Home, community, hospital
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.
We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.
Our Trust values
These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.
- Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
- Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
- Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
- Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.
Job overview
Pharmacy and digital might not be two things you immediately put together, but this role brings both together.
We’re looking for an experienced Senior Pharmacy Technician with a passion for digital healthcare to join us as Chief Technician, ePMA.
As part of our Pharmacy Digital and Informatics Team, you’ll help maintain, develop and optimise our ePMA system, working across the Trust to improve prescribing and patient safety.
You’ll support and train colleagues, contribute to multidisciplinary discussions and digital projects, and help solve problems as they arise. We’re looking for someone who communicates clearly, can make training engaging and enjoys finding better ways of doing things.
With healthcare becoming increasingly digital, this is an opportunity to build specialist ePMA skills while using your pharmacy knowledge to improve how medicines are prescribed and administered.
You’ll also retain your operational pharmacy experience in the dispensary, although the majority of the role will focus on digital medicines systems and supporting the people who use them.
Applications are invited from qualified Pharmacy Technicians with proven experience in health informatics to undertake this post on a developmental basis, offering progression from Band 6 to Band 7 upon achievement of agreed competencies.
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- To help maintain and optimise our Trust Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) systems as an integral member of the Pharmacy Digital Team.
- Provide expert training and support to multidisciplinary staff using the Trust Oracle Cerner Millenium EPMA system.
- Working with multidisciplinary teams to design and implement system changes to promote safe prescribing in line with Trust clinical guidelines.
- Work in collaboration with the wider Trust Digital Teams on projects, system upgrades and configuration and regression testing.
- Design, build and implement prescribing protocols, order sets and clinical decision support tools in line with Trust guidelines.
- Contribute to medication safety initiatives through system design, audit and continuous quality improvement.
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Working for our organisation
We work closely with colleagues across the wider multidisciplinary team, so you won’t be tucked away behind a computer working on ePMA in isolation. You’ll get to know people across different professions and specialties and become someone colleagues turn to when they need help navigating our digital systems.
And, because this is a role that sits between pharmacy, people and digital, there’s a real opportunity to learn. You’ll be surrounded by experienced pharmacy colleagues while also building relationships with teams across the Trust, giving you exposure to areas you might not ordinarily encounter in a traditional pharmacy technician role.
We want you to feel comfortable asking questions, sharing ideas and challenging the way we do things. If you spot something that could work better, we want to hear about it.
Kingston & Richmond NHS Foundation Trust Pharmacy Department provides a high quality, professional pharmacy service and has a strong track record in delivery quality and innovative services. Both the Pharmacy Department and the Trust have a long-standing reputation for being a friendly, rewarding and compassionate place to work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document/s (JD) which contains more information about the role in the job description and person specification.
Ensure any supporting statements align with the job description and person specification, as your application will be assessed against these criteria.
Previous applicants need not apply.
We support the NHS Flex for the Future pledge
We welcome conversations about flexible working from day one, including options such as adjusted hours, compressed hours and other arrangements. If flexibility matters to you, please talk to us - we’ll be happy to explore what’s possible for the role and the service.
Your recruitment team
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Your application
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References
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Closing date
To help us manage recruitment efficiently, some vacancies may close early once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting
If you are successfully shortlisted, you will be contacted by email or SMS from the South West London Recruitment Hub. Please check your registered TRAC email regularly.
Application feedback
If you do not hear from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume your application has not been successful on this occasion.
Safeguarding and DBS Checks
We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults. For roles with direct access to these groups, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required. All staff are expected to understand and uphold their safeguarding responsibilities as part of their role.