Job Summary
**Fixed term for 23 months**
**Contract commences 1st December 2026**
**Lead the future of digital medicines at HDFT**
**Interviews will be held on 23rd July 2026**

Are you an experienced Pharmacist with a passion for digital transformation, medicines safety and improving patient care? This is an exciting opportunity to join Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust as our Senior Digital Medicines Lead - EPMA, supporting the implementation of NerveCentre EPMA as part of the Trust's strategic implementation of the wider NerveCentre Electronic Patient Record. This high-profile role will put you at the heart of a major Trust-wide digital transformation programme. You will help shape how electronic prescribing and medicines administration is designed, implemented, embedded and optimised across inpatient, outpatient and day-case settings. We are looking for a credible, motivated and forward-thinking individual who can bring together clinical insight, medicines governance, digital knowledge and strong leadership skills to support safe, effective and user-centred digital medicines workflows.

Main duties of the job

• Lead and coordinate agreed workstreams for the implementation, upgrade and optimisation of NerveCentre EPMA.
• Provide specialist digital medicines, clinical informatics and medicines governance leadership.
• Support safe system configuration, testing, validation, clinical sign-off and optimisation.
• Translate clinical and operational requirements into effective digital workflows and standard operating processes.
• Support clinical safety assurance, risk identification, mitigation and escalation.
• Use audit findings, incident trends, user feedback and performance data to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Chair and contribute to multidisciplinary meetings, working groups and project discussions.
• Develop and deliver training, guidance and communication materials for clinical, pharmacy, technical and operational users.
• Work collaboratively with pharmacy, medical, nursing, AHP, IT, informatics, operational and supplier teams.
• Provide day-to-day leadership, supervision and line management to Digital Medicines Lead Technicians and/or members of the digital medicines implementation team.

About us
Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds and parts of the North East. At HDFT we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff and we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. If you're looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients' lives, HDFT could be the place for you!

We offer colleagues:

• A supportive culture so colleagues can bring their whole selves to work.
• Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise achievements with our Making a Difference & Team of the Month Awards, along with annual Colleague Recognition Awards.
• Employee Support and wellbeing - we offer a wide range of staff benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and a fast-track Physiotherapy service.

Details
Date posted: 17 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year pa pro rata
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 23 months
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
Reference number: 421-LTUCC-3923R
Job locations: Harrogate District Hospital, Harrogate District Hospital, Lancaster Park Road, Harrogate, HG2 7SX, Harrogate, HD2 7SX, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Qualifications, knowledge, skills and experience
Essential

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacist / Pharmacy Technician
• Postgraduate qualification in leadership, clinical pharmacy, digital health, clinical informatics, quality improvement or equivalent evidence of practical application of expertise at this level.
• Lean for Leaders, quality improvement certification, or commitment to undertake a relevant programme of study.
• Significant experience in hospital pharmacy or pharmacy services, with substantial involvement in digital medicines, ePMA, EPR or clinical informatics.
• Experience supporting, delivering or leading clinical informatics initiatives relating to medicines safety, digital workflows and clinical governance.
• Experience of clinical governance, risk management, medicines safety, incident investigation and development of risk mitigation plans.
• Experience of chairing or leading multidisciplinary meetings, working groups or project discussions, ensuring clear actions, accountability and delivery.
• Excellent understanding of electronic prescribing and medicines administration systems and their impact on clinical practice, medicines safety and patient care.
• Strong clinical informatics and medicines governance skills, with attention to detail and a clear focus on patient safety.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, including the ability to explain complex information clearly to a range of professional groups.

Desirable

• Formal training or certification in project or programme management, such as PRINCE2, Agile or equivalent.
• NHS leadership, digital leadership or clinical informatics qualification.
• Independent prescribing qualification, where professionally applicable.
• Experience working within a formal digital transformation programme or EPR/ePMA implementation project.
• Awareness of national digital medicines policy, guidance or best practice. Familiarity with benefits realisation approaches in digital transformation programmes.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.