Digital Clinical Lead
As Digital Clinical Lead, you will have a key role in supporting the safe, effective, and strategic use of more than 30 pharmacy systems across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT). Operating at an advanced level of clinical practice, the role combines specialist pharmaceutical expertise with digital leadership to enhance high‑quality, patient‑centred care and support the Trust’s ambition.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be motivated, conscientious, passionate, respectful, and professional, with significant experience in digital health. They will provide expert clinical pharmacy leadership across the design, configuration, implementation, optimisation, and governance of a wide range of systems, including EPMA, Chemocare, aseptic services, and medicines management platforms. The post will also support the implementation of a new EPMA system, ensuring clinical requirements and workflows are translated into digital solutions aligned with national standards, local policies, and evidence‑based practice. The postholder will support the operational function of the team managing a small and dedicated team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians that oversee some of our key clinical systems.
Job responsibilities
The MMPS Digital Team is a small, dynamic, professional, and supportive team with a strong track record of delivering high‑quality outcomes in support of the Trust’s vision to provide exceptional specialist and integrated care. The role involves working closely with a wide range of multidisciplinary stakeholders, including clinicians, nursing teams, digital services, informatics specialists, governance leads, and external system suppliers. This role will be hosted at the St. James sites but will require cross‑site working.
What you will bring to the role
* Significant experience, knowledge, theory and practical delivery of major change and improvement programmes
* A comprehensive understanding of the interpretation and application of NHS Digital, Information and Technology Strategy, with a specific focus on medicines data standards and electronic prescribing and medicines administration systems
* Demonstrable political judgement and astuteness in understanding and working with complex policy and diverse interest groups, and common sense in knowing when to brief “up the line”
* Training and experience in clinical governance and risk management
* The ability to assimilate, analyse and disseminate highly complex, sensitive and/or contentious information
* Highly developed interpersonal skills with the ability to influence widely and negotiate effectively
* Ability to be intellectually flexible and to look beyond existing structures, ways of working, boundaries and organisations to produce more effective and innovative service delivery and partnerships
* A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals
* Demonstrate the ability to work under pressure whilst supporting and getting the most out of staff
* Ability to engage and fully involve senior staff in the redesign of patient pathways
Qualifications
* Professional Registration.
* First Degree or equivalent.
* Master’s degree in a relevant discipline or leadership degree plus significant in‑depth experience at a senior level and training equivalent to.
* Post‑graduate qualification within a leadership programme/study or evidence of practical application of expertise at this level.
* Registered with the GPHC.
* Lean for Leaders / Quality Improvement certification or commitment to undertake a relevant programme of study.
* Evidence of further training in Business, Programme and Project Management.
* NHS or Digital Leadership qualification.
* Non‑medical prescriber.
Experience
Experience as detailed in the accompanying job description.
Sponsorship Eligibility
To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.
About Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Our values are Patient‑centred, Collaborative, Fair, Accountable, Empowered. All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values. We’re committed to recruiting exceptional people to deliver outstanding services across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and helping every colleague reach their full potential. We warmly invite applications from people from a variety of backgrounds and sectors, and are especially keen to hear from individuals from a minority ethnic background. We’re dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and has a true sense of belonging, as we work together to deliver the best in healthcare to the people of Leeds and beyond.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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