Manages and maintains pharmacy IT systems ensuring compliance with national standard and statutes Supports the pharmacy directorate in setting the strategic objectives for the IT systems Supports the pharmacy directorate to ensure pharmacy IT systems support wider departmental and organisational objectives Provides advice to the pharmacy directorate relating to resource requirements needed to support pharmacy IT systems and any ongoing developments Contributes to the annual business plan of the pharmacy directorate Is responsible for information management and information analysis including the design, development and production of scheduled and ad-hoc reports for data from pharmacy IT systems Provides project management for IT system implementation and assists with general project management within the pharmacy directorate Advises the pharmacy directorate on research issues relating to pharmacy IT systems Develops and maintains policies and procedures and appropriate records relating to pharmacy IT systems Maintain technical competence and suitable accreditation in the areas of: hardware, software, network infrastructure, database development, disaster recovery and contingency, service continuity, security and automation Supports the pharmacy directorate to develop and implement suitable training for staff around the use of pharmacy IT systems Supports training of staff internal and external to the pharmacy department Undertakes audits to review the performance of the pharmacy IT systems