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Job overview
Are you an experienced pharmacist with a passion for digital healthcare, electronic prescribing and improving patient safety?
Southmead Hospital Operational Unit (SHOU), part of Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, has recently implemented EPMA moving into the maintenance and optimisation stage of our journey.
We are recruiting to two distinct Band 8a roles within our growing Pharmacy EPMA team. Both positions combine advanced clinical pharmacy practice with digital transformation and medicines optimisation, while offering different specialist career pathways.
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These are unique opportunities to join a forward-thinking Pharmacy EPMA team at an exciting time of organisational transformation. Whether your interest is in clinical safety and governance or EPMA development and optimisation, you will play a key role in shaping the future of digital medicines across Southmead Hospital and the wider Bristol NHS Foundation Trust.
Working for our organisation
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.
With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Highly Specialist EPMA Pharmacist
This role focuses on Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) development, optimisation and clinical transformation. You will lead the ongoing development of the SHOU EPMA system, ensuring it supports safe, efficient and effective prescribing and medicines administration.
Working closely with colleagues across pharmacy, digital services, system suppliers and clinical teams, you will use your clinical expertise to shape system design, improve workflows and support large-scale digital change.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading development, optimisation and maintenance of the EPMA system.
- Configuring and validating prescribing and clinical decision-support functionality.
- Analysing and redesigning clinical workflows.
- Supporting implementation, testing and deployment of digital solutions.
- Providing specialist clinical input into digital transformation projects.
- Leading service improvement and clinical transformation initiatives.
- Supervising and developing pharmacists, technicians and trainees.
- Maintaining a clinical pharmacy role while supporting digital transformation
2. Highly Specialist Digital Pharmacist – Clinical Safety & Medicines Governance
This role focuses on digital clinical safety, medicines governance and risk management. Working collaboratively across pharmacy, digital services and clinical teams, you will lead the safe governance of medication-related digital systems and ensure patient safety remains at the centre of digital transformation.
You will act as a Clinical Safety Officer, support compliance with national clinical safety standards, lead risk management activities and contribute to the development of safe, effective digital medicines systems.
Key responsibilities include:
- Leading clinical safety and governance for digital medicines systems.
- Acting as Clinical Safety Officer for medication-related systems.
- Managing clinical risk assessments, hazard logs and safety documentation.
- Leading learning from digital and medication-related incidents.
- Supporting medicines safety initiatives and digital transformation programmes.
- Providing expert advice on medicines governance, patient safety and clinical risk management.
- Delivering training and development for pharmacy and multidisciplinary teams.
- Maintaining a clinical pharmacy role alongside governance responsibilities.
See the job descriptions and person specifications for both roles for further details.
When applying please state in you Supporting Information if you are applying for one or both roles. Interviews for both posts will be undertaken at the same time.
We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together.
· As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
· The Trust is committed to investing in and caring for all our staff. We will support you in maintaining and improving your health and wellbeing, as well as your career development through management and training support - developing exceptional people for exceptional careers.
· BFT is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people, and vulnerable adults.
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Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore, please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
As a guide interviews should usually take place within 3 weeks of the closing date.
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