Senior Pharmacist

Employer The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust

Employer type NHS

Site The Princess Alexandra Hospital

Town Harlow

Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum plus 5% high cost area supplement

Salary period Yearly

Closing 04/04/2025 23:59

NHS AfC: Band 7

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.

Our values

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) promise to our patients, as identified by our three values which will contribute to improving our patients’ experiences, is:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.

Job overview

The Pharmacy department is looking for a Specialist Support Pharmacist – Surgery and Critical Care to join the team. You should be enthusiastic, self-motivated and have extensive hospital-based pharmaceutical experience.

This is a newly created post specialist post. The post holder will lead the elective surgical pharmacy team, and support the wider MDT in the provision of pharmacy services, help in the creation and embedding of a ward-led Level 1 service and support in the development of surgical guidelines.

In addition, the post holder will be an integrated member of the Nutrition MDT and support in the provision of PN services, as well as the opportunity to develop and upskill to support the Critical Care Lead Pharmacist in our Adult Critical Care Unit.

You will use your medicines optimisation knowledge and skills to enhance the patient experience and improve flow across the Trust. In return we can offer support to develop your career and we actively encourage all of our Senior Pharmacists to undertake the Non-Medical Prescribing course.

Main duties of the job

1. Work closely with the Lead Surgical Pharmacy Technician to deliver a patient focused clinical pharmacy service to patients within the elective Surgical Wards.
2. Develop and evaluate clinical services to the adult elective surgical wards at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust and implement areas for improvement to support patient flow and patient experience.
3. Support the provision of a clinical pharmacy service to the Trust Adult Critical Care Unit in the absence of the Critical Care Pharmacist.
4. Provide a clinical pharmacy service and support medical optimisation to Level 1 patients based on the Unit.
5. Contribute to the timely discharge of patients being discharged from the surgical wards by ensuring TTAs are prepared prior to discharge.
6. Improve patient experience by providing patient counselling and education of medications prior to discharge.
7. Work as part of the multidisciplinary team to support medical and nursing staff, as well as allied healthcare professionals.
8. Creation and implementation of surgical guidelines as necessary.
9. Monitor and evaluate the pharmacy services provided in accordance with the set objectives to ensure that they are of a high quality and that departmental standards are met.
10. Participate in audits and service reviews in accordance with the set objectives agreed with the Lead Pharmacist for Critical Care.

Working for our organisation

Our Organisation

The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow.

We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in West Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop’s Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.

Our Values

The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients is identified by our 3 values, which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:

Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.

Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.

Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.

The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further details, please refer to the attached job description and person specification which is available to download at any time.

Person specification

Experience

• Extensive hospital-based experience

Qualifications

• Registered with GPhC
• Clinical Diploma in General Pharmacy practice or relevant experience
• NMP qualification or working towards this

What we can offer you:

• Full induction and onboarding process in our organisation
• Free car parking for our staff
• Structured pay scheme, including additional living supplement to your basic salary
• Minimum 27 days’ annual leave plus bank holidays (pro rata for part time staff)
• Access to our Alex Lounge, our staff only rest area with free tea and coffee
• Access to NHS Pension scheme
• Flexible working options available, in line with our flexible working policy
• Onsite creche facilities
• Annual appraisals with career pathways
• In-house training courses
• Discounted hospital restaurant
• Staff health and wellbeing health services and complimentary health provision
• Our Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all its employees. We welcome applications from anyone who meets the specific criteria of the post regardless of age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender reassignment, marital status, pregnancy, religion or belief or sexual orientation. Reasonable adjustments to the interview process can also be made for any candidates with a disability.
• All new colleagues joining PAHT will be subject to a probationary period of six months.
• The closing date given is a guide only. There may be some occasions where we have to close a vacancy once sufficient applications have been received. It is therefore advisable that you submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
• Our Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, and vulnerable adults. Offers of employment are subject to pre-employment NHS screening checks.
• Providing false or misleading information or unsatisfactory pre-employment checks may result in the offer of a post being withdrawn.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.