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Senior Pharmacist - Antimicrobial Stewardship
| Posting date: | 12 July 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 August 2024 |
| Location: | York, YO31 8HE |
| Company: | York Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6438032/419-6438032-SP-PSD |
Summary
A Vacancy at York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Do you want your next role in pharmacy to:
· Be in a central city full of culture and opportunities to support great work-life balance?
· Work in a passionate team within a friendly pharmacy department?
· Collaborate with and be supported by an excellent MDT?
· Maintain and enhance your clinical knowledge of antimicrobials?
· Shape the future of a specialist service?
· Balance autonomous and collaborative multi-disciplinary team working?
· Maintain/achieve non-medical prescriber (NMP) status?
Our 8a Antimicrobial Pharmacist role combines all the above.
You will be part of a supportive, experienced antimicrobial pharmacy team, consisting of; at York, an 8B Pharmacist for antimicrobials, 8A Pharmacist for OPAT/HIV and a senior AMS pharmacy technician, and at Scarborough, an 8A senior pharmacist for AMS/OPAT and a senior AMS pharmacy technician.
You will work alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary AMS teams,to optimise the use of antimicrobials across the Trust,ensuring that excellent patient care and medication safety is at the forefront of all decision making.
While pre-existing knowledge of antimicrobials, OPAT and HIV would be an advantage, we welcome applications from pharmacists able to demonstrate strong transferable skills.
Being an established non-medical prescriber (NMP) would be ideal but not essential for the role. Any candidate not currently a NMP would be supported through the process.
The role offers the prospect to develop and maintain a wide range of clinical knowledge and skills, within antimicrobial stewardship (AMS), OPAT and sexual health/HIV service, with leadership opportunities as part of a team approach, dependent on your interests.
Your roles will include but not limited to the following;
· Collaborate and liaise with key stakeholders within pharmacy, and wider MDT.
· Provide expert clinical advice to on antimicrobials.
· Attend AMS ward rounds and clinical MDTs, alongside infection specialists.
· Review and optimise current governance processes.
· Attend and, where appropriate, lead clinical and governance meetings.
· Review outcomes of the current service, including audit and research.
· Identify, develop, and deliver service improvement activities.
· Support service expansion
· Resource development and maintenance.
· Delivery of education
· External networking and benchmarking
· Deputise for and cross-cover with other members of the pharmacy antimicrobial team.
In addition to enhancing your specialist clinical knowledge, you will maintain your general clinical skills through ward service provision to a mutually agreed area. There will also be an element of dispensary and discharge cover, as per the requirements of the department.
Our benefits
We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:
• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)
• generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully. If you would like to discuss a potential relocation package, please speak to the recruiting department/manager at interview stage.
• A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave
• Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
• NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
• An extensive range of learning and development opportunities
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers
For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.
A full description of the role is available in the attachment: job description.
As well as the job description, please carefully read the role specific job plan attached to this advert.
Working for the Trust
Across our organisation, people are guided by values that were co-developed with staff: we are kind; we are open; and we pursue excellence.
Our values play into our ambition to develop a more diverse workforce, truly representative of our communities. We welcome applications from everyone, while working with our Staff Networks - including our Race Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability and Carers Networks - to increase the number of applications we receive from different backgrounds. If there is anything we can do to make our application process more accessible to you, please contact:yhs-tr.recruitment@nhs.net.
As part of seeking to become more inclusive, we will consider requests for flexible working from the start of your employment. It may not be suitable for every role, but we will try and be supportive where we can. We would encourage you to speak to the recruiting manager named within this advert to discuss any requirements you may have.
Armed Forces Friendly Employer
We are holders of the Gold Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britain’s Reservists and Employers. This means that we have made a statement of intent to support all Defence personnel, including with applications for employment.
COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements
Our Trust continues to strongly encourage our staff to be vaccinated against COVID19, this remains our best defence to protect our patients, ourselves and everyone else.
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Jul 2024
Do you want your next role in pharmacy to:
· Be in a central city full of culture and opportunities to support great work-life balance?
· Work in a passionate team within a friendly pharmacy department?
· Collaborate with and be supported by an excellent MDT?
· Maintain and enhance your clinical knowledge of antimicrobials?
