Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Surgical Services

NHS; Gillingham; On-site; GBP 62,000 - 73,000

Job description

Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Surgical Services

Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services

Care Group: Diagnostics and Therapies

Band: 8b

We are recruiting for a Lead Clinical Pharmacist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

The lead pharmacist will provide highly specialist and advanced clinical and professional pharmaceutical services to surgical services patients under the care of Medway Maritime Hospital NHS Foundation Trust to promote the optimised, safe and cost-effective use of medicines.

You will be a core member of the Trust's pharmacy department, providing professional pharmaceutical governance, medicines safety, medicines information, medicines finance, education and training and medicines optimisation support to the team.

You will build relationships and work with internal stakeholders and external partners to support the delivery of high quality pharmaceutical care to patients.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

About us

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients.

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy - Patient First. Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.

Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:

B - Bold

E - Every person counts

S - Sharing and open

T - Together

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.

Job responsibilities

Lead the provision of specialist clinical pharmaceutical services to the staff (medical, nursing, allied health professionals and managers) and patients of the surgical ward service in order to achieve high quality, safe, cost effective and evidence-based prescribing and use of medicines and ensure a safe transition of care across settings.

Provide pharmaceutical professional support, legal and ethical guidance and advice to all clinical and non-clinical staff within the service to raise and maintain standards of practice that meet or exceed current standards.

Attend, and contribute to, regular multidisciplinary team meetings (face to face or virtual clinics) where patients are reviewed.

Prescribe medication for individual patients within the agreed scope of practice and competence, and according to Medway NHS Foundation Trust policies and procedures. Although independent prescribing is a desired qualification, candidates without this qualification will be considered.

Liaise and work in partnership with external health professionals and stakeholders across the integrated care system (ICS) in the management of virtual ward patients (e.g. GPs, community and primary care network pharmacists, social care providers).

Develop and deliver training and education to ensure staff are delivering high quality and evidence-based care when using medicines.

Develop and maintain policies and standard operating procedures for the service that are evidence-based and comply with legal and current guidance thus providing tools to maintain the safe and secure handling of medicines.

Lead on the governance of medicines for the service including the audit of policies and the management of medicines incidents in order to maintain and continually improve standards of patient care.

Manage the collection of data to respond to pharmacy/medicine Key Performance Indicators relating to surgical services and write regular reports as part of a program of audit/service evaluation.

Support the transfer of care of patients discharged from the surgical services, ensuring a high standard of information provision concerning medicines to relevant professionals and organisations and onward referral to appropriate services to support patients to live independently and manage their medicines.

Facilitate and undertake research to inform practice developments and underpin delivery of an effective, evidence-based pharmacy service.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent
• Higher degree/Diploma in clinical pharmacy
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).

Knowledge

• Knowledge of and ability to apply all aspects of regulatory legislation and guidelines
• Specialist clinical knowledge and skills relevant to the area of practice, or demonstration of an ability to develop a highly specialist knowledge in a therapeutic area
• Expert clinical knowledge and skills relevant to area of practice, or demonstrated ability to do so

Experience

• Previous relevant specialist clinical experience
• Experience of working with senior healthcare professions outside of pharmacy at a senior level
• Experience of monitoring drug use and expenditure

Skills

• Advanced IT skills - including word, excel, email and PowerPoint
• Able to solve difficult and ambiguous problems by advanced reasoning and sound technical judgment
• Demonstrable empowering and collaborative leadership skills

Values Based Question

• Give an example of a time when you have gone the extra mile to help someone

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.

£62,215 to £72,293 a year per annum/pro rata