Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Flexible working requests would be considered)
- Job ref
- 251-FCSS2688-PHAR
- Employer
- Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospitals
- Town
- Basingstoke
- Salary
- £55,690 - £62,682 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Pharmacist for Unscheduled Care
Band 8a
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to develop your leadership and medicines optimisation skills as the Lead Pharmacist for the Unscheduled Care.
As an experienced and competent clinical pharmacist, you will lead the Clinical Pharmacy service and provide assurance to the Emergency Department and Admissions Units at Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital.
If you are passionate, flexible and enjoy a varied challenge in your role, we want to hear from you.
- You will be supported by the Senior and Clinical Pharmacy Teams
- You will be encouraged to utilise prescribing skills to support timely, effective and safe patient care at admission
- As the Lead Pharmacist, you will support the Business Unit though monthly reports, governance management, audit and improvement projects
What we look for:
- An accomplished communicator and highly motivated team player with good problem solving skills
- A capable clinical pharmacist committed to providing the highest quality care for patients
- An innovative leader committed to service improvement
What we offer:
- Supportive and friendly teams, both within Pharmacy and the Trust
- Opportunities for training and development, both personal and professional, including extended practice
- Collaborative working within and outside of the Trust
Your life outside HHFT is important and the Trust are happy to consider applications with flexible working patterns that cater to individual requirements; this can be discussed at interview
Main duties of the job
- Advanced Lead Clinical Pharmacist - working as a non-medical prescriber in the speciality. Role includes teaching, training, audit and research.
- Day to day clinical management of the patients with regard to medicines optimisation, monitoring key quality/performance indicators and recommending/implementing actions to address them. Ensuring necessary/appropriate medications are available for assessment and treatment needs of the speciality. Reporting on workforce requirements for meeting service demand.
- To lead, develop, deliver and evaluate the clinical pharmacy service to ED and acute medical units.
- To participate in a departmental working group to scope, plan and implement an electronic Prescribing and Administration System within the ED.
- To ensure the effective line management and development of staff, including ensuring that staff members have an annual appraisal and development review.
- Support the ED and acute medical units, liaising with the multidisciplinary team and lead clinician as well as the pharmacy team.
- Support the Business Unit through regular monthly reports and face to face interaction.
- Pharmacist will regularly attend and represent the ED at MERG, attend monthly departmental governance meetings and weekly senior team meetings.
Working for our organisation
HHFT is committed to providing patients, visitors and staff with a high quality and safe environment. HHFT provides medical and surgical services to people living in Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
HHFT provides one service from multiple locations including our own hospitals which provide a full range of planned and emergency services including accident and emergency, general and specialist surgery, general medicine, intensive care, rehabilitation, chemotherapy, diagnostic services, maternity, neonatal, gynaecology, paediatric care and outpatient clinics.
We are committed to training and developing our staff and are willing to consider flexible working arrangements.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced communication skills
- Ability to present a high level of personal credibility
- Able to disseminate and present complex information in writing
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional Registration with GPhC
- Postgraduate Diploma in clinical pharmacy
Desirable criteria
- Independent prescribing qualification
- Educational Supervisor training
- Leadership/management training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working within hospital pharmacy
- NHS Management experience
- Experience of team working
Desirable criteria
- Experience of project leadership/quality improvement
- Experience of delivering postgraduate education and training
- Experience of working in unscheduled care
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Taryn Keyser
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01256 313339
- Additional information
Josh McKie
Clinical Pharmacy Manager
01256 313338
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