Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 23 months (fixed term / secondment)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 434-SCS6165179
- Employer
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stoke Mandeville Hospital
- Town
- Aylesbury
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Pharmacist - EPMA Trustwide
Band 8a
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 [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.
Job overview
This role is to act as the Lead Pharmacist for the development and implementation of EPMA across BHT. With a system already identified this role, along with Pharmacy Technician support will be working on the build, configuration and integrating EPMA into the working lives of healthcare staff across BHT.
Our EPMA development is a significant focus of the Trust and requires an experienced, dynamic individual to lead this, working within the department and throughout the Trust. This role will be ideal for someone with experience of EPMA implementation who wishes to expand their skills across a multisite Trust.
You will be working as part of a friendly, sociable and inclusive department, with full support for personal training and development.
Main duties of the job
- To act as the Lead Pharmacist in delivering the selected EPMA system, with consideration of the time, resource requirements and essential patient safety nature to be a successful project.
- To provide Pharmacist support and advice on pharmaceutical matters and those pertaining to medicines management. Medicines management encompasses the selection, procurement, dispensing, delivery, prescribing, administration and review of medicines.
- To oversee the use of electronic dispensing and prescribing systems as required in Pharmacy and through out the Trust when associated with medicines management
- To identify and support teams to deliver the changes in clinical and operational practice with implementation of EPMA.
- To work as a practising Pharmacist with understanding the requirements and scope of clinical pharmacy to deliver the EPMA role
- To support the work of other senior pharmacists as required
Working for our organisation
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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.
- We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
- We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
- We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
- As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
- Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
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.
- Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
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.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
Person specification
Education, Qualifications & Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Pharmacist: Member of GPhC
- Postgraduate Diploma in clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- RPS Faculty Stage II accreditation
- Relevant IT formal study or qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of hospital pharmacy at Post Registration Pharmacist level
- Significant experience of delivery of pharmacy services to a broad range of specialties
- Experience of delivery of clinical pharmacy service to a specialist level
- Evidence of significant relevant Continuing Professional Development
- Experience of project management
- Experience of conducting service audits and the use of performance indicators
- Experience of EPMA or Trustwide IT system development and roll out
Desirable criteria
- Experience of training other pharmacy staff
- Experience of managing staff
Skills, Abilities and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing staff
- Communicate, engage and provide effective leadership
- Clear and concise verbal and written communication
- Able to recognise limits of own competencies and to refer and seek advice
- Able to recognise and embrace new ideas and developments
- To have a positive attitude, be able to recognise and communicate need for change and be able to participate in change management processes.
- Work effectively within a range of different teams –at Departmental, Trust or regional level.
Desirable criteria
- Work effectively within a range of different teams –at Departmental, Trust or regional level.
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
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Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Samuel Bundu-Kamara
- Job title
- Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01296 316172
- Additional information
Alternately contact:
Duncan Cooke
Associate Director Of Pharmacy
01296 316383
For an informal discussion regarding the role
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