Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 179-7711017-C
- Employer
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Bury St Edmunds
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/01/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - ePMA
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
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.
Working for our organisation
#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 everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job summary
- Act as a specialist pharmacist for the medicines management and pharmaceutical aspects of the Trust e-Care system
- Act as the Pharmacy department’s 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.
Person specification
Education & Qualification
Essential criteria
- M.Pharm/B Pharm/BSc Pharmacy.
- Registered with the GPhC.
- Post Graduate qualification in clinical Pharmacy or nearing completion, or demonstration of equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Membership of RPSGB.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates a professional attitude and understands professionalism.
- Good communication skills (both written and verbal).
- Ability to work calmly and in an organised fashion in a busy environment.
- Demonstrates ability to plan and prioritise own workload to meet deadlines.
- Approachable and supportive to peers and other staff.
- Good team member.
- Ability to work well on own initiative.
- Ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues and patients.
- Ability to work to deadlines and achieve agreed objectives.
- Positive attitude towards personal/self-development
- Flexibility to work in different areas
Experience and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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 criteria
- Experience of out of hours Pharmacy service
- Experience of therapeutic drug monitoring
- Experience of updating back office functions of electronic prescribing / record systems
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Expected to deal with members of the public and other health care workers in a professional manner
- Close liaison with co-workers in the department and throughout the trust is vital
- Expected to have a broad knowledge of pharmaceutical issues
- Evidence of self-motivated professional development
- Expected to participate in the out of hours and bank holiday rotas
- Expected to participate in the flexible hours, Saturday and bank holiday rotas
- Ability to travel
Desirable criteria
- Familiar with standard IT systems
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alex Heard
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist – Digital Systems
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01284 712673
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