EPMA Digital Medicines Pharmacy Technician

Job summary

We are looking for a experienced pharmacy technician with an interest in digital systems maintenance and development to join our team. We are keen for applicants to have a grounded knowledge in acute care provision with a solid knowledge of medicines optimisation processes.

As part of the EPMA team under the Clinical Systems Group this role is involved in the "business as usual" optimisation of the EPRO/OpenEP electronic medicines administration system. You will be supported to develop into the role through training provisions and guidance from an experienced EPMA team. Using your knowledge and experience of interoperability as well as process change management we want you to be involved in meeting the Trust requirements following a successful implementation of EPMA throughout Wye Valley Trust.

Key to the role is engagement with stakeholders across the secondary care, primary care and our suppliers to ensure acceptance of system development. As the EPMA digital medicines pharmacy technician you will be involved in further development and integration with internal systems as well as meeting nationally set standards for Transfer Of Care and discharge management.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be the Digital Medicines Pharmacy Technician for the Trust.

The purpose of this job is:

• Assisting in the operational maintenance, management running and development of the Trust EPMA systems, including business continuity processes in the event of systems failure.
• Assisting in management & co-ordination of regular system housekeeping tasks, system integrity checks and other software tasks as appropriate
• Assisting in the implementation of software upgrade and development of the Trust EPMA systems, including training and updating of SOPs.
• To work with the EPMA system manager to ensure that software and hardware is compliant with all relevant legislation, the Trust Medicines Code and Trust standards of corporate governance.
• Ensuring that all relevant Trust staff are trained in the effective use of Trust EPMA system.
• In the absence of the EPMA system manager, providing operational management of the Trust EPMA system, and Trust representation at EPMA system user groups, conferences or seminars.
• Supporting the EPMA system manager in the future implementation of new developments within or related to the Trust EPMA system.
• To ensure that relevant Trust organisational procedures are adhered to, objectives are identified and met, and that the identification and realisation of benefits are facilitated.

Working as part of an on call rota to provide 24/7 support to the Trust and guide the Trust in times of system outage.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.