Job overview
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM STAFF CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY SWANSEA BAY HEALTH BOARD
Digital Services at Swansea Bay University Health Board are seeking to appoint an additional Senior E-Prescribing Facilitator to the Digital Transformation Department.
Digital Services are integral to the delivery of the Health Board’s digital strategy, and the directorate plays a key role in supporting thousands of staff to provide effective services. We help clinical staff manage and monitor patients throughout their care and support Health Board staff to review and redesign the range of services provided.
The ideal candidate will be passionate about technology and its use to improve the quality of care and patient safety. The post holder will utilise specialist pharmaceutical knowledge and IT skills to support the E-Prescribing team to ensure the continued successful implementation and ongoing support of the hospital electronic prescribing and medicines administration (HEPMA) system at Swansea Bay University Health Board.
Main duties of the job
This vacancy is open to applicants who have current, professional registration with the GPhC.
Are you passionate about the use of digital to support and enhance safe patient care?
The Digital Programmes department at Swansea Bay UHB are looking to appoint a pharmacy registered professional to join the hospital electronic prescribing and medicines administration (HEPMA) team. Electronic prescribing and medicines administration will have replaced almost all paper medication administration charts at Neath Port Talbot, Singleton, Morriston, Gorseinon, Glanrhyd and Cefn Coed Hospitals with the view to extend the implementation to further areas.
Upon completion of the implementation, the HEPMA team will support its ongoing use across the hospital sites, supporting safer digital medications practices and ensuring supporting the service delivery group to realise all expected benefits.
Digital Services are integral to providing patient information to clinicians wherever and whenever they require it. We support thousands of staff to provide effective services to citizens, and as a key enabler, we help clinical staff manage and monitor patients throughout their care. We also support staff to review, redesign and enhance a wide range of digital services and applications.
Working for our organisation
We believe staff are our best asset and we want you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.
As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.
You might be a nurse or doctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - we have a job for you.
There are also apprenticeships, work placements and volunteering roles available.
We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.
Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show that our commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.
If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery, with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Senior E-Prescribing Facilitator will use their specialist knowledge and experience alongside digital skills to ensure the continued successful implementation and maintained safe utilisation of the hospital electronic prescribing and medicines administration (HEPMA) solution at Swansea Bay University Health Board.
A key role requirement will be to participate in, plan and lead ongoing research that will complement benefits realisation. This will involve audits pre and postimplementation.
The Senior E-Prescribing Facilitator will have the freedom to initiate actions within broad policies, seeking advice as necessary.
The post holder will have responsibility for:
1. Facilitating the relevant HEPMA Working Groups to discuss and agree the transition from paper to digital medication charts/other processes
2. Designing/adapting information systems/integration to meet required specifications
3. System configuration
4. Business change activities
5. Specialist system training
6. Providing second/third line IT support to end users
7. Extraction and reporting of prescribing and medications administration data to report progress against the expected benefits of HEPMA
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
8. Postgraduate diploma level education or equivalent specialist knowledge in a relevant field
9. Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
10. Improving Quality Together(IQT) Bronze
Desirable criteria
11. Improving Quality Together(IQT) Silver
12. Working knowledge/experience of using electronic prescribing and/or medicine administration system
13. Previous experience implementing EPMA
Experience
Essential criteria
14. Working in an acute hospital
15. Working with electronic clinical information systems
16. Change management
17. Data manipulation using a range of data formats and tools e.g. basic pivot tables/Excel graphs
Desirable criteria
18. Carrying out audits
19. Delivering training and evaluating success
20. Writing standard operational procedures (SOPs) or policies and putting them in to practice
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
21. Intermediate knowledge of IT systems and software programs such as Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access
22. Administrative procedures, project management or information analysis
23. Assertive and persuasive
24. Ability to develop and maintain good working relationships
25. Ability to plan and organise
Desirable criteria
26. Ability to speak Welsh
27. Ability to negotiate and influence
Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
Equality remains at the centre of the Health Boards policy-making, service delivery and employment practices. We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race, religion, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable