Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Pharmacist Surgical
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (The post holder will be expected to work across a 7-day working pattern providing support to extended hours, weekend service and bank holiday as required by team or departmental rotas.)
- Job ref
- 225-Div3-6014951-A
- Employer
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, New Cross Hospital Pharmacy Department
- Town
- Wolverhampton
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Pharmacist - Emergency Surgery
Band 8a
Job overview
We have a fantastic opportunity for a motivated and dynamic pharmacist to lead a clinical pharmacy service to our emergency surgery services.
You will be joining our existing team of pharmacists and technicians supported by the Principal Pharmacist for Surgical (Division 1). The RWT Pharmacy Team are proud winners of the Trusts Clinical Team of the Year Award 2024, and our overwhelmingly positive staff survey results speak for themselves.
We recognise the variety of opportunities available to pharmacy professionals and if you choose to join our team, we want you to feel valued and supported. We will work with you to fulfil your full potential in collaboration with our pharmacy education and training team.
Applicants must be registered with the GPhC, have a broad range of hospital pharmacy experience, and have or be working towards a postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy (or equivalent).
An independent prescribing qualification is desirable, however support and funding will be provided to the post-holder if they do not already hold this qualification.
(Band 7 to 8a step up may be considered if all essential criteria are not met – see Person Specification for more information)
If you are interested in the role and believe you hold the qualities we require, then please apply!
Main duties of the job
To provide an expert level of clinical pharmacy services to wards and departments caring for adult patients with emergency surgical conditions.
To lead specialist clinical pharmacy practice for emergency surgery services and be responsible for the delivery, development, evaluation, and co-ordination of clinical pharmacy services in line with the objectives of the division and the RWT pharmacy strategy.
To be responsible for all aspects of medicines management to optimise patients' care involving the use and re-use of medication.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We work together, and in conjunction with other stake holders, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
The Pharmacy department has a 'can do' attitude and strives to always provide the best service possible to our patients and our colleagues. The pharmacy vision is to be a 'service without walls', integrated not only within the ward teams supporting excellent patient care but bridging the gap between secondary and primary care teams. We are a multicultural and diverse department with a very friendly professional working environment promoting a strong health and wellbeing agenda for our workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The postholder will provide the following to the wards and departments in emergency surgical services (not exhaustive):
Provide and manage a specialist clinical pharmacy service to the wards and departments within emergency surgical services.
To provide expert pharmaceutical advice regarding surgical patients who have complex drug regimes, polypharmacy and medicines adverse effect. Promote the safe, appropriate, and economic use of medications both within the pharmacy department and on the wards.
To provide clinical and directorate support to the surgical services directorate. To develop and deliver innovative services that help improve the surgical patient journey and outcome.
Implement local and national guidelines where appropriate e.g. NICE. To support the Trusts Medication Safety Officer and Pharmacy Governance lead with the medicine’s optimisation and governance agenda.
Participate in the training of pharmacists, ward-based technicians, undergraduate students, doctors and nurses.
Take part in extended hours, weekends, and bank holiday out of hours services as required by departmental rotas.
Please read the attached documents for more information regarding the detail of expected duties and personal specifications.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- Experience as a clinical pharmacist in a range of specialties within an acute hospital environment
- Experience of working as part of the wider Pharmacy team within surgery
- Experience of project management and leadership skills
- Examples of how you have completed continued professional development and integrated theses into your current practice
- To have or be working towards a postgraduate clinical diploma or equivalent qualification
Desirable criteria
- Independent Prescriber qualification or working towards this qualification
- Ability to demonstrate specialist knowledge of pharmacy in the context of surgery
- Postgraduate management qualification or relevant management experience
- Any experience of wider cross sector working e.g. virtual wards, primary care, prescribing support team
- Any interests/hobbies that provide you with professional and personal qualities that you can bring to the role; please describe how these benefit you in your role as a pharmacist
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jaspreet Kaur
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist Division 1 (Surgical)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01902 695757
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