A Vacancy at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
We are delighted to invite applications to theSpecialist Clinical Pharmacist in Surgical cancer & specialitiespost, joining our friendly surgical team to deliver a specialised service to our surgical cancer patients at City Hospital including our breast, burns, urology and thoracic tertiary referral centre.
The post offers an excellent opportunity to develop your portfolio of specialist knowledge and skills for the management of patients as part of a multidisciplinary team, as well as build on your leadership abilities.
Our vision is tobeoutstanding in health outcomes and patient & staff experience
You will be responsible for working directly with our clinicians, nurse specialists and finance teams to deliver safe and effective treatment to patients within the surgical cancer pathways at NUH.
You will provide complex, pharmaceutical care for patients, optimising their medicines, utilising your prescribing skills and ensuring the effective transfer of care. This role provides an excellent opportunity for an experienced, motivated clinical pharmacist to take on responsibility for a rewarding area of the trust, with the chance to develop the service which is offered to this area.
As a senior member of the pharmacist team there will be the opportunity to help support and mentor the junior members of the team and trainee pharmacists. You will be expected to line manage one or more of the band 7 pharmacists on the team, providing mentoring, and supporting them with their development and objectives. You will be supported by the divisional lead pharmacist for surgery, as well as being able to call upon the support and expertise of the large pharmacy department at NUH.
With over 19,000 staff,we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.’
The post will be predominately based at the Nottingham City Hospital campus, but there will be the potential need to travel to the Queens Medical Centre Campus as required. The role will be mainly Monday to Friday 9am- 5pm, but these hours are negotiable. You will also be required to participate in a rostered weekend and bank holiday rota. In addition to this, there is a requirement to support the on-call pharmacists through the senior pharmacist back-up rota which is currently once every 4-5 months.
The pharmacy department at NUH is forward thinking and constantly implementing innovative ways of working to deliver the best possible patient care. We continue to extend the ideal model of delivering medicines optimisation and pharmaceutical care where pharmacists are fully integrated into the medical teams, supported by a team of medicines management technicians and assistants.
You will be joining NUH at an exciting time as we have just recently transitioned to electronic prescribing bringing new opportunities to enhance the way in which we deliver care to our patients.
Please refer to the full job description as part of the advert. If you have any further questions about the post please do not hesitate to get in touch with Carrie Cramp on the contact details provided.
This advert closes on Thursday 21 Nov 2024