Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - ePMA

Job summary
The Trust has an exciting opportunity for a full-time specialist ePMA pharmacist to join our pharmacy team.

Are you an established Pharmacist who wants to deliver high quality pharmaceutical care using an electronic prescribing and record system in a hospital team?

Are you interested in delivering quality improvement through digital technologies?

If so, come and join us at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.

This exciting role will provide you with a range of experiences in ePMA system development, providing clinical decision support and medication safety features across various functionalities within the system.

You will also be part of the clinical services team, providing clinical care to a variety of medical, surgical and admissions wards.

Main duties of the job
A flavour of your day to day

Your week will consist of a mixture of clinical and digital activities. Within your digital role, you will work with the ePMA Meds Team and wider digital team to provide maintenance and improvements to the trusts electronic prescribing system.

Working clinically, you will deliver direct, patient-facing care ensuring the safe and appropriate use of medicines across the Trust.

Through the structured rotation plan you will be exposed to, and work within, a number of clinical areas, including:

• Medical wards
• Surgical wards
• Admissions wards
• Inpatient and outpatient dispensary

The department works on an extended hours, seven day pharmacy service on a rostered basis, as well as providing an on-call service out of hours, which you will be involved in.

About us
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community

We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.

We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyone's voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

Key responsibilities

• Act as a specialist pharmacist for the medicines management and pharmaceutical aspects of the Trust e-Care system
• Act as the Pharmacy departments link with the Trust/Cerner e-Care team
• In conjunction with the Lead Specialist EPMA Pharmacist and Chief Pharmacy Information Officer (CPIO) ensure that the available Pharmacy resources are suitably trained with respect to the e-Care system and developed to ensure the effective provision of a comprehensive pharmacy service.
• In conjunction with the Lead Specialist EPMA Pharmacist & CPIO ensure that the e-Care drug dictionary is maintained and updated.
• In conjunction with the Lead Specialist EPMA Pharmacist & CPIO ensure that all e-Care content and functionality is up to date and fit for purpose.
• In conjunction with the Trust Medication Safety Officer review any e-Care related medication incidents to ensure that system related risks are highlighted and minimised.
• Provide a clinical pharmacy service to allocated wards and the dispensary as rostered.
• To give professional advice on pharmaceutical matters to medical, nursing and other professional staff.
• To participate in flexible working hours in accordance with Trust policy.
• Providing on-call/out of hours support to the Trust on a rostered basis.

Essential qualifications and experience

• M.Pharm/B Pharm/BSc Pharmacy.
• Registered with the GPhC.
• Post Graduate qualification in clinical Pharmacy or nearing completion, or demonstration of equivalent experience
• Knowledge of hospital pharmacy
• Knowledge of electronic prescribing and administration systems
• Recent experience of working in hospital Pharmacy
• Clinical pharmacy ward experience
• Experience of patient counselling
• Experience of using high level IT functionality

Desirable

• Membership of RPSGB.
• Experience of out of hours Pharmacy service
• Experience of therapeutic drug monitoring
• Experience of updating back office functions of electronic prescribing / record systems
• Familiar with standard IT systems

Location: Bury St Edmunds
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum, pro rata (Agenda for Change, Band 7)

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check. Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship are welcome. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. Apply through our website.