Lead Digital Pharmacist
Job Description
Job summary
37.5 hours per week.
This is an opportunity to take on a truly influential and rewarding leadership role within Livewell Southwest where your expertise will have a meaningful, organisation wide impact. As Lead Digital Pharmacist, you will shape the future of digital medicines systems, including the optimisation and use of Systm One, across a diverse and progressive health and care organisation, supporting services that span mental health, learning disability, neurorehabilitation and community care.
You will work in a collaborative, forward thinking environment that values innovation, clinical leadership and continuous improvement. We are committed to developing safe, effective and person centred digital solutions, and you will be at the heart of this transformation, influencing strategy, guiding decision making and driving improvements in medicines safety and clinical workflows.
LSW offers the autonomy and support to lead at a senior level while working alongside dedicated and experienced multidisciplinary teams. We are proud of our strong organisational values, inclusive culture and commitment to staff development, wellbeing and flexible working.
This role provides a unique platform to deliver lasting impact for both patients and services.
This role may not be eligible for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route.
Please note that advert may close earlier than the specified deadline.
All staff are expected to be able and willing to work across a 7 day service.
Main duties of the job
The Lead Digital Pharmacist provides senior strategic leadership for digital medicines optimisation across the organisation, with overall responsibility for Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration and wider digital systems including SystmOne. The role leads the development and delivery of digital medicines strategy, ensuring systems support safe, effective and legally compliant care while aligning with national policy and organisational priorities.
The post holder manages and develops a skilled multidisciplinary team, providing professional leadership, supervision and mentorship to pharmacy and digital specialists. They lead the design, implementation and governance of digital medicines systems, ensuring compliance with complex legal frameworks and promoting safe, standardised clinical workflows that reduce risk and variation.
Working at a senior level, the role influences organisational decision making, contributes to business planning and supports transformation programmes through expert advice, data analysis and performance insight. The Lead Digital Pharmacist also oversees medicines safety in digital systems, leading responses to incidents and driving continuous improvement.
The role builds strong relationships across clinical, operational and digital teams, as well as external partners, to support innovation, research and the adoption of best practice, ensuring high quality and person centred care is delivered through effective use of technology.
About us
Livewell Southwest is an independent, award-winning social enterprise delivering integrated health and social care services across Plymouth, South Hams, and West Devon, with specialist services in parts of Devon and Cornwall. Our teams work in community hospitals, GP practices, sports centres, and health hubs.
As an organisation with a strong social conscience we are guided by our values,kindness, respect, inclusivity, ambition, responsibility, and collaboration. We focus on transforming services to ensure sustainability, while empowering staff and those we serve.
We involve the people we care for, along with their families and carers, in shaping the care they receive, striving to deliver the right care at the right time and place. Centering our work on individual needs helps people lead healthy, independent lives.
We prioritise employees' development, offering protected CPD time, training pathways, leadership programs, and funding for qualifications like the Care Certificate and Nurse Training Scholarships. Our induction and preceptorship programs ensure a smooth transition into our organisation.
Livewell Southwest values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community, including those with armed forces experience, lived experience of mental health, neuro-diverse conditions and learning disabilities. If you need assistance or reasonable adjustments during the application process, contact the Recruiting Manager listed in the job advert.
Job responsibilities
JOB DESCRIPTION FRONT COVER SHEET
JOB DESCRIPTION : Lead Digital Pharmacist
DIRECTORATE: Medical
TEAM: Pharmacy
RESPONSIBLE TO : Medicines Safety Officer
LOCATION: Mount Gould Admin Building/Hybrid WFH
WORK PATTERN : Monday to Friday, Occasional on-call evening and weekends.
JOB DETAILS
J ob Title:
Lead Digital Pharmacist
Band:
8B
JOB PURPOSE
The Lead Digital Pharmacist is a senior strategic clinical leader responsible for organisation wide leadership, design, implementation and optimisation of digital medicines systems, with particular accountability for Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA).
The post holder provides expert professional, clinical and digital leadership across mental health, learning disability, neurorehabilitation and community services, ensuring that digital medicines systems enable safe, effective, legally compliant and person centred care. The role has a Organisation wide impact, shaping digital medicines strategy, influencing corporate decision making, and ensuring alignment with national policy, regulatory requirements and transformation priorities.
Operating at a highly autonomous level, the post holder acts as the principal specialist authority for digital medicines optimisation, providing expert advice to the Clinical Director of Pharmacy, senior clinicians, managers and executives on complex, high risk and strategic issues relating to digital prescribing, medicines safety and clinical workflow design.
3. SCOPE AND RANGE
The Lead Digital Pharmacist operates at a strategic and corporate level, providing leadership across the full lifecycle of digital medicines systems, from strategy development and system architecture through to implementation, assurance, optimisation and continuous improvement.
The post holder:
Acts as the organisations senior clinical subject matter expert for digital prescribing, EPMA, interoperability and medicines related digital infrastructure.
Leads complex, multi professional and multi directorate programmes of work that have a significant impact on clinical practice, patient safety, legal compliance and organisational risk.
Exercises professional leadership across pharmacy, nursing, medical, digital and informatics teams, influencing practice without direct managerial authority where appropriate.
Chairs or provides senior input into corporate governance and assurance structures, ensuring that digital medicines systems meet statutory, regulatory and clinical safety requirements.
The role requires advanced clinical judgement, strategic thinking and expert knowledge, particularly in relation to high risk medicines, complex prescribing regimens, mental health legislation, and digitally enabled clinical pathways.
MAIN DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES
Strategic and Professional Leadership
Provide visible, organisation wide leadership for digital medicines optimisation, shaping strategic direction and supporting delivery of corporate priorities.
Act as the corporate lead pharmacist for EPMA and digital medicines systems, representing pharmacy at senior internal and external forums.
Provide expert, high level professional advice to the Clinical Director of Pharmacy, Medicines Safety Officer and executive colleagues on digital medicines strategy, risk and assurance.
Influence and negotiate change at a senior level across professional and organisational boundaries to deliver transformational improvement.
Responsibility for Managing People and Professional Practice
Provide line management and professional leadership to senior specialist roles within the digital medicines workstream, including the Lead EPMA Nurse.
Offer expert clinical supervision, mentorship and leadership to pharmacists, technicians and other professionals working in digital and medicines safety roles.
Act as a senior role model, promoting advanced professional practice, innovation, and continuous improvement across pharmacy and multidisciplinary teams.
Contribute to workforce development, succession planning and capability building for digital medicines roles.
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