Advanced Medicines Advice Pharmacist

Are you a clinically skilled pharmacist with expertise in medicines information and advice? Are you looking for a role that will challenge you and enhance your skill set? Can you lead a team of senior pharmacists to achieve national objectives? If so, this role is for you!, + Leadership: Manage the day-to-day operations and delivery of the SPS MA clinical enquiry answering service (CEAS).
+ Team Management: Line manage staff involved in the CEAS at both NPH and GH.
+ Collaboration: Work closely with the Associate MA Professional Lead to ensure the safe, efficient, cost-effective, and patient-centred development and delivery of the SPS MA service.
+ Innovation: Be innovative and motivational in delivering the evolving SPS MA CEAS while collaborating with colleagues across multiple sites, including the local Medicines Information team at LNWH and GSTT.
Opportunities
+ Manage service development and improvement projects.
+ Contribute to national workstreams, research, and development.
+ Write web pages, contribute to podcasts, and develop MA training.
+ Enjoy flexibility with equal opportunities for home working where service delivery and staffing allow.
+ Be part of a diverse and inclusive workplace.

Working for our organisation
NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) supports the NHS in developing best practice systems related to buying, making, and using medicines.
Our Medicines Advice (MA) team focuses on supporting medicines optimisation and patient care through our clinical enquiry answering service (CEAS), written materials on our website, podcasts, and by supporting the NHS England Medicines Optimisation Delivery Group.
Join a passionate and supportive team dedicated to providing medicines advice to healthcare professionals across all NHS sectors. All roles in our team are developmental, and we are committed to providing equal access to opportunities. Recruitment decisions will consider both potential and demonstrated commitment to meeting role criteria., o Develop and implement qualitative and quantitative measures to determine performance against the organisational strategy.
o Directly manage, undertake individual appraisals, and agree on objectives.
o Work in a multi-disciplinary way across multiple organisational and professional boundaries.
o Be accountable for your actions and those of any staff you line manage.
o Act independently and consistently with the values of the NHS SPS.
o Deputise for the SPS MA Associate Professional Lead at key meetings and forums where a presence from the MA function is necessary.
See attached documents for full details of the job description and person specification.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
We promote the wellbeing and safety of all our patients and carers by acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately, according to the standards determined by our policy and procedures. All posts working with vulnerable groups will be subject to an enhanced criminal records check upon appointment and staff will need to give their consent for the Trust to receive regular updates on their criminal records status throughout their employment.
Due to the high volumes of applications we receive for certain posts, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications. After the closing date we strongly advise you check the email account which is registered. If you have not heard from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted.
Our employment checking processes require that all shortlisted applicants provide the contact details of their current HR Department. If shortlisted you will be sent an email reminder to present the contact details of your HR Department at the interview.
Please note the Trust uses identity checking software for verifying the authenticity of identity documents provided by candidates.
As part of our commitment to the Equality and Diversity at LNWUH, we are encouraging applications from BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) candidates as we seek to ensure our workforce structures are representative of the diversity of the communities we serve.

LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you., We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and supportive pharmacist (Band 8B) to lead the Specialist Pharmacy Services (SPS) Medicines Advice (MA) London service. This post is hosted by London North West Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) and based at Northwick Park Hospital (NPH) and Guy's Hospital (GH) with opportunity to work remotely.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
+ Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
+ St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
+ Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
+ Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
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