Assistant CCIO; Pharmacy & Medicines | University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (LUHFT) is embarking on a once‑in‑a‑generation digital transformation that will fundamentally enhance how we deliver patient care. Our ambitious Electronic Patient Record (EPR) programme represents a major step forward in improving digital capability, enabling staff to work more efficiently and productively while delivering the highest standards of patient experience, safety and clinical effectiveness.

We are seeking a passionate, forward‑thinking, and digitally‑focused pharmacy leader to join us as Assistant Chief Clinical Information Officer (aCCIO) for Pharmacy and Medicines. This is an exceptional opportunity to play a key strategic role in shaping the future of digital medicines across a large, multi‑site acute Trust.

Working as part of a dynamic multidisciplinary digital pharmacy team, including pharmacists, technicians, digital specialists and wider clinical colleagues, you will champion innovation, lead clinical safety and governance in digital medicines, and ensure that our EPR delivers meaningful improvements for both staff and patients.

If you are committed to advancing the role of digital in transforming medicines management and supporting our mission to provide outstanding services, we would be delighted to hear from you.

• Lead digital medicines work streams within the Trust’s EPR programme, ensuring safe, effective and clinically sound system design.
• Provide expert clinical and strategic leadership on how medicines‑related processes are built, optimised and maintained within the EPR.
• Act as the key link between Pharmacy services, the EPR programme, and wider clinical teams.
• 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 sign‑off for new functionality.
• Build strong relationships with clinicians, digital teams, operational leads and external partners.
• Represent Pharmacy across Trust‑wide digital governance, contributing to decision‑making and influencing system design.
• Lead development of a digitally capable pharmacy workforce, ensuring training and support are in place for go‑lives.
• 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 patient‑facing 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.

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 Hospital is 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 Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is 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 their careers page.

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