Senior Pharmacist Medicines Information/Clinical Services

5 days ago


Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced pharmacist to join our Medicines Information team at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing high-quality clinical enquiry answering services to healthcare professionals and patients, as well as supporting the Clinical Pharmacy team in delivering direct patient care.

Main Responsibilities
  • Provide evaluated medicines information and advice to pharmacy, medical, and nursing staff, allied healthcare professionals, and members of the public.
  • Assist in the production of proactive medicines information aimed at improving prescribing and practice.
  • Support the training and development of junior medicines information staff and Lead Technician, Medicines Information.
  • Contribute to a peer review system and assist with the audit of enquiries in accordance with clinical governance requirements.
  • Maintain contact with specialists and groups nationally and locally to enable best practice to be identified and incorporated into NUH practice.
Core Clinical Duties
  • Ensure safe, rational, and effective prescribing by undertaking medication reconciliation, assessing suitability of prescribed medication, enabling use of patients' own medicines, and patient self-administration.
  • Provide medicines for individual patients during their stay in hospital, at discharge, and for out-patient visits.
  • Interpret and request clinical tests to monitor and make recommendations to improve effectiveness of drug therapy.
  • Pro-actively liaise with other members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure safe use of medicines.
  • Make recommendations about medicines to improve patient outcomes and to encourage adherence to hospital formulary and national guidelines.
Person Specification
  • Diploma/MSc in clinical pharmacy or other appropriate qualification.
  • Wide previous experience (post-registration) in hospital pharmacy.
  • Knowledge of medicines information resources and systems.
  • Good interpersonal, negotiating, and presentation skills, both written and verbal.
  • Good communication skills with multidisciplinary team members and own profession.
  • Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, drug therapy decisions, and patient information.
  • Able to analyse patient-specific data to advise on therapy management.
  • Organised, able to prioritise own work and assist others to prioritise.
  • Competent ICT skills, word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, databases, retrieval of information from the internet.


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