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Digital Medicines - Clinical Change Lead | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 27 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £46,148 - £52,809 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 February 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L7 9NJ |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6865029/287-CEF-505-24 |
Summary
An exciting 12 month fixed term or secondment opportunity has arisen for a Digital Medicines – Clinical change lead to join our LUHFT Pharmacy EPMA/EPR team.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has embarked on a journey to provide great care for our patients. We are a front line digitisation trail blazer on the national EPR programme. Together we will underpin the care that our hospitals provide with a robust digital infrastructure, comprehensive suite of digital solutions and a wealth of digital intelligence. Our digital strategy clearly sets out our great ambition, which delivers a progressive and cohesive portfolio of digital solutions to front-line staff
Alongside the exciting EPR programme, the Pharmacy EPMA team are undertaking a wide-ranging activities to optimise digital medicines use. The Pharmacy team are driving the digitisation of digital medicines processes across all sites of University Hospitals of Liverpool Group. The improvements will involve:
• Upgrade and optimisation of Electronic Prescribing and Medication Administration
• Embedding clinical safety in all digital medicines work
• Standardisation of workflows across sites
• Use of automation to improve medicines processes and safety
• Digital Clinical Support
• Advanced reporting for clinical, quality improvement and research purposes
Reporting to the CCIO (Pharmacy & Medicines) the Digital Medicines – Clinical Change Lead will focus on the delivery of improvement and optimisation projects alongside being a key member of the EPR Programme Team. The post holder will be expected to travel to sites across UHLG working collaboratively with clinical, operational and digital teams.
The post holder will be a highly experienced clinical professional (e.g. Pharmacist, Pharmacy Technician, Nurse or AHP) who will play a key role in configuration of systems, stakeholder engagement, communications, and training to ensure that systems are adopted successfully, implemented in a timely manner and that key benefits are achieved. The emphasis is on delivering safer healthcare, increasing efficiency, improving patient outcomes, and improving staff experience.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women’s Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit theircareers page.
Subject matter expertise, system design and configuration
• Lead clinical, digital and industry stakeholders to design and configure the digital systems to support safe, effective patient care. The role will require significant capability and experience of autonomous decision-making following engagement with a broad range of stakeholders to
design the system to best realise benefits for patients and staff
• Guide digital system design and configuration to provide the organisation with an exceptional system experience
• Develop and maintain expert knowledge of the system
• Manage delivery of the work stream plans ensuring projects are delivered to time and report weekly progress to the program manager, Senior Responsible Officer, and the Programme Board
• Ensure that the design and configuration of digital systems is compliant with appropriate Trust/ National policy, guidelines, and regulations
Clinical transformation
• Use real world clinical experience to re-engineer several key clinical pathways and
processes to underpin the effective configuration of systems. The role will require a significant amount of expertise in clinical practice as well as understanding of relevant Trust, regional and national policies/ guidelines
• To create and implement Digital Medicines/ Trust wide clinical and digital standard operating procedures and policies
• Engage widely with stakeholders across the Trust who will be impacted by the digital system and/or clinical process redesign
• Promote and engender change and clinical transformation
• Liaise with business change colleagues and service change leads to ensure that activities are successfully planned and delivered
• Establish professional networks internal and external to the organisation including links with relevant executives
Reporting
• Participate in project boards/ team meetings and keep up to date with minutes and highlight reports
• Present progress, key milestones, risks and plans to the project board, the senior responsible officer and key executives as required
• Identify, log, manage and, where required, escalate risks and issues related to the Senior Responsible Officer
Audit
• Ensure that systems are configured to support extensive clinical, operation and research data
analysis including where data are required for national audit programmes (E.g., medicines data submissions)
• Lead benefits realisation analysis
• Audit performance of systems before and after implementation
• Record compliance with clinical and operational guidelines before and after implementation
Training
• Develop IT end user acceptance testing
• Support the training of clinical and administrative staff required to use the product
This advert closes on Monday 17 Feb 2025