Pharmacist Clinical Adviser

NICE - National Institute for Health and Care Excellence; Manchester; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization in the UK is seeking a Pharmacist Clinical Adviser to enhance clinical oversight and support NHS initiatives. The role involves leading projects, providing expert advice on medicines optimisation, and collaborating with various stakeholders to improve healthcare practices.

Qualifications

• Expertise in medicines optimisation and implementation issues.
• Experience in leading complex technical projects.

Responsibilities

• Providing advice on medicines optimisation across NICE.
• Leading projects and delivering guidance development.
• Collaborating with stakeholders to improve health practices.

Skills

Clinical Oversight

Medicines Optimisation

Project Management

Job description

Pharmacist Clinical Adviser Role at NICE

The pharmacist clinical adviser role is within the clinical directorate, which aims to strengthen clinical leadership across NICE and ensure comprehensive clinical oversight and support for all NICE activities. The directorate also enhances NICE's external credibility and stakeholder engagement.

The core task of the directorate is to develop and deliver an organisation-wide topic selection and prioritisation process that identifies initiatives with the greatest impact on people and the health and care system. It also ensures that NICE's clinical requirements are proactively anticipated and met in response to evolving needs.

We are a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team of health and care professionals and highly skilled technical staff.

Please note: There will be a pre-interview assessment for shortlisted candidates. Further details will be provided to those individuals.

The role supports the safe and effective use of medicines across the NHS and care system, aiming to improve care and ensure value for taxpayers. It involves leading programmes and projects, providing technical, clinical, and medicines advice, and sharing system intelligence to support evidence-based practice.

The pharmacist clinical adviser collaborates with the NICE Medicines and Prescribing Associate community of practice, influencing medicines optimisation and prescribing strategies within the NHS.

Role Responsibilities

• Providing specialised expertise, knowledge, and advice on medicines optimisation and implementation issues across NICE.
• Leading, contributing to, and delivering complex technical projects, including technology appraisal topics, guidance development and updates, and supporting the NICE Medicines and Prescribing Associate community of practice and patient safety initiatives.
• Collaborating with medicines optimisation colleagues to understand and improve practice within the health and care system and gathering medicines intelligence to support NICE.
• Supporting the implementation of NICE guidance on medicines optimisation by developing tools and resources for practitioners.

The medicines optimisation team, part of the clinical directorate, offers expert advice to ensure safe, effective, and innovative use of medicines, aiming for optimal patient and public outcomes and supporting the NHS workforce.

Our activities include contributing to guidance development, quality assurance, and creating implementation tools for prescribers, commissioners, and frontline professionals. We collaborate internally with various NICE teams and externally with stakeholders and practitioners involved in medicines optimisation.

We also gather medicines intelligence and provide operational and project management support for the team's products and services, adhering to NICE policies.

For further details or informal visits, contact: Louise Picton, Principal Pharmacist Clinical Adviser, at [e-mail].