Job Details
* NHS AfC: Band 7
* Relevant professional registration: NMC, GPhC or HCPC
* Strong Foundation Course or similar leadership qualification
* Main area: Digital Medicines
* Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
* Contract: 2 years (Fixed Term post in line with Programme Plan)
* Hours: Full time | Flexible working | 37.5 hours per week
* Job ref: 287-DTC-23-26
* Department: LUH – 1 General Staffing (AFC posts)
* Site: Aintree University Hospital
* Town: Liverpool
* Salary: £47,810 – £54,710 per annum
* Salary period: Yearly
* Closing: 08/03/2026 23:59
Job Overview
We are looking for an experienced Pharmacy Technician to play a central role in delivering the Trust's Medicines Automation Programme at Aintree. This is a major safety‑critical transformation involving the rollout of automated drug cabinets, full medicines room refurbishment, and new digital workflows across all clinical areas. As a Digital Medicines Clinical Change Lead, you will turn clinical practice, digital capability and system design into safe, workable solutions. You will work side by side with the Pharmacy Programme Manager to ensure the programme delivers its key aims: safer medicines storage, reduced errors, improved efficiency, and full compliance with regulatory standards. Your work will directly improve patient safety, support clinical teams, and modernise how medicines are stored, accessed and managed across the hospital. You will also act as the day‑to‑day system manager for the medicines automation software, overseeing configuration, safe operation, updates and optimisation. This is an exciting opportunity to shape how medicines are managed at ward level, influence system design, and lead the clinical change required to bring automation and digital medicines processes into everyday practice.
Main Duties
* Lead clinical change and workflow redesign to ensure medicines automation and digital systems are safely adopted, embedded in practice and deliver measurable improvements in safety, efficiency and staff experience.
* Act as the expert system lead, configuring, managing and optimising the medicines automation software while working closely with the Programme Manager to support safe rollout, governance, and ongoing system performance.
Person Specification
Education and Training
* Educated to MSc level or holds an equivalent professional qualification / significant relevant experience
* Relevant professional registration: NMC, GPhC or HCPC
Desirable Education and Training
* Strong Foundation Course or similar leadership qualification
Experience
* Significant clinical experience in Acute NHS Environment
* Previous participation in a change programme
Desirable Experience
* Experience of using an EPR (Electronic Patient Record) and EPMA systems
* Medical device integration
* Using technology to improve processes
* Presenting to large and mixed audiences
* Preparing / delivering workshops
* Coaching, teaching, or training including development and delivery of materials
* Testing and evaluation of software systems
* Project management – delivery to deadlines, within scope and on budget
* Working with commercial suppliers
Knowledge
* In depth knowledge of patient flows and process and use of digital systems to manage medications safely
* Overview of clinical workflows
* Knowledge of NHS structure, organisations, and management
* Excellent attention to detail
* Numerate with excellent literacy skills and ability to produce formal reports
* Competent skills in core Microsoft office software – Outlook, Teams, Word, PowerPoint and Excel
* Analytical skills – analyse, interpret and evaluate complex, sensitive, or contentious information and understand its impact
Desirable Knowledge
* Excellent overview of digital solutions in the Trust
Skills
* Decision making skills with ability to work autonomously without direct supervision
* Ability to build and maintain effective working relationships including with executives where required
* Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
* Excellent interpersonal / team skills
* Ability to relate appropriately to various professional groups both within and outside the Trust
* Proven strong team skills
* Ability to negotiate and achieve consensus where there is a variety of views
* Ability to present confidently and competently to the multidisciplinary team and senior team members / executives
* Ability to support users / colleagues through cultural change
Personal Attributes
* Self‑reliant
* Highly motivated
* Calm temperament with leadership ability to motivate others, deal with conflict and negotiate, influence and overcome hostile resistance to change
* The ability to adapt to unpredictable working patterns
Equality, Diversity & Inclusion
The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under‑represented in our workforce: black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16‑24.
Visa & Immigration
Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right‑to‑work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.
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