Medicines Advice Pharmacist

Job overview

Are you interested in joining an established medicines advice team?  Do you want a role that will challenge you and enhance your skill set?

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and supportive pharmacist to join the Medicines Advice (MA) function of the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS). The post is based at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) in Ipswich, Suffolk.

Join our team of pharmacists to support the day-to-day operation and delivery of MA services.  The SPS MA Service provides high quality clinical advice about medicines to a large number of healthcare professionals via the national clinical enquiry answering service, provision of SPS website evidence-based information, horizon scanning and other national medicines optimisation workstreams. The Trust’s MA service sits alongside the SPS MA service providing medicines advice to ESNEFT healthcare professionals as well as patients via the medicines advice helpline. This is a varied role, with opportunities to work in collaboration with colleagues across the MA service.

You will have excellent communication and organisational skills and be able to work effectively within a team. Some medicines advice experience would be an advantage, but further training will be available.

Details about our pharmacy service - https://esneft.pagetiger.com/buqzfou/1

Main duties of the job

In this post you will participate in the medicine advice service for East Suffolk & North Essex NHS Foundation Trust, the Specialist Pharmacy Service and for our SLA partners.

The main duties are:

• Provide medicines advice in line with governance arrangements for the Trust, and the SPS MA Service for England
• Participate in the Trust medicines advice service which includes the patient medicines helpline.
• Contribute to creation and provision of resources to support best practice and the safe use of medicines
• Contribute to the provision of medicines advice training to relevant staff.
• Provide a clinical ward pharmacy service to promote safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient use of medicines to patients
• Work as part of a high performing team to deliver the agreed strategy for the NHS SPS MA Service for England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.