busiest times of the year. We employ approximately 6,700 staff and have a budget of approximately £580 million.

We are a teaching hospital in partnership with the University of Exeter Medical School, University of Plymouth School of Nursing and Midwifery, and Peninsula Dental School.

The Knowledge Spa on the Royal Cornwall Hospital site is the base for medical and nursing as well as ongoing education for health professions in clinical and non-clinical roles.

Keeping at the forefront of medical advances, we are continually developing our clinical services as well as our facilities and are committed to maximising the range of specialist care that can be offered locally. Allied to this is a growing reputation for research and innovation.

Cornwall is a wonderful place to live, offering an excellent quality of life and a truly stunning environment to live in. We have a vision of an integrated Cornwall pharmacy service and will expect our pharmacy staff to work across organisational boundaries to achieve the best outcomes for our patients. Please watch our pharmacy recruitment video youtu.be/niO0oD3_Acw

Job Purpose

Act as a Digital Medicines specialist, maintain and develop high quality, consistent, patient-focused services to system users in conjunction other Digital Medicines staff.

Provide a Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Service, including enquiry answering service for Digital Medicine related queries from other members of the Pharmacy team, wards and clinics.

Provide specialist advice on the use of Digital Medicines systems to end user and inform clinicians, service providers and governance structures of current and future capabilities of systems to enhance patient safety.

Define and develop test plans for Digital Medicines systems to ensure safety of upgrades and new functionality.

Maintain a patient focused approach to all aspects of system design and development.

Assist in the design, development, testing and implementation of systems within the Trust, to ensure the safe, economic and clinically effective use of medications in all patients in line with local and national initiatives.

Identify new opportunities for the development of Pharmacy Services and assist in the preparation of business cases to support these developments.

Create, update and maintain appropriate system documentation, and contributing to policies governing the use of systems and access control.

Ensure highly complex Digital Medicines systems and equipment are well maintained and used in accordance with relevant guidance and policies referring to IT services or system support services as appropriate.

Provide quality assurance for new developments within EPMA and other clinical systems.

Create functional requirement documents for proposed EPMA and other clinical systems development work.

Working with medical staff to formulate medicine policies and guidelines that promote rational & economical prescribing. Monitoring practice to ensure policies and guidelines are adhered to.

Working with relevant staff to reduce risks in medicine prescribing, storage & administration. Ensuring legal requirements are met. Reporting of clinical incidents

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