Job overview

Please note this post is open to B7 applicants if the qualifications/competencies described in the Person Specification have not yet been achieved

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Pharmacist with an interest in the Womens' and Childrens' Directorate. The post involves leading the provision of medicines optimization to our Womens' and Childrens' teams in a varied and dynamic division.

The successful candidate will work closely with the ward based teams implementing the principles of the modern day ward round, using skills, knowledge and experience to directly impact on patient care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• Lead and support the pharmacy Service provided to the Women & Children’s Directorate, which includes children’s ward, children’s outpatients, Special Care Baby Unit, Community Children’s Nursