Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term: 12 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-WCCS-2471
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Charing Cross Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Electronic Prescribing & Medicines Administration (ePMA) Pharmacist
Band 7
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
The trust currently uses Cerner ePMA which is shared with another 3 acute Trusts as part of the North West London Acute Provider Group. When referring to ePMA in this job description it is specific to the Cerner ePMA system.
In partnership with NHS England and Oracle Health, the Trust is developing the ability to send prescriptions directly from Cerner to community pharmacies, by onboarding to the EPS (Electronic Prescriptions Service). This role will support the pilot, and post pilot rollout of EPS across North West London in addition to other responsibilities as specified below.
Main duties of the job
• To assist with the implementation, maintenance, development of electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) across Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.
• To support back-end technical processes such as configuration, development and testing of the Trust’s current or future ePMA systems.
• To train and support all staff involved with the ePMA process. This includes pharmacy staff, prescribers, nurses and floorwalkers.
• Working with the Senior Pharmacist on arising issues to ensure that ePMA system is fit for purpose and suitable for use across the Trust.
• To convey and promote benefits of ePMA and ensure any implementation is carried out in an effective and safe manner.
• The post holder will exercise professional accountability and responsibility using professional skills, knowledge and expertise in changing inpatient environments, across professional boundaries and in unfamiliar situations.
• To provide ePMA support services according to rota if necessary (including early, late, weekend working and on-call commitments)
• To provide clinical pharmacy services, department and ward based, in line with Trust procedures and national legislation
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
- Member of the GPhC
- Post graduate certificate in Clinical Pharmacy Practice (minimum requirement) or currently undertaking the post graduate diploma in general pharmacy practice and have satisfactorily passed the 18 month stage assessment or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Diploma in pharmacy practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- This must include a solid grounding in all aspects of hospital pharmacy practice (medicines information, aseptic services, ward services and dispensing)
- Experience in delivering training and education
- Experience in use and knowledge of electronic prescribing systems
- Demonstrate the ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options for patients
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of managing specialist services
- Clinical guidelines development
- Planning and developing services
- Experience of developing or rolling out an ePMA system in secondary care
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to influence senior pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management
- Demonstrate the ability to reconcile national priorities with local realities in the relevant specialist area
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement and is able to manage difficult and ambiguous problems in the relevant specialist area
- Good clinical practice knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Communicates best practice outside the organisation
- Demonstrate good leadership skills
- Demonstrated ability to identify training needs of others
- Demonstrated ability to bring about change
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Naomi Iles
- Job title
- Senior Lead EPMA Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02033130583
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