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Pharmacy Patient Services Lead - Band 6 | North Bristol NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 13 February 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £37,338 - £44,962 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 16 March 2025 |
| Location: | Bristol, BS10 5NB |
| Company: | North Bristol NHS |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7013068/339-KLE5474-A |
Summary
The Pharmacy Dept. at Southmead is a forward thinking, dynamic and innovative team with a strong clinical and patient focus. Aiming to provide new exciting opportunities, we are excited to invite an enthusiastic & driven Patient Services Lead to join our ever expanding Patient Services team.
This blended Medicines Optimisation and Dispensary post balance Medicines Management and Dispensary in a rotational manner. Providing an excellent opportunity to learn and develop in a supportive environment. With the forward-thinking aim of moving towards ward-based services.
The successful candidate will have good communications skills and be able to manage and guide all patient services staff who are of various skill levels with proven experience in leadership and mentoring of teams.
North Bristol Trust is moving towards a ward based working structure, this post is designed to help facilitate this change and move NBT towards a decentralised service putting pharmacy processes closer to the patients and enabling a more efficient patient journey towards discharge.
The vacancy is an evolving role to facilitate the implementation of ward-based working and we are hopeful to attract a successful candidate with experience in change management and managing teams through times of change. The successful candidate should be open to implementing new processes, whilst supporting staff and managing the needs of the organisation.
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Patient Services teams facilitate an effective service both within the ward based and dispensary-based services. The successful candidate will ensure that all procedures and processes relating to labelling, dispensing and checking medication requests are robust and adhered to, whilst ensuring workflow is completed in accordance with departmental KPI targets.
The post holder will support the Patient Services Manager in the provision of all operational aspects of the dispensary and medicines management services. Deputising as necessary in management of the services. Aside from facilitating the rapid discharge of patients from hospital and to ensure that Pharmacy and the Trust meets its objectives with regards to TTA request turnaround times. Ensuring the Trust’s WDA license requirements are adhered to in the provision of named patient and CD supply to WDA customers.
The successful candidate will ensure that all staff work to a high standard, providing quality pharmacy services to patients and multidisciplinary staff interacting with Patient Services team.
Strong IT skills are required within the role to ensure that operating systems can be used, data extracted and presented to aid continuous service development and improvement.
Other duties are outlined in the Job Description and Person Specification.
Our vision at NBT is that by enabling our teams to be the best they can be we will provide Exceptional Healthcare, Personally Delivered. This means that our patients recognise that we are exemplars of safe, harm-free care and that we give them the best possible health improvement.
As a major acute teaching hospital and centre of excellence in a number of fields we will do this through the dedication of you, our outstanding 8000 staff, and through a genuine partnership with our patients, the public and local partners. By doing this we will, as OneNBT, provide a place you are proud to work and an outstanding patient and carer experience.
We treat some of the most difficult medical conditions, in an increasingly complex and growing patient population made even more complex by the challenges we face due to Covid-19. Yet we are confident in our ability to be ready for the next five years, even in these uncertain times. This is thanks to our understanding of the financial, capital and transformation actions we will need to take to deliver our ambitious strategy and objectives launched at the start of the year. Not only will we continue to increase our offer to you, our staff, but will work with you and our partners to make sure we achieve all we set out to do.
For more information on this role, please see attached job description or contact Sherab Gyaltsen or Julie Hamer on the below details:
sherab.gyaltsen@nbt.nhs.uk
julie.hamer@nbt.nhs.uk
0117 41 42312
This advert closes on Sunday 2 Mar 2025