Employer: Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Salford Royal Pharmacy
Town: Salford
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 17/10/2024 23:59
Medical High Dependency Unit and Critical Care Clinical Pharmacist
Band 8a
Job overview
Do you thrive in a collaborative and multidisciplinary environment? We would love you to join our experienced pharmacy team to develop the service to critical care and medical high dependency.
It’s an exciting time to work at Salford. We have recently received increased funding for the critical care team and to develop the service. Nationally, critical care pharmacy is one of the trailblazing specialties piloting the RPS advanced level accreditation. We will support you to develop in order to achieve RPS accreditation.
With the expanded team, we are looking to develop our service to include medical high dependency, increase our research and pharmacy/MDT educational capacity. We are looking for you to help shape this service, develop your own interests, and contribute to Trust, regional and national critical care pharmacy projects and programmes as appropriate.
A warm welcome awaits you with our friendly and supportive teams. We are innovative and forward-thinking, benefiting from a range of integrated digital systems.
We are happy to consider applications for full/part-time and flexible working hours.
Main duties of the job
Together with the pharmacy team, as part of the multidisciplinary team, you will work to provide an excellent clinical specialized pharmacy service to medical high dependency and critical care.
You will be a patient-facing active prescriber, ensuring medicines reconciliation is completed, reviewing all aspects of pharmaceutical care, and ensuring medicines optimization and safety.
You will drive forward the antimicrobial stewardship plans to optimize patient outcomes.
Across the directorates, we are looking to develop collaborative working and a proactive approach to improve medicines safety.
Your key responsibilities include clinical expertise, multidisciplinary leadership, team participation, and development and research, aligning with GPICS.
You will act as a role model for junior and foundation trainee pharmacists and have the opportunity to line manage and act as a mentor or designated supervisor.
You will work with the critical care and theatre pharmacy team to drive forward our wider clinical pharmacy service for the future. You will support the wider medicines optimization strategy and clinical governance processes within pharmacy.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust, we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate, and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us, you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities, and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role and the main job duties/responsibilities, please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
In line with the Trust’s Single Equality Scheme, we welcome applications from everyone irrespective of ethnic origin, disability, age, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, nationality, religion, marital status, social background, or trade union membership. However, as members of ethnic minority groups and individuals with disabilities are currently under-represented at this level of post, we would encourage applications from members of these groups. Appointment will be based on merit alone.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Vocational master’s degree in pharmacy or equivalent.
* Post Grad Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy.
Registration
* Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council of GB as a practicing pharmacist.
Knowledge and skills
* Professional knowledge acquired through vocational master’s degree in pharmacy.
* Substantial post qualification band 6 and 7 hospital experience or equivalent documented experience in acute specialties.
* Experience in providing pharmacy service to high care areas, critical care, or theatres.
* Teaching experience.
* Experience in audit, research, and presentation.
* Experience in organisational change management.
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible, and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.
We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
For posts advertised on a fixed-term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed-term contracts will only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.
In applying for this post, you give the Trust permission to use your data for recruitment purposes.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should we receive sufficient applications or if it is filled via the internal redeployment process.
If you have problems applying, contact
Name: Emma Boxall
Job title: Critical Care/Theatres Pharmacist
Email address: Emma.boxall@nca.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 0161 206 1050
Additional information: Gill Crawshaw, Pharmacy PA
E-mail: Gillian.crawshaw@nca.nhs.uk
Tel: 0161 206 1050
Address: Turnpike House
Eccles New Road
Salford
M50 1SW
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