Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will work with the system manager for the e-prescribing system and provide on-going support and advice to system users relating to its clinical, administrative and management functions as well as maintaining the protocol website ensuring all documents are up to date and that document control is in place.   

You will advise, based on pharmaceutical and technical knowledge, skills, and experience, on reconfiguration of the system and services in response to the requirements of end users at the current time.  

Through a variety of meetings and committees you will ensure that knowledge and expertise is shared throughout the local community, and that “wheels” are not constantly being re-invented, nor the system left vulnerable to future changes in staffing or services.

You will be responsible for updating and expanding on-line training resources so that they continue to meet the needs of the service and provide personal training when necessary.  

To develop and maintain a system on validation and accreditation of individuals using the system including allocating appropriate levels of passwords to all staff groups and individual users. 

In collaboration with the Lead Pharmacist for Cancer Care and the Lead SACT e-prescribing technician assist with the strategic development of the system designing, enhancing and testing appropriate fields and implement modifications and enhancements in collaboration with providers and users.  This will include system upgrades when required. 

A key role will be to identify, based on pharmaceutical and technical knowledge, skills and experience highly complex clinical trials which require regimen development.

To liaise with trial sponsors, clinicians and trial staff, as required, ensuring regimens follow standard practice/protocol. This will encompass the allocation of work to pharmacists and clinicians for verification. 

In addition you will work alongside clinical trial teams to identify, based on pharmaceutical and technical knowledge, skills and experience highly complex clinical trial protocol amendments which require regimen amendments. This will encompass the allocation of work to pharmacists and clinicians for verification. 

Manage entry and verification of all approved chemotherapy protocols onto the network wide electronic prescribing system. This will include current clinical trials where appropriate.  

Develop and maintain a failsafe system for chemotherapy prescribing to be employed in the event of a breakdown of the electronic prescribing system. 

Manage system failures liaising with the hub hosts and software providers as well as the local Trusts to rectify and implement solution in response to system downtime.

Ensure data integrity and systems are managed in accordance with Caldicott and data protection act guidelines.