Main area: Pharmacy
Grade: 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (plus weekends, on-call duties and 1 late shift per week)
Job ref: 390-CSS-SO-9355
Employer: Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Southend
Town: Westcliff-on-Sea
Salary: £53,755 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/11/2024 23:59
Job overview
We are looking for a lead pharmacist to take overarching responsibility for our service to our Endocrine and Gastro wards. This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated, open-minded and dynamic pharmacist who is an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal/relationship-building skills.
You will lead the pharmacy clinical service within your specialty day to day at the Southend Hospital site, supporting the site Clinical Lead Pharmacist by ensuring patients receive a safe and effective service. You will work closely with the other lead clinical pharmacists at the Basildon and Broomfield sites.
The successful candidate will need to be an experienced pharmacist that has worked across a variety of clinical areas and is now ready to specialise in adult medicine. You will have experience in good service delivery and management, and a proven track record of delivering change within dynamic environments.
If you are interested in the role and believe you have the qualities we require, then apply today!
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the role will include:
* Providing a clinical service to the wards, discharge and outpatients service.
* Attend clinical ward rounds, clinical and multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate.
* Regularly recording clinical interventions and activities.
* Provide specialist pharmaceutical information to medical, nursing and other staff within the Trust where appropriate.
* Promote the safe, appropriate and economic use of drugs.
* Counsel and advise patients on use of medicines.
* Take part in the emergency on-call pharmacist rota, working alone as the on-call pharmacist to provide medicines information, advice and supply out of hours, and sourcing of urgently required drugs from external suppliers.
* Support the Trust Medication Safety Officer and Pharmacy Risk Governance Pharmacy Team with the medicines optimisation and governance agenda.
* Monitor the safe and secure storage of medication both within the pharmacy department and on the wards.
* Implement local and national guidelines where appropriate e.g. NICE.
* Supervise trainee pharmacists, undergraduate students and ward-based technicians.
Person specification
Clinical Pharmacy PG
* Masters
* Membership of RPS & active
* Membership of clinical group e.g. UKCPA & active
Experience
Directorate activity
* Experience in e.g. MMGs, PGDs, finance reports, teaching
Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.
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.
Name: Caroline Giggins
Job title: Clinical Lead Pharmacist, Women & Children
Email address: [emailprotected]
Telephone number: 01702385735
Additional information: Tomi Tommy-Uffang 01702385221
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