Are you an enthusiastic and proactive leader looking for your next challenge? Do you enjoy working in a dedicated team environment? We are looking for a passionate and motivated Pharmacist to lead and manage a team of pharmacy professionals, alongside the pharmacy services to our unplanned care - adult medicine specialities at SJUH, including care of the older person, speciality and integrated medicines/urgent care, diabetes & endocrinology, respiratory medicine, cystic fibrosis, infectious diseases.
Are you interested in being part of an innovative pharmacy department and be instrumental in influencing the direction of pharmacy services within these areas? If you want to work as part of a dynamic and forward-thinking team to make a difference to patient care, we would love to hear from you.
Main Duties of the Job
You will be responsible for the provision and development of clinical pharmacy services to our adult medicine specialities within unplanned care at SJUH, including our A&E departments at LGI and SJUH. You will lead and line manage a team of clinical pharmacists that are responsible for clinical pharmacy across a range of specialities (SDEC same day emergency care, A&E, diabetes, endocrinology, respiratory medicine, cystic fibrosis, infectious disease, care of the older person, acute medicine).
You will be developing strategic plans and staffing requirements for pharmacy services to these areas.
You will develop and manage the delivery of pharmacy services to ensure efficient use of resources and systems, including monitoring drug expenditure and delivery of financial savings. You will be responsible for the provision of information to CSU's regarding clinical and financial governance, and issues around service delivery and future developments.
There are fantastic opportunities to get involved in quality improvement and practice research projects.
We want you to inspire our diverse and highly skilled team of clinical pharmacy staff and play a key leadership role in the Trust, and wider care systems, in delivering our vision of medicines optimisation within our unplanned care specialities.
About Us
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is a fantastic trust to work for with great opportunities to develop. We need people who are passionate about their role and who can uphold the Leeds Way Values to ensure the patients' journey is a positive experience.
There will be commitment to providing core professional commitments, late night duties and weekend duties within the Medicines Management and Pharmacy Service.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any queries.
Job Responsibilities
To manage a team of pharmacists delivering specialist clinical pharmacy services to specified Clinical Service/Support Units (CSUs) within the Trust. To be the first point of contact and support for the CSUs on all matters relating to pharmacy.
Provide expert opinion, both within and outside pharmacy, to ensure the safe and effective delivery of drug therapy to defined clinical areas.
Provide pharmaceutical professional leadership for defined clinical areas by liaison with pharmacy operational services and key members of the CSU. Be responsible for professional leadership for specified area of Trust e.g. locality hospital.
The post holder will also perform the role of a lead clinical pharmacist to a defined clinical area. In this role, the post holder will ensure medicines are used appropriately, safely, and cost-effectively in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation. The post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieved in specific circumstances.
Manage a team of specialist pharmacists providing clinical pharmacy services to the defined clinical areas and CSUs.
Responsible for the provision of information to the CSUs regarding clinical and financial governance, and issues around service delivery and future developments.
Responsible for the coordination of training for pharmacists and other healthcare professionals on aspects of drug use within defined clinical specialities.
Provide a minimum of at least one session of professional supervisory cover in the dispensary, aseptic dispensary, Medicines Information Department or other related activity. The post holder will be required to work evenings, weekends and Bank Holidays on a rotational basis.
To act as the responsible pharmacist in line with local procedures.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* MPharm
* Post Graduate Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
* Non-medical prescriber
Experience
* Understanding and appreciation of local and national pharmaceutical clinical strategies
* Advanced Clinical pharmacy knowledge in relevant area
* Understanding of NHS government policy and its applications
Skills & Behaviours
* Team Player
* Enthusiastic & Self-Motivated
* Able to work under own initiative
* Be highly adaptive to changing circumstances
* Meticulous attention to detail
* Leadership
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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