Main area Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Electronic prescribing/Spinal Cord Injuries and Neurorehabilitation Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri Weekends, evenings and bank holidays on a shared rota with all other pharmacists) Job ref 190-0704-DIR
Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Northern General Hospital Town Sheffield Salary £55,690 - £62,682 pa/pro rata for part time staff Salary period Yearly Closing 25/08/2025 23:59 Interview date 03/09/2025
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist (ePMA/Spinal Cord Injuries)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated pharmacist to play a key part in the development of our new, fully integrated Connect Electronic Patient Record (EPR), enabling us to hold a single Trust-wide hospital record. The post-holder would also help us deliver advanced level pharmacy care to our Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI) and Neurorehabilitation Centre.
ePMA:
The post holder will join the established multidisciplinary team responsible for the maintenance and development of the electronic prescribing and medicines administration (ePMA) functionality within the Connect EPR.
If you are passionate about digitising the NHS, have the required skills and experience, then you are ideally suited to apply for this exciting post.
Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI) and Neurorehabilitation:
The Princess Royal SCI Centre is the second largest tertiary referral centre in the UK, and the regional centre of excellence. The Centre provides a lifelong service to its patients.
This well-established post involves working alongside and supporting our team of clinical pharmacists and medicines management technicians to provide a clinical service and to contribute to the multidisciplinary team.
As well as significant post-registration experience, you’ll also need a postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy alongside excellent clinical leadership, interpersonal and communications skills. Ideally, you’ll also have Independent Prescriber status or be willing to undertake the course.
Main duties of the job
ePMA - To lead and be responsible for the planning, organisation, implementation and ongoing development of the EPMA system as a key component of the overall Electronic Patient Record (EPR) in line with legislation, national priorities and Trust objectives.
This role offers the opportunity to collaborate with clinicians, pharmacy staff and the wider digital team to implement system improvements and provide expert support to the trust.Your activities will include configuration, testing and development of the ePMA functionality.
Spinal Cord Injuries - To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate clinical pharmacy services in accordance with the objectives set by the Principal Pharmacist and the Spinal Cord Injuries and Neurorehabilitation service.
Contribute to the multidisciplinary team within ePMA and the Spinal Cord Injuries centre as a clinical practitioner, championing medicines optimisation.
To deliver relevant education, training, mentorship and clinical supervision.To supervise staff associated with EPMA in line with STH policy; including taking responsibility for the personal /professional development and day to day management of these staff.
To contribute to the pharmacy departmental services including evenings and weekends.
Support pharmacy service areas in the department, this may include dispensaries, technical and medicines information.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes a firm commitment to professional development of it’s staff together with the provision of an excellent health and well-being support service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
* Higher degree/ Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent postgraduate diploma in specialist area
* Registered Independent prescriber
* Post-graduate Masters in Clinical Pharmacy (or equivalent).
* Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Skills and Knowledge
* Ability to sustain prolonged concentration despite unpredictable workload.
* Manages difficult and ambiguous problems
* To adopt a flexible working attitude to meet the needs of the patient and the pharmacy department, identifying a vision for the delivery of pharmaceutical care.
* Ability to develop good working relationships across traditional boundaries, e.g., primary/secondary/tertiary care.
Experience
* Extensive post-registration and post-diploma clinical experience. Surgery experience beneficial.
* Experience of working in a team and working unsupervised.
* Experience of teaching, training and mentoring.
* Research, audit, and publication experience
* Appropriate Short Management Course e.g., appraisal training, leadership skills.
* Project management and work
* Electronic Medicines Management Systems
* Formulary management
Please note that in order to comply with the UK Government’s rules on Skilled Worker sponsorship, any applicants who do not meet the eligibility requirements or concessions on salary thresholds under the Skilled Worker visa will not be eligible to receive sponsorship from the Trust. Please keep this in mind when submitting your application. Further details on these concessions, and who qualifies for them, can be found here .
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