Pharmacy - Informatics Officer
Job summary
The Pharmacy Informatics Officer will be a Pharmacy Technician assisting with data reporting and associated tasks, and aiding with the operation, maintenance, and administration of the multiple pharmacy computer systems, software and hardware used across all sites. Additionally, the post holder will maintain their Pharmacy Technician competencies by contributing to the 7-day rota within the dispensary at Denmark Hill and providing additional support where appropriate during busy periods. Based primarily at Denmark Hill with regular cross-site work required at other Kings sites, duties may include, but are not limited to the below.
Main duties of the job
Perform regular and ad-hoc reporting, ensuring that data quality remains high at all times, and communicating any data quality issues to senior staff.
Support the design, development and implementation of data validation and quality assurance systems and methodologies, ensuring the integrity of data systems and reporting produced by the service.
Work collaboratively with pharmacy teams to help develop and refine performance scorecards and dashboards.
Manage and maintain registers of assets and asset locations.
About us
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of £1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King's to another level.
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King's is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone's contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust's carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Digital Systems
All pharmacy staff including: Chief Pharmacist, Deputy Chief Pharmacists and Associate ChiefPharmacists All Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians Medicines Management Pharmacy Assistants, Assistant TechnicalOfficers and A&C staff Care Group Management Team Medical staff (Trust wide) Nursing staff (Trust wide) Other health care professionals and Trust staff Pharmacy and medical staff from other hospitals NHSE and ICS staff Medical Research and Development staff Pharmaceutical industry personnel Academic bodies e.g. School of Pharmacy System Teams e.g. EPIC, Omnicell, PowerGate Deputy Chief Pharmacist, OperationsPrincipal Pharmacist for Data Performance & TechnologyPharmacy Systems & Technology Lead
Pharmacy Informatics Officer To support relevant pharmacy digital systems and hardware on all Kings sites (Denmark Hill,PRUH, Orpington Hospital, Beckenham Beacon). Regular visits to all sites will be required. To work collaboratively with pharmacy stakeholders to support the planning and introduction of newpharmacy digital technology systems and ensuring all necessary steps are taken to maintain theintegrity of these systems. To work collaboratively with pharmacy stakeholders to support robust business continuity andcontingency planning for the department concerning pharmacy systems and support any remedialactions needed to resolve unexpected emergencies in the event of system outages/failures. To establish effective working relationships with the Trust IT team including helpdesk, applicationsupport, project and data quality teams. To be responsible for the pharmacy IT hardware asset registers.
Data To support drug mapping across pharmacy systems to enable the generation of usable reports anddata for national benchmarking as needed e.g. Rx-info, Define/Refine, Extend, and IQVIA. To produce routine and ad-hoc reports from multiple data sources. To utilise data to support the development of departmental BIU performance scorecard anddashboards. To work collaboratively with Pharmacy staff to process and resolve queries and issues loggedregarding data quality. To support quality improvements and research across the department. To support the production of data quality reports providing assurance to Pharmacy ManagementGroup and Chief Pharmacist as needed.
Omnicell To support development and utilisation of the Pharmacy Data Analytics Centre. To produce stock optimisation reports when required, to enable pharmacy stores to optimise stockin all Omnicell locations. To support account management for the Data Analytics Centre and Omnicell system. To utilise MedX to support investigation of incidents and drug shortages. To assist in the provision of Omnicell data relating to Departmental and Trust KPIs and otherperformance related metrics.
Person Specification
Education
- Registered Pharmacy Technician with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice.
Knowledge and Experience
- Demonstrable experience of working with Informatics or Pharmacy computer systems.
- Knowledge of regulations and legislation relevant to Pharmacy services.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer details
Employer name
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Kings College Hospital
Denmark Hill
London
SE5 9RS
https://www.kch.nhs.uk/
- Company
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- London, United Kingdom SE5 9RS
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £34089.00 - £41498.00 a year
- Posted
- Company
- King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- London, United Kingdom SE5 9RS
- Employment Type
- Permanent
- Salary
- £34089.00 - £41498.00 a year
- Posted