Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - ePMA

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a full-time specialist ePMA pharmacist to join our pharmacy team. The role focuses on delivering high‑quality pharmaceutical care using the electronic prescribing and records system within a hospital setting and contributing to digital improvements in patient safety.

You will work with the ePMA Meds Team to maintain and enhance the trust's electronic prescribing system while delivering direct clinical care across medical, surgical and admissions

Qualifications

• Clinical Pharmacist with experience in hospital setting.
• Experience with electronic prescribing and record systems (ePMA).
• Interest in digital health and medication safety improvements.

Responsibilities

• Deliver direct, patient‑facing care ensuring safe and appropriate use of medicines across the Trust.
• Work with the ePMA Meds Team to maintain and improve the electronic prescribing system.
• Rotate through clinical areas including medical, surgical, admissions wards and dispensary; participate in extended hours and on‑call coverage.

Tools

ePMA system

Job description

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.

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.

#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 everyone's voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.

Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rasha Razooqi Job title: Lead Specialist ePMA Pharmacist Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01284 714425