Lead Clinical Pharmacist – Surgery and Nutrition | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 22 August 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £53,755 - £60,504 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 September 2024 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO4 5JL |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6588858/432-HR1081-24 |
Summary
Are you an experienced pharmacist looking for a career change or your next challenge in an acute hospital trust?
Due to career progression we are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our modern purpose-built facilities at Colchester Hospital. This key position will allow a committed and self-motivated Pharmacist to lead our Pharmacy services to surgical patients.
You will be predominantly ward-based and a fully established member of the multi-disciplinary team. You will be pivotal in developing our clinical service within the speciality and will have responsibility for the provision of Pharmacy parenteral nutrition services.
We will soon be introducing an innovative Weight Management service and you will be pivotal in ensuring its successful implementation and development.
Our friendly pharmacy team are dedicated to nurturing, mentoring and developing our staff to reach their full potential. We provide pharmacy forums and tutorials. We support personal development plans, smart objective setting and opportunities for study.
ESNEFT is about to embark on a full site wide implementation of the EPIC electronic patient record which includes electronic prescribing and administration and pharmacy stock control system replacement.
In addition to our fully automated dispensaries, we host one of the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service medicines advice sites and the Regional Pharmacy Manufacturing Unit (including a brand new Aseptic facility).
Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the optimal and cost effective use of medicines within Surgery practice; minimising drug wastage and managing the use of high-cost medicines accordingly.
Provide an advanced level clinical pharmacy service to Surgical patients in line with the pharmacy Key Performance Indicators and agreed clinical standards.
Provide ongoing clinical support and guidance to pharmacy colleagues contributing to the clinical pharmacy service within Surgery.
Develop clinical pharmacy input into Surgical Services and provide departmental leadership into this speciality.
Be the lead clinical pharmacist in the provision of parenteral nutrition services, in accordance with local and national standards and strategy.
Oversee the implementation of, and further development of, the Trust’s Weight Management service.
About our Pharmacy Service
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Sep 2024