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Job overview

We are looking for a lead pharmacist for General Medicine and to take overarching responsibility for our service to our Critical Care and HDU wards

This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated, open minded and dynamic pharmacist who is an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal / relationship building skills.  

You will lead the pharmacy clinical service within your specialty day to day at the Southend Hospital site, supporting the site Clinical Lead Pharmacist by ensuring patients receive a safe and effective service. 

You will work closely with the other lead clinical pharmacists for Critical Care based at the Basildon and Broomfield sites.

The successful candidate will need to be an experienced pharmacist that has worked across a variety of clinical areas and is now ready to specialise in adult medicine.   You will have experience in good service delivery and management, and a proven track record of delivering change within dynamic environments.

If you are interested in the role and believe you have the qualities we require, then apply today!

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the role will include :

• Providing a clinical service to the wards, discharge and outpatients service
• Attend clinical ward rounds, clinical and multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate
• Regularly recording clinical interventions and activities.
• Provide specialist pharmaceutical information to medical, nursing and other staff within the Trust where appropriate.
• Promote the safe, appropriate and economic use of drugs.
• Counsel and advise patients on use of medicines.
• Take part in the emergency on-call pharmacist rota.  Working alone as the on call pharmacist, provide: medicines information, advice and supply out of hours, and sourcing of urgently required drugs from external suppliers.
• To support the Trust Medication Safety Officer and Pharmacy Risk 
  Governance Pharmacy Team  with the medicines optimisation and governance agenda.
• Monitor the safe and secure storage of medication both within the pharmacy department and on the wards.
• Implement local and national guidelines where appropriate e.g.  NICE.
• Supervise trainee pharmacists, undergraduate students and ward-based technicians. 

Working for our organisation

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.

We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well-being of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook – if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.