Medicines Advice Pharmacist - Horizon Scanning

Medicines Advice Pharmacist - Horizon Scanning

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Band 8a

Main area
:
Specialist Pharmacy Services

Grade
:
Band 8a

Contract
:
Permanent Remote working

Hours
: 37.5 hours per week (Secondment possible)

Job : 287-PPU-15-25

Department name
: LUH - 1 General Staffing (AFC posts)

Site
:
Pharmacy Practice Unit, Liverpool

Salary
: £55,690 - £62,682 per annum (Yearly)

Closing
: 21/01/2026 23:59

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic pharmacist (Band 8A), with experience of horizon scanning for new medicines, to join the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS). This is a newly established post and will expand our existing horizon scanning team within the Medicines Advice function of SPS. Secondments, job shares and part time working will be considered. The post is hosted by the Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and based at the Pharmacy Practice Unit with opportunity to work remotely.

The postholder will support the delivery of key outputs of the HS service, including those produced for key customers involved with the managed entry of medicines nationally. This involves working with and interpreting data, as well as maintaining our internal database of pipeline medicines, to provide expert advice on the impact of new medicines in the NHS. It may also involve supplementing desktop data with qualitative data provided by key stakeholders and clinicians.

The resulting reports are insightful and evaluated, providing valuable information for the development of national services and delivery mechanisms. As priorities change and evolve, individual flexibility is essential to ensure the delivery of outputs and projects on time.

The post holder will work as part of a small expert team to support the delivery of key outputs of the HS service. The current horizon scanning team is dispersed across different locations, and therefore has experience working collaboratively and remotely.

The NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service (SPS) supports the NHS to develop best practice systems of work related to buying, making and using medicines. The service provides leadership, instructive and informative specialist input and operational support to the sourcing, supply and use of medicines across the system. Our strengths are borne out of connecting national expertise with policy teams and arm's length bodies to ensure consistency and high standards.

The service supports both regional and local connections to ensure that the service's outputs resonate with and support local NHS organisations which deliver care to patients. The key successes of SPS are through the development of a "Do Once and Share" methodology.

• Be accountable for their own actions and those of any staff that they line manage.

• Manage their own work under the direction of the SPS MA Advanced Pharmacist, or SPS MA Professional or Associate Leads.

• Support service delivery changes within the NHS SPS MA Service.

• Represent the NHS SPS MA at a range of meetings with stakeholders, commissioners and providers from across the NHS as required.

• Be expected to act largely independently, with minimum input from senior pharmacists, and to behave and act in a manner consistent with the values of the NHS SPS.

• Where appropriate and necessary, the post-holder will be expected to provide medicines advice relating to a specialist service.

• Support the Advanced MA Pharmacist to work with a range of diverse stakeholders across pharmacy and elsewhere; these will be both regional and national colleagues. The postholder is expected to express their own view and position assertively and with reference to the problem being addressed but be able to seek consensus where possible. They will know where it is appropriate to refer to the relevant SPS Advanced MA Pharmacist, or SPS MA Professional/Associate Lead.

• Maintain concentration for prolonged periods of time, while writing, checking or evaluating information.

• Deputise for SPS Advanced MA Pharmacist when necessary.