Senior Medicines Advice Pharmacist, Nhs Sps

3 months ago

Liverpool, United Kingdom Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic pharmacist (Band 8a) to join the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) Medicines Advice (MA) team. This post is hosted by the Liverpool University Hospitals Foundation Trust and based at the Pharmacy Practice Unit (PPU) with opportunity to work remotely. Secondments will be considered.
Join us as a senior pharmacist to support and deliver the national SPS MA clinical enquiry answering service and develop SPS website content.
You will have a broad and varied role working in collaboration with colleagues across the MA
service and other functions of SPS.
- Use your expertise and knowledge of medicines to answer enquires received through the SPS clinical enquiry answering service from NHS primary care health professionals
- Advise on all aspects of medicines optimisation and provide a pragmatic perspective
- Use advanced clinical interpretation skills to provide accessible and evidence based information about medicines to help other healthcare professionals understand the implications for their patients
- Experience using and developing digital solutions produced by SPS such as the medicines compliance aid tool and the medicines monitoring tool
- Use your clinical pharmacy skills to inform development of national resources to support best practice
- Acquire and develop skills and experience writing content for the SPS website
- Build experience of agile working and project management as part of a national team, taking the lead on your individual projects.
- Participate in delivering novel ways of working including interactive web-based solutions to enquiries
- Benefit from the support of experienced SPS pharmacists in your development and training.

The SPS MA team are specialists in medicines advice, we pride ourselves on being accurate, consistent, relevant and able to deliver our advice effectively and with integrity. We're passionate in all aspects of our work, we want to change things for the better. Are you someone who shares our
values? The Liverpool site, in addition to contributing to the national clinical enquiry answering service, is the lead centre for the SPS Dental MA Service and the SPS Horizon Scanning service. Other work includes coordinating and participating in quality assurance for the NHS IV Guide and supporting a North West pilot of the pharmacogenomics PROGRESS study. The PPU also hosts SPS Quality Assurance, Procurement, and Medicines Use and Safety teams as well as Yellow Card Centre North West.
To learn more about what we do and what we can offer you and to answer any questions you might have, please get in touch and arrange an informal visit or phone call.

**For further details / informal visits contact**:
OR
We are a hosted service and may recruit a remote worker

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Leadership responsibilities
The post-holder will support delivery of a transformation plan for the NHS SPS MA service which includes Information & resources, and either the clinical enquiry or Regional Medicines Optimisation Committee Support Services for England. The post holder will work in collaboration with peers and under the direction of the relevant Associate Hub, and Hub Leads for these functions.

**The post-holder will**:

- Support the implementation of strategies and plans for the NHS SPS MA Service for England.
- Provide medicines advice in line with governance arrangements for the SPS MA Service for England that enable and assure delivery against the NHS SPS service specification as commissioned by NHSEI.
- Support the transformation of SPS MA Service for England.
- Maintain a specialist theoretical and practical knowledge of medicines optimisation as it applies across integrated care systems.
- Where appropriate and under the direction of the Hub Leads or Head of SPS, act as an expert resource nationally for the NHS SPS MA more generally for a range of internal
- Work as part of a high performing team to deliver the agreed strategy for the NHS SPS MA Service for England.
- Implement and monitor standards for the provision of the MA service in line with national guidelines/specifications to ensure an effective, timely and safe level of service that meet user’s needs.
- Undertake coaching, mentoring, and performance management of direct reports.
- Utilise your expertise to train others to deliver an expert, high quality, effective and stakeholder focused service to all areas of responsibility.
- Support the NHS SPS MA team to maintain motivation to consistently meet challenging service and transformation targets.
- Deputise for the Advanced MA Pharmacist as appropriate and when required.

Service improvement and management responsibilities
Across England the NHS SPS MA Service is provided through a workforce located across different geographical sites which are designated to host the NHS SPS. The post-holder will work collaboratively with other Pharmacy Professionals to achieve the objectives of the MA service.

The post-holder will sup

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