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Salary for this role£49,387 – £56,515 a year

Health and Care route minimum£25,000 a year

Pay basisNational pay scales (NHS bands)

This occupation falls under the Health and Care Worker route. Salaries set by national pay scales (NHS bands) at or above the relevant band rate typically meet the occupation's requirement.

Closest occupation match: SOC 2251, Pharmacists. Pay for this occupation is set by national pay scales (NHS bands), so no single Home Office going rate applies.

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Role description

Job summary

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.

Main duties of the job

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.

About us

#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?

Date posted

26 October 2026

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,387 to £56,515 a year Per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

179-8350869-C

Job locations

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

Hardwick Lane

Bury St Edmunds

IP33 2QZ

United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job summary

Act as a specialist pharmacist for the medicines management and pharmaceutical aspects of the Trust e-Care system
Act as the Pharmacy departments link with the Trust/Cerner e-Care team
In conjunction with the Lead Specialist EPMA Pharmacist and Chief Pharmacy Information Officer (CPIO) ensure that the available Pharmacy resources are suitably trained with respect to the e-Care system and developed to ensure the effective provision of a comprehensive pharmacy service.
In conjunction with the Lead Specialist EPMA Pharmacist & CPIO ensure that the e-Care drug dictionary is maintained and updated.
In conjunction with the Lead Specialist EPMA Pharmacist & CPIO ensure that all e-Care content and functionality is up to date and fit for purpose.
In conjunction with the Trust Medication Safety Officer review any e-Care related medication incidents to ensure that system related risks are highlighted and minimised.
Provide a clinical pharmacy service to allocated wards and the dispensary as rostered.
To give professional advice on pharmaceutical matters to medical, nursing and other professional staff.
To participate in flexible working hours in accordance with Trust policy.
Providing on-call/out of hours support to the Trust on a rostered basis.

Person Specification

Education & Qualification

Essential

M.Pharm/B Pharm/BSc Pharmacy.
Registered with the GPhC.
Post Graduate qualification in clinical Pharmacy or nearing completion, or demonstration of equivalent experience

Desirable

Membership of RPSGB.

Personal Qualities

Essential

Demonstrates a professional attitude and understands professionalism.
Good communication skills (both written and verbal).
Ability to work calmly and in an organised fashion in a busy environment.
Demonstrates ability to plan and prioritise own workload to meet deadlines.
Approachable and supportive to peers and other staff.
Good team member.
Ability to work well on own initiative.
Ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues and patients.
Ability to work to deadlines and achieve agreed objectives.
Positive attitude towards personal/self-development
Flexibility to work in different areas

Experience and Knowledge

Essential

Knowledge of hospital pharmacy
Knowledge of electronic prescribing and administration systems
Recent experience of working in hospital Pharmacy
Clinical pharmacy ward experience
Experience of patient counselling
Experience of using high level IT functionality

Desirable

Experience of out of hours Pharmacy service
Experience of therapeutic drug monitoring
Experience of updating back office functions of electronic prescribing / record systems

Skills & Abilities

Essential

Expected to deal with members of the public and other health care workers in a professional manner
Close liaison with co-workers in the department and throughout the trust is vital
Expected to have a broad knowledge of pharmaceutical issues
Evidence of self-motivated professional development
Expected to participate in the out of hours and bank holiday rotas
Expected to participate in the flexible hours, Saturday and bank holiday rotas
Ability to travel

Desirable

Familiar with standard IT systems

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

Address

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust

Hardwick Lane

Bury St Edmunds

IP33 2QZ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.wsh.nhs.uk

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