Chief Technician - Electronic Prescribing (EPMA)

at  Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

We have a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic, highly motivated and experienced pharmacy technician, to join our new EPMA team at one of the largest and busiest tertiary referral teaching trusts in the country.
Under the direction of the Lead Pharmacist and as part of the wider pharmacy and multidisciplinary team you will use your technical pharmacy knowledge in the system build, configuration and on-going maintenance of this exciting technology, ensuring pharmacy and the wider hospital realise its full potential to improve medicines optimisation and patient safety.
The successful candidate will have an interest in IT systems, be able to work independently as well as part of a team, be conscientious, and be able to prioritise their own workload effectively while displaying excellent attention to detail. You will have good communication skills and be confident in the multi-disciplinary environment. A strong clinical background and experience of other IT prescribing systems or information manipulation would be an advantage.
Under the leadership and direction of the Lead Pharmacist – Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA):
Responsible for the development, configuration, testing, implementation, on-going maintenance and management of the Trust’s EPMA system and relevant digital medicines systems.
To work with the Lead EPMA Pharmacist and the multi-disciplinary EPMA project and Digital Nurse teams in delivering the outputs required for implementation project and ongoing optimisation and support; ensuring robust, safe, effective, auditable processes and systems are in place in line with national standards and local policy and procedures. This will involve assisting in, and leading on some aspects of the support, maintenance and development of the EPMA and relevant digital medicines systems and being responsible for the day to day management.
To proactively lead, develop co-ordinate and deliver any aspect of pharmacy education /training on how Pharmacy staff interact with the EPMA system to perform their duties.
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
NUH has had a long standing and multi award winning partnership with Nervecentre our EPMA provider.
With over 17,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career

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