Digital Medicines Clinical Change Lead - Pharmacy Technician
| Posting date: | 20 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 March 2026 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L9 7AL |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7793276/287-DTC-23-26 |
Summary
A Vacancy at Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
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.
• 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.
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.
Change Leadership and Clinical Transformation
• Lead clinical engagement across wards and departments to support large‑scale change in medicines processes.
• Re‑engineer clinical pathways and workflows to safely embed automation and digital medicine technologies.
• Work with nursing, pharmacy and medical colleagues to ensure changes are adopted, understood and sustained.
• Develop standard operating procedures and Trust‑wide policies for new medicines storage and automation processes.
System Configuration and Digital Delivery
• Act as a subject matter expert for configuration of digital medicines systems linked to automation, EPMA and future EPR needs.
• Ensure digital configuration decisions support safe clinical practice and meet national and local standards.
• Work with industry partners, the digital team and the Programme Manager to deliver a system that is intuitive, safe and efficient.
• Test system workflows, contribute to user acceptance testing and support go‑live planning across all rollout areas.
• Act as the day‑to‑day system manager for the medicines automation software, overseeing configuration, safe operation, updates and optimisation
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Mar 2026
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.
• 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.
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.
Change Leadership and Clinical Transformation
• Lead clinical engagement across wards and departments to support large‑scale change in medicines processes.
• Re‑engineer clinical pathways and workflows to safely embed automation and digital medicine technologies.
• Work with nursing, pharmacy and medical colleagues to ensure changes are adopted, understood and sustained.
• Develop standard operating procedures and Trust‑wide policies for new medicines storage and automation processes.
System Configuration and Digital Delivery
• Act as a subject matter expert for configuration of digital medicines systems linked to automation, EPMA and future EPR needs.
• Ensure digital configuration decisions support safe clinical practice and meet national and local standards.
• Work with industry partners, the digital team and the Programme Manager to deliver a system that is intuitive, safe and efficient.
• Test system workflows, contribute to user acceptance testing and support go‑live planning across all rollout areas.
• Act as the day‑to‑day system manager for the medicines automation software, overseeing configuration, safe operation, updates and optimisation
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Mar 2026