Lead Pharmacist - Virtual Wards | Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 19 May 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £62,215 - £72,293 PA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 July 2025 |
| Location: | Lincoln, LN5 7JH |
| Company: | Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7201901/818-COR222-VCP576 |
Summary
Are you an experienced clinical pharmacist looking to work at a CQC rated Outstanding organisation, whilst maintaining an excellent work:life balance (no on-call or weekends), and delivering high quality patient care Closer to Home? Do you want to work at the forefront of service development and as part of various specialist multi-disciplinary teams?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for two experienced, enthusiastic, and highly motivated lead pharmacists to join the multi-disciplinary teams of our growing clinical virtual ward services covering specialities such as cardiology, respiratory, acute medicine, frailty, and End of Life. Virtual wards are a safe and efficient alternative to NHS bedded care, supporting patients to receive acute care, monitoring, and treatment in their own home to prevent avoidable hospital admission or support early discharge.
You will be working within a growing team including Senior Pharmacy Technicians.
We are happy to consider applications for full/part time and flexible working hours.
Applicants should hold an independent prescribing qualification, but applications will be considered from those who would work towards the qualification.
To discuss this role further, please contact:
Rebecca Grinham, Lead Virtual Wards Pharmacist, r.grinham@nhs.net
or
Sangeeta Bassi, Chief Pharmacist,sangeeta.bassi1@nhs.net
The virtual ward pharmacy service will deliver a medicines optimisation agenda, taking a proactive role in the entire patient care episode. The medicines management service will ensure the safe, effective, and appropriate use of medicines through acting as an expert source of knowledge to virtual ward staff, patients, and their carers; development and implementation of policies and procedures and provision of relevant training; whilst monitoring and improving standards through audit.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagementin the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.
At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS’ workforce.
LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.
We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an ‘earn while you learn’ apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out morehttps://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev
Please refer to the role's LCHS Job Description and Person Specification..............................................
This advert closes on Sunday 8 Jun 2025