Chief Pharmacy Information Officer

The postholder works in partnership with relevant teams and bodies including Digital Medicines Transformation Portfolio Leads, Programme Directors and Programme Managers, Chief Pharmaceutical Officer Welsh Government, Health Board Directors of Pharmacy, Community Pharmacy Wales, Welsh Pharmaceutical Committee, Royal Pharmaceutical Society (Wales), Hospital Pharmacists, Primary Care Teams, and other relevant organisations. They provide subject‑matter expertise in pharmaceutical matters in the specialist field of digital technology.

This includes areas of medicines management, medication records, coding, nomenclature, dispensing, prescribing and evidence‑based best practice. They contribute to the development of digital quality assurance and technical design documentation, including design briefs and specifications, ensuring they can be understood by all stakeholders, translating clinical requirements into technical design.

They have extensive knowledge of medicines information within the NHS Wales national architecture, and they lead on the development of pharmacy and medicines design content within NHS Wales and link with other bordering systems within the UK. Analysing evidence‑based clinical information and requirements from multiple sources, they interpret these into business needs for individual organisations and for all of Wales. A full Job description and Person Specification is attached within the supporting documents, or please click Apply now to view in Trac.