Pharmacist Information Officer: Sponsorship Available

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Pharmacist to join within the Pharmacy IT Team to deliver the benefits of the Epic system and other pharmacy-related IT projects.

You will have proven experience in a hospital pharmacy setting with some experience in managing pharmacy-related IT systems and a proven track-record in project management. You will also have excellent communication skills, a commitment to patient care and performance delivery along with a strong track record of successful delivery of projects and service development experience.

The role involves leading the clinical aspects of pharmacy-related IT projects including the ongoing development of the Epic system in terms of the safe prescribing and administration of medicines. The role will also lead on other pharmacy IT projects including IT systems related to workflow and reporting relating to medicine spend including high cost drugs.

Main duties of the job

  • Assist the Senior Pharmacist Information Officer to design future clinical and research processes and workflows. Supporting with the medicines management aspects of GOSH’s clinical systems strategy
  • Assist with the ongoing development of the EPR programme and associated ICT systems and clinical transformation projects related to medicines management
  • To be an expert in the capabilities of EPR and technology to improve patient safety and medicines optimisation and to provide direction to maximise its capabilities.
  • To work as a clinical pharmacist, delivering a ward-based pharmacy service including medicines reconciliation, drug supply, review of highly complex medication regimens, drug interaction and adverse reaction monitoring
  • Active participation on consultant ward rounds and multi-disciplinary meetings
  • Ensures that the environment, technology and infrastructure are emphasised in the prevention of medication errors and adverse events
  • Promotes the use of health IT to improve patient safety by designing, developing, implementing and educating on decision support tools
  • Assists with the implementation of the pharmacy IT strategy
  • Combines knowledge of patient care, medicines management, informatics concepts, and change management to effectively address the information and knowledge needs of healthcare professionals and patients to promote safe, effective, and efficient use of EPR in clinical settings
  • To act as a source of information for pharmacy IT and EPIC

Person Specification

GOSH Culture and Values

Essential

  • Our Always values

Academic/Professional qualification/Training

Essential

  • M.Pharm or equivalent or BPharm/BSc Hons for those qualified before 2002
  • Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable

  • Post graduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy or Digital Health

Experience/Knowledge

Essential

  • Practising pharmacist working in a hospital environment
  • Good clinical knowledge and pharmaceutical care skills
  • Knowledge of pharmacy, medicines management and medicines optimisation and operational workflows and processes within a hospital environment including dispensary, procurement, homecare, technical services and ward areas
  • Experience using the EPR system Epic as an end user
  • Experience of delivering training and supervising others

Desirable

  • Experience of providing support and technical expertise on hospital EPMA systems

Skills Abilities

Essential

  • Good written and verbal communication skills with the ability to communicate with staff at all levels in the organisation
  • Good problem solving and investigational skills.
  • Good diagnostic and analytical skills.
  • Ability to identify a problem, formulate a solution and have the ability to work across teams to implement
  • Able to analyse and interpret complex information relating to pharmacy IT systems and present to others in a clear and concise manner
  • Able to cope with unpredictable and intense situations
  • Effective prioritisation skills
  • Effective pharmaceutical care skills
  • Understanding of NHS / IT priorities
  • Able to explain technical solutions to a non-technical audience

Desirable

  • Completed Epic Willow training.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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 (Opens in a new tab).

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 (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 7 September 2026

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