Are you a highly motivated and experienced pharmacist with passion for Medicines Optimisation? Looking for an opportunity to lead a clinical pharmacy team to ensure safety, evidence-based practice and improve patient experience? Do you have the skills and experience to manage, motivate and inspire pharmacists and medicines management technicians? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!, As a Principal Pharmacist, you will:
* Management and supervision of pharmacists and Medicines Management Technicians and develop a competent, motivated, and versatile clinical pharmacy workforce.
* Providing leadership role for good Medicines Management to ensure and to promote safe and secure handling of medicines in their clinical area of responsibility
* Leading Medicines Optimisation agenda to ensure and to promote patient safety, treatment effectiveness, better patient experience with treatment, embedding medicines optimisation principles in routine clinical practice in their clinical area of responsibility
* Working with leadership in the Trust and commissioners to support wider Trust requirements in relation to medicines management and medicines optimisation
* Developing and implementing clinical pharmacy standards and quality improvement initiatives
* Leading the development, delivery, evaluation, and improvement of clinical pharmacy services across the Trust
* Providing professional expertise, advice, and training to health professionals, patients and carers.
NSFT Pharmacy department has attracted a significant new investment to support, develop and improve our clinical pharmacy service. We are looking for a Principal Pharmacist to help us improve safe and effective use of medicines to improve patient outcome. This is a rewarding opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of our patients.
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The post-holder will be based in the Gate Lodge, Ipswich, Suffolk. This is a full-time post and will involve some travelling across different sites within Norfolk and Suffolk. NSFT has recently approved significant new investment in pharmacy workforce. So, you will be joining a growing and enthusiastic department., Some of the benefits included with this role:
* NHS pension
* a comprehensive in house & external training programmes
* career progression
* starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
* staff physio service
* NHS discounts and many more
Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing experiences and learning from each other. In addition to ongoing training and development opportunities, we are committed to providing an environment in which you can thrive.
Why work for us? We have challenges as a Trust, but we have ambitious aspirations, are pushing ahead with exciting transformation work and we need dedicated individuals to support us on our journey. We have strong, established professional networks coupled with an exceptional leadership team who will ensure you are truly cared for and cared about.
Why Norfolk and Suffolk? The people here are warm and welcoming, you'll never be far from the beautiful coastline or Broads National Park. We're an hour and a half away from London and have an international airport in Norwich too. Our villages, towns and cities are packed full of history, independent cafes, shops and theatres. We have excellent shopping, eating out, top ranking schooling and affordable house prices too.