Assistant CCIO (Pharmacy & Medicines)
| Posting date: | 10 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £76,965.00 to £88,682.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £76965.00 - £88682.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 15 March 2026 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L7 8XP |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9287-26-0407 |
Summary
Serve as Pharmacy Clinical Safety Officer for digital systems, ensuring risks are identified, documented and managed. Develop and maintain policies, standards and SOPs governing digital medicines practices. Oversee clinical safety assurance, testing, and signoff for new functionality. Build strong relationships with clinicians, digital teams, operational leads and external partners. Represent Pharmacy across Trustwide digital governance, contributing to decisionmaking and influencing system design. Lead development of a digitally capable pharmacy workforce, ensuring training and support are in place for golives. Guide teams through service change, supporting staff, resolving challenges and encouraging engagement with new digital ways of working. Oversee incident management, business continuity and response to live digital system issues affecting medicines. Translate service needs into system requirements, business cases and project plans. Support optimisation of digital medicines systems across all LUHFT sites. Provide expert clinical pharmacy input and maintain some direct patientfacing practice. Use specialist medicines knowledge to support safe prescribing, verification and optimisation Lead audit, evaluation and research activity relating to digital medicines and EPR impact. Monitor national standards and digital developments, ensuring LUHFT aligns with best practice.