Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC: Band 8b Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Job share
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (To include rotational weekends, late nights and oncall as agreed.) Job ref 434-SCS6935556
Employer Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Buckinghamshire NHS Trust (cross site) - main site Stoke Mandeville Hospital) Town Aylesbury Salary £62,215 - £72,293 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 02/03/2025 23:59
Pharmacy Team Lead (Surgery & Critical Care)
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
We care for over half a million patients every year:
* provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
* nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
* regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
* deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact bht.recruitment@nhs.net or phone 01494 734868.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.
Job overview
An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and dynamic pharmacist to join the pharmacy team at Buckinghamshire NHS Trust as the pharmacy lead for the care group of surgery and critical care.
You will lead the pharmacy service to the care group, working with your team to optimise the pharmaceutical care of patients and ensure high quality evidence-based prescribing. You will be an expert in the management of critically unwell patients and you will be encouraged to work collaboratively with other professionals across the care group to ensure patients receive maximum benefit from their medicines.
This post would be suitable for an experienced 8a that wishes to develop or those already working at 8b level. This post will offer exciting and challenging opportunities that can be tailored by the successful post holder.
Main duties of the job
1. To lead a team delivering patient centred medicines optimisation and clinical pharmacy to critical care and surgical patients.
2. To contribute to the governance agenda within critical care at a senior level by strategically leading, managing and co-ordinating the provision of pharmacy services for critically unwell patients, ensuring high quality, safe and cost-effective care across the care group.
3. To act as role model at local, regional and national level.
4. To identify and mitigate risks relating to medicines.
5. To lead and deliver education and training relating to pharmaceutical care and management of the critically unwell and complex surgical patients.
6. To lead and develop audit, quality improvement and research within the clinical area and publish research outcomes.
7. To provide expert advice to clinicians regarding medicines for critically unwell patients.
8. To act as a non-medical prescriber.
9. To ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory medicines legislation across the care group.
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We are proud to achieve the Gold award for the Armed Forces Covenant and support applications from the Armed Forces Community. Please contact Pam.Daley@nhs.net (our Armed Forces Covenant Lead) if you would like guidance or assistance with your application.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
* Registered Pharmacist: Member of the GPhC
* Post-graduate diploma in clinically pharmacy or recognised equivalent
* Independent Prescribing qualification (or willing to study for this)
* Member of the RPS
EXPERIENCE
* Extensive experience in hospital pharmacy at a Post-Registration Pharmacist level.
* Substantial experience in delivering pharmacy services across a broad range of specialties.
* Demonstrable experience in providing clinical pharmacy services at a specialist level.
* Experience in managing and delivering projects.
* Significant experience in managing and supervising staff.
* Proficient in conducting service audits and utilising performance indicators.
* Experience working at Directorate Pharmacist level.
* Extensive experience in teaching and tutoring.
* Proven delivery of pharmacy services to critical care and surgical areas at a senior level.
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
* Capable of prioritising and managing personal workload.
* Able to work, communicate, and provide effective leadership within a team.
* Possesses clear and concise verbal and written communication skills to ensure effective liaison with the multidisciplinary team, patients, and carers, while maintaining accurate and legible records.
* Demonstrates the ability to strategically develop services and evaluate service provision.
* Skilled in influencing senior Pharmacy and hospital staff.
* Able to recognise and adopt new ideas and advancements in clinical practice, implementing them under the guidance of superiors.
* Displays a positive attitude, with the ability to identify and communicate the need for change, as well as actively participate in change management processes.
* Capable of leading and motivating both staff and oneself.
* Works effectively within teams at Departmental, Trust, or regional levels.
* Competent in identifying and managing risks.
* Willing to attend necessary training sessions for personal and service development.
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
* Able to travel to other sites within the Trust and to venues for training.
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
If you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.
Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Name Natasha Hamilton-Tanner Job title Pharmacy Team Lead - Division of SCC Email address natasha.hamilton4@nhs.net Telephone number 01296316197 Additional information
Can also contact the associate director of pharmacy for clinical services - Rachel Cox (rachel.cox13@nhs.net)
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