We are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Lead Clinical Pharmacist to steer our respiratory pharmacy service. This role focuses on the leadership of our dedicated ward pharmacy service for respiratory wards, incorporating quality improvement methodologies to demonstrate patient benefits and broader impacts on the multi-disciplinary team.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to provide high-quality care to respiratory patients, adhering to national, regional, and local guidelines.
2. Lead the inpatient delivery of ward pharmacy services on respiratory wards.
3. Identify and develop service improvement models to enhance medicine optimisation for respiratory patients.
4. Provide leadership around medicines governance.
The respiratory service at Sherwood Forest Hospitals offers a variety of specialist services, catering to inpatients, outpatients, and those on a virtual ward pathway.
Join us and be part of a collaborative team dedicated to delivering optimal pharmaceutical care to our patients. This is your chance to make a significant impact within a forward-thinking healthcare setting.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
Thank you for your interest in this role. Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020. The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.
For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England. Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.
We would love you to join us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Clinical Pharmacy knowledge associated with a 4 year Pharmacy degree course
2. Experience gained through 1 year preregistration training
3. Experience gained through vocational practice.
Desirable
1. Experience of staff management.
Contractual Requirements
Essential
1. Flexibility in working hours
2. Able to work extended hours
Experience
Essential
1. BSc, BPharm or MPharm in Pharmacy
2. Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
3. Diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy gained through post-graduate study or equivalent experience including the CPPE Primary care pharmacy education pathway
Desirable
1. Post-graduate studies
2. Qualification in management
3. Independent prescribing
Further Training
Essential
1. Experience of medicine usage evaluation and financial reporting
2. Audit and/or quality improvement experience.
Desirable
1. Project work.
2. Practice research
Knowledge
Essential
1. Clinical knowledge from aspects of career to date.
2. Appropriate experience of hospital pharmacy
Desirable
1. Evidence-based practice.
2. Teaching experience.
3. Experience of extended roles.
4. Experience of specialist work within the medical area.
Employer details
Employer name
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
King's Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Sutton-In-Ashfield
NG17 4JL
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