Senior Pharmacist - Medicines Advice

London, England, United Kingdom

8/1/2025

Guy’s and St Thomas’ Medicines Information (MI) department, based at Guy’s Hospital, is one of the busiest in the country and employs approximately 20 staff (including Clinical Governance and Formulary).

The Teams Provide An Enquiry Answering Service To

• Healthcare professionals working at Guy’s hospital, St. Thomas’ Hospital, Evelina Children’s Hospital, King’s College Hospital and The Princess Royal University Hospital.
• Health care professionals working in community services and primary care
• Patients via our dedicated patient ‘Medicines Helpline’
• Primary care healthcare professionals via the Medicines Helpline
  
  

The team also undertakes pro-active work and contributes to local, regional and national MI outputs. It is one of the national centres commissioned to provide medicines advice for primary care as part of the Specialist Pharmacy Services (SPS).

• Work as part of a high-performing team to provide medicines information and advice within Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust and to other service users in accordance with established policies and procedures.
• Utilise your expertise to train a wide variety of pharmacy and non-pharmacy staff to provide medicines information and advice professionally and effectively.
• Maintain a theoretical and practical knowledge of medicines optimisation in primary and secondary care as it applies to the service needs.
• Assist in the development of training programmes and provide training in medicines information skills to trainee and junior pharmacists.
• Support the delivery of local projects for service development as requested by the Principal Pharmacist for Medicines Advice
• Be responsible for the provision of medicines management as part of clinical services provided directly to patients.
  
  

Guy's and St Thomas' Medicines Advice team is part of a large, vibrant service focussing on delivery of advice related to Medicines Effectiveness and Safety. We are a team of approximately 20 individuals. The Trust’s Medicines Advice Service sits alongside the national Specialist Pharmacy Service. We aim to promote the safe, effective and economic use of medicines in patients, through active provision of accurate information and advice.

We provide clinical advice about medicines to a large number of health care professionals and patients. We support many trainee pharmacists and rotational pharmacists as they train in medicines advice skills.

Guys' and St Thomas’ Pharmacy Department is one of the largest in the UK and has a strong focus on individual patient care. Our pharmacists work across multi-disciplinary teams both in the hospital and community setting, to deliver advice, guidance, and support within a culture of medicine safety. The focus is on patient-centred care and this is achieved through providing optimised pharmaceutical care for patients as part of a ward-based and clinical pharmacy service and extending pharmaceutical services beyond traditional boundaries. This includes attendance on consultant-led ward rounds and contributing to multi-disciplinary meetings.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sujetha Surandran Job title: Principal Pharmacist - Medicines Advice Service Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 020 718 88750