Pharmacist Specialist - Planned Care | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 22 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £43,742 - £50,056 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 22 May 2024 |
| Location: | Stevenage, SG1 4AB |
| Company: | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6205857/361-PLN-6205857 |
Summary
We are recruiting for a Pharmacist Specialist - Planned Care who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, and adaptable pharmacist with excellent communication and interpersonal skills to support the pharmacy department.
The successful candidate will utilise their clinical knowledge to deliver a high quality, safe and effective person-centred clinical pharmacy service to patients on specialist surgical wards within the Trust, working closely with the multidisciplinary team.
This post comes with development opportunities that include undertaking the non-medical prescribing qualification and NHS leadership training.
Whilst this role is currently advertised as a part time (24 hours per week) 12 month fixed-term post, there will be real opportunities to make this a substantive post for the right candidate. A suitable working pattern over 3-4 days can be negotiated.
Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!
To act as the lead pharmacist for a designated surgical speciality ensuring all aspects of the service are developed and supported.
To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service, critical care, theatres, trauma and orthopaedics, general surgery, plastics, ophthalmology, urology and speciality surgery covering all aspects of medicines management.
To support the Pharmacist Team Lead - Planned Care, in directorate reporting, undertaking audits as required and assisting with the provision of financial and other information.
To provide clinical training and assessment of junior clinical pharmacists and foundation trainee pharmacists whilst on rotation through surgery.
To provide education and training for doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals.
To undertake risk management and ensures compliance with medicines legislation.
To carry out general dispensing and associated clinical and pharmaceutical duties and to assist with the provision of the pharmaceutical service to the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.
To provide teaching and day to day supervision of junior clinical pharmacists, technicians and pharmacy support workers.
At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We understand that finding and starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
This advert closes on Monday 6 May 2024