Are you a confident, skilled Clinical Pharmacist looking to expand your career in a dynamic and challenging environment, while enjoying an excellent work-life balance?
We have an exciting opportunity for you to join our team at North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, providing essential pharmacy services to the Surgery Division.
This role offers the unique opportunity to work across two hospitals within the Trust,Peterborough City Hospital and Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Huntingdon,with easy access to excellent transport links. The ongoing redevelopment at Hinchingbrooke Hospital will introduce a cutting-edge elective surgery hub, offering the chance to be involved in pioneering techniques and innovative pathways.
This role provides endless opportunities for professional growth, including development in clinical, managerial, and leadership skills.
Key Requirements:
· Post-registration experience in hospital pharmacy practice
· A Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or an equivalent post-graduate qualification
· Excellent communication and organisational skills
· The ability to work across multiple sites
If you're passionate about making a real impact in healthcare and are keen to grow within your field, this is the perfect position for you.
For more information on the role or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Nick Carter, Principal Pharmacist Surgery Division, Email.
As a key member of our team, you will help develop and deliver clinical pharmacy services to Surgery wards, ensuring medicines are used safely, legally, and effectively. You will manage the planning and distribution of tasks to maintain high standards in medication processes.
During consultant and MDT ward rounds, you will provide key, evidence-based advice on medication use to support safe and effective patient care. You will also be responsible for creating, reviewing, and updating policies and guidelines related to medicine use in Surgery services.
In your role, you'll assist with pharmacy business planning and the implementation of electronic systems across the Trust and local care community, helping to provide cost-effective, patient-focused services.
As an experienced clinical pharmacist, you will lead training and education on medication issues within Surgery, supporting both the pharmacy team and the wider healthcare team. Additionally, you will provide expert clinical advice to senior pharmacy management, supporting service development and strategic planning for the department.
*Please Note the advert may close sooner than the date advertised due to levels of interest, closing of the advert will happen with no notice*
We are committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in our workforce and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, with a special focus on welcoming individuals from disabled, Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities, as well as those from our local area.
In line with our dedication to employee support, we offer a variety of benefits. For more information, please see the attached staff benefits leaflet.
We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where employees feel valued and empowered to excel in their roles. Join us and become part of a team dedicated to making a positive difference in our community.
• 1. To provide highly specialist advice on all aspects of medicine use, working cooperatively with the nominated Surgical Division CBU to deliver strategic objectives.
2. To advise the pharmacy senior management team of the impact of the strategic and service development plans of the surgical pharmacy services and plan collaborative initiatives to support the ambitions set out.
3. To interpret broad clinical/professional policies and NHS guidance especially in relation to clinical pharmacy service delivery in Surgery to ensure Trust excellence in partnership with the service leads.
4. To take professional responsibility for the provision of a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to Surgery services with regular reviews of medicine prescriptions and medicine reconciliation to ensure the accuracy, legality, safety and efficacy of medicine use through the appropriate planning and allocation of work.
5. To make a significant contribution to the delivery of divisional and departmental operational and strategic priorities and to the modernisation of pharmacy services across the Trust.
6. To provide Therapeutic Drug Monitoring services to the clinical team to ensure the safety of products with a narrow therapeutic index and advise on changes to medicine regimens according to results.
7. To utilise non-medical prescribing skills to actively support medicine optimisation practices within the Trust.
8. To develop effective medicine practices around pre-admission clinic reviews ensuring medicine issues are resolved in a timely and effective way to minimise the risk of theatre cancellations.
9. To be responsible for providing pharmacy support to the specialist Surgery services through attendance at their clinical meetings to ensure that their service goals can be effectively supported by medicine policy, procedure and practice.
10. To build on patient partnerships to ensure medications are taken as prescribed and to counsel patients, or their carers on the safe and proper use of medicines following transfer/discharge.
11. To identify and undertake medicine reviews and clinical audits within the CBU in line with the departmental audit plan reporting results to the relevant committees for action.
12. As a specialist pharmacist report surgical operational and strategic developments to the Principal Pharmacist – Surgery Division so that these may be presented at departmental meetings to gain agreement of pharmacy operational and transformational change programmes required to support service development.
13. To ensure implementation of Trust and national medicines policies and guidance (including NICE guidance and CCG/NHSE commissioning policies) across the CBU.
14. In accordance with the departmental rota ensure the accuracy, legality, efficacy and safety of prescribed medication by undertaking clinical assessment of prescriptions requiring dispensing taking responsibility for resolving prescribing errors or omissions with the responsible prescriber and providing final checks on dispensed items prior to release.
15. To ensure prescribing matches Trust and national guidelines using local and national analysis and benchmarking tools (REFINE / DEFINE).
16. To work cooperatively with the Chief Pharmacist to foster an environment that involves pharmacy staff engagement in decision making within the department and supports staff in delivering key departmental objectives.
17. To participate and report pharmacy clinical performance, governance and safety issues against local and national standards at the relevant departmental, CBU and divisional meetings. Account for any weaknesses in service provision, developing, implementing and reporting time limited action plans to address them.
18. To provide the pharmacy leadership for the managed introduction of new medicines within the CBU and assure clinical effectiveness in medicine budget management with the service leads.
19. To practice within the boundaries described within the latest version of the Medicines, Ethics and Practice issued by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
20. In collaboration with the Trust Chief Pharmacist, ensure all aspects of pharmacy services meet national and Trust standards including CQC, NHSI, RPS, MHRA and DH standards.
This advert closes on Thursday 10 Apr 2025
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