Chief Pharmacy Information Officer (CPIO)

Chief Pharmacy Information Officer (CPIO)

The Chief Pharmacy Information Officer (CPIO) will act as the senior pharmacy professional and strategic lead for digital transformation of trust wide services and informatics involving medicines. This role ensures the Digital Pharmacy Strategy aligns with trust business plans and the overarching Digital and Data Strategy. The post holder will provide expert advice, leadership, and management to enable strategic transformation, ensuring medicines processes are supported by trust-wide digital systems. In addition to being the digital pharmacy lead for the trust, the post holder will also act as the lead for Education and Training aspects of the Trust Pharmacy service, ensuring a strategic approach is in place to ensure all pharmacy professionals involved in the service keep pace with profession level expectations.

• Lead the digital transformation of pharmacy services, ensuring the strategy aligns with Trust priorities.
• Act as the senior lead for digital transformation, overseeing Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) systems and medicines informatics.
• Provide expert advice to the Trust Board, Chief Pharmacist, and Senior Leadership Team on digital pharmacy services.
• Develop and implement a Pharmacy Digital Medicines Strategy, ensuring clinical leadership, risk management, and quality assurance.
• Work closely with the Chief Digital Information Officer (CDIO) and Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO) to ensure digital innovation in pharmacy services.
• Deputise for the chief pharmacist as and when required.
• Champion AI and machine learning technologies in pharmacy automation and digital medicine.

Digital Pharmacy Systems Management

• Oversee the planning, implementation, and optimisation of Trust-wide digital pharmacy systems, including EPR and EPMA.
• Ensure the integration of pharmacy systems with Trust-wide clinical and operational digital solutions.
• Lead procurement and benefits realisation for digital transformation projects within the pharmacy domain.
• Manage IT-related risks in pharmacy informatics, ensuring system security, compliance, and governance.
• Lead the data governance and integrity for pharmacy informatics, ensuring compliance with national informatics standards.
• Develop and deliver comprehensive training programmes for pre-registration and qualified pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and assistants, ensuring proficient use of the EPMA system.
• Ensure effective management of digital medicines systems, optimising EPMA configurations to enhance patient safety.
• Implement training programmes for healthcare professionals to enhance digital capabilities in medicines management.
• Ensure clinical safety accreditation and compliance with medicines-related informatics policies.
• Work with key stakeholders to develop and maintain business continuity plans for pharmacy informatics.

Clinical Informatics and Medicines Optimisation

• Lead clinical engagement to ensure effective digital transformation of medicines management.
• Drive cost-effective prescribing initiatives, optimising financial expenditure using digital data insights.
• Develop and implement a medication error reduction strategy using digital health technologies.
• Actively contribute to the digital maturity roadmap, aligning with Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) standards.

Governance and Compliance

• Ensure digital pharmacy initiatives comply with national policy, regulatory guidance, and local governance frameworks.
• Provide oversight on pharmacy-related informatics risks, working with medication safety officers and clinical governance teams.
• Lead research and development in digital medicines, e-prescribing, and clinical informatics.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Collaborate with internal and external partners to develop and deliver strategic pharmacy informatics initiatives.
• Represent the Trust at regional and national pharmacy informatics forums.
• Act as a mentor for pharmacy informatics professionals, providing leadership in digital transformation projects.

People and Performance Management

• Line manage the Pharmacy EPMA Team, overseeing recruitment, appraisals, and workforce planning.
• Develop a clear workforce strategy, ensuring upskilling in digital pharmacy services.
• Ensure staff have access to training and development opportunities to enhance digital capabilities.

About Us
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons. We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health. We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity. The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team. The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.