· Shape the future of a specialist service?
· Balance autonomous and collaborative multi-disciplinary team working?
· Maintain/achieve non-medical prescriber (NMP) status?
Our 8a Antimicrobial Pharmacist role combines all the above.
You will be part of a supportive, experienced antimicrobial pharmacy team, consisting of; at York, an 8B Pharmacist for antimicrobials, 8A Pharmacist for OPAT/HIV and a senior AMS pharmacy technician, and at Scarborough, an 8A senior pharmacist for AMS/OPAT and a senior AMS pharmacy technician.
You will work alongside other members of the multi-disciplinary AMS teams,to optimise the use of antimicrobials across the Trust,ensuring that excellent patient care and medication safety is at the forefront of all decision making.
While pre-existing knowledge of antimicrobials, OPAT and HIV would be an advantage, we welcome applications from pharmacists able to demonstrate strong transferable skills.
Being an established non-medical prescriber (NMP) would be ideal but not essential for the role. Any candidate not currently a NMP would be supported through the process.
The role offers the prospect to develop and maintain a wide range of clinical knowledge and skills, within antimicrobial stewardship (AMS), OPAT and sexual health/HIV service, with leadership opportunities as part of a team approach, dependent on your interests.
Your roles will include but not limited to the following;
· Collaborate and liaise with key stakeholders within pharmacy, and wider MDT.
· Provide expert clinical advice to on antimicrobials.
· Attend AMS ward rounds and clinical MDTs, alongside infection specialists.
· Review and optimise current governance processes.
· Attend and, where appropriate, lead clinical and governance meetings.
· Review outcomes of the current service, including audit and research.
· Identify, develop, and deliver service improvement activities.
· Support service expansion
· Resource development and maintenance.
· Delivery of education
· External networking and benchmarking
· Deputise for and cross-cover with other members of the pharmacy antimicrobial team.
In addition to enhancing your specialist clinical knowledge, you will maintain your general clinical skills through ward service provision to a mutually agreed area. There will also be an element of dispensary and discharge cover, as per the requirements of the department.
Our benefits
We offer a range of benefits to support our staff including:
• Access to the NHS Pension Scheme, providing generous benefits upon retirement, as well as a lump sum and pension for dependants
• 27 days holiday rising to 33 days (depending on NHS Trust service)
• generous relocation package of up to 30% of salary (capped at £18k) to support with relocation expenses for hard to fill positions where relocation would be an expectation to undertake the role fully. If you would like to discuss a potential relocation package, please speak to the recruiting department/manager at interview stage.
• A variety of different types of paid and unpaid leave covering emergency and planned leave
• Confidential advice and support on personal, work, family and relationship issues, 24/7, from our Employee Assistance Programme
• NHS Car Lease scheme and Cycle to Work scheme
• An extensive range of learning and development opportunities
• Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping, motoring, cinema and finance from a range of providers
For further information on the fantastic range of benefits we offer please visit the Trust's dedicated Staff Benefits pages.
A full description of the role is available in the attachment: job description.
As well as the job description, please carefully read the role specific job plan attached to this advert.
Working for the Trust
Across our organisation, people are guided by values that were co-developed with staff: we are kind; we are open; and we pursue excellence.
Our values play into our ambition to develop a more diverse workforce, truly representative of our communities. We welcome applications from everyone, while working with our Staff Networks - including our Race Equality, LGBTQ+, Disability and Carers Networks - to increase the number of applications we receive from different backgrounds. If there is anything we can do to make our application process more accessible to you, please contact:yhs-tr.recruitment@nhs.net.
As part of seeking to become more inclusive, we will consider requests for flexible working from the start of your employment. It may not be suitable for every role, but we will try and be supportive where we can. We would encourage you to speak to the recruiting manager named within this advert to discuss any requirements you may have.
Armed Forces Friendly Employer
We are holders of the Gold Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme, which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britain’s Reservists and Employers. This means that we have made a statement of intent to support all Defence personnel, including with applications for employment.
COVID-19 Vaccination Requirements
Our Trust continues to strongly encourage our staff to be vaccinated against COVID19, this remains our best defence to protect our patients, ourselves and everyone else.
This advert closes on Sunday 28 Jul 2024
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