Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- 8b
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Will be required to visit cross-site at Wexham Park Hospital on a regular basis.)
- Job ref
- 151-HS-16A
- Employer
- Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Frimley Park Hospital
- Town
- Frimley, Camberley
- Salary
- £60,983 - £70,536 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Principal Pharmacist for Chronic Medicine- Fixed Term
8b
Job overview
We are looking for maternity cover to lead the clinical pharmacy services to Chronic Medicine and the Frimley Park Hospital site. This is a fantastic opportunity for the right person to develop their leadership and management skills.
The post will oversee the day to day running of the team at the Frimley Park site, while having a cross-site overview of the delivery of Chronic medicine (including Rheum, Cystic Fibrosis etc) to the wider Trust.
Main duties of the job
- To develop the clinical pharmacy service to chronic care medicine across the Trust.
- To run the day to day pharmacy clinical service to the medical wards at Frimley Park Hospital.
- To act as a role model in the field of clinical pharmacy practice and provide a consistently high standard of clinical service in line with the pharmacy objectives.
- To recruit, manage and develop staff under the postholder.
Working for our organisation
There’s never been a more exciting time to build your career at Frimley Health, one of the country’s largest and most respected trusts
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other.
If you have a passion for clinical excellence, patient care and your own career development, you’ll feel at home at Frimley Health.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To support the Clinical Pharmacy Manager with the day to day running of the pharmacy services to the medical teams at the Frimley Park site.
- To support the management, planning and delivery of Pharmacy services to Chronic Medicine at all sites, including Wexham Park. This will include at least one day a week at each site.
- To work closely with the Clinical Pharmacist Manager, clinicians and senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to chronic care medicine across the Trust at all sites.
- To support the Drugs & Therapeutics Committee agenda and formulary process.
- To promote and develop the use of Independent Prescribing by pharmacists in the delivery of care to chronic care medicine across the Trust.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered with GPhC
- Postgraduate qualification or equivalent in clinical pharmacy/pharmacy practice
- Registered Independent Prescriber
Desirable criteria
- Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Member of UKCPA
- Management training
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability and confidence to communicate with a wide range of customers, from patient to hospital consultant, including presentation skills
- Influencing skills
- Ability to work on own and as part of a team
- Ability to compile reports /cases where data is presented effectively based on evidence based information
- Organisational skills
- Ability to prioritise workload and work to deadlines
- Analytical skills
- Ability to work under pressure and cope with stressful situations
- Able to work on several issues simultaneously; able to reprioritise work in a rapidly changing environment
- Reliable
- Motivated
- Ability to demonstrate willingness to learn and develop new skills
Desirable criteria
- Innovative
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad experience in hospital clinical pharmacy
- Experience in the provision of clinical pharmacy to acute care patients
- Protocol development
- Practical experience of audit
- Experience of training others
- Ability to recognise areas for development of current practice
- Ability to change systems while taking into account the needs of others (change management)
- Committed to CPD
- Management of staff including recruitment, appraisal
Desirable criteria
- Service development
- Previous experience of clinical pharmacy to general medical/ medical specialties
- Critical evaluation skills
- Management Training
- Research skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Stuart Dark
- Job title
- Clinical Pharmacy Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07880102186
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