Employer: Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Queen Victoria Hospital
Town: East Grinstead
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata for part time
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 10/03/2025 23:59
Advanced Theatre Pharmacist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Welcome to Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and thank you for your interest.
In addition to receiving tertiary referrals from across the South East of England, we have a network of ‘spoke’ sites at district general hospitals enabling our consultants to offer their expertise with routine treatments and consultations as close to patients’ homes as possible.
Working at QVH combines the excitement, challenge, and career opportunities of many larger organisations with the satisfaction of delivering excellent patient care that really does re-build our patients’ lives.
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinical pharmacist to take on this new position, to lead and develop the pharmacy service to our theatres and pre-assessment at the QVH site. As the Theatre Pharmacist for the theatre block, you will be working closely with our reputable clinical teams to ensure patients are ready for their surgery.
Main duties of the job
* Lead, develop and evaluate medicines optimisation in Theatres and Pre-Assessment.
* Provide and manage medicines optimisation for surgical patients, which includes prescribing appropriate medicines for them on admission to Theatres and in Pre-Assessment and antimicrobial stewardship.
* Manage own case load and provide expert opinion on medicines where appropriate.
* Accept case referrals from Pre-Assessment and provide expert opinion on medicine(s) issues.
* Provide a framework for medicines governance including auditing activities within Perioperative services to ensure their monitoring and adherence.
* Plan, manage, prescribe, monitor, and review therapeutic programmes and demonstrate expert clinical knowledge in the management of perioperative medicines.
* Line manage a member of the pharmacy team and be part of the senior pharmacy team.
* Monitor and report on drug expenditure for perioperative services.
You must have self-motivation, enthusiasm, and the ability to lead with minimal direction. Clear, sound judgment, practice evidence-based medicine, and a broad general clinical pharmacy knowledge and skills are essential.
Person specification
Qualifications
* GPhC registered
* Post-graduate certificate in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
* MPharm in Pharmacy or equivalent
* MSc in clinical Pharmacy or equivalent practical experience
* Management Qualification
Skills
* Negotiation and influencing skills
* Good keyboard and IT skills
Attributes
* Flexible and effective teamworker
* Self-motivated and able to motivate others
* Excellent communication skills
* Good time management and persistence
* Good analytical and organisational ability
* Decisive, using sound judgment in a timely and confident manner
Experience
* Extensive hospital clinical pharmacy experience
* Multidisciplinary working experience
* Involvement in medicines audit
* Experience in service improvement or change management projects
* Staff management experience
Knowledge
* Broad clinical knowledge of medicines and pharmacology
* Experience in delivering pharmaceutical care to acute medical and surgical patients
* Experience in managing a clinical pharmacy service
This is for an experienced pharmacist with a proven record of being a flexible team player able to cope with unpredictable work patterns. Currently, there are no weekend duties, but you may be expected to provide some bank holiday cover.
The role is a permanent full-time post.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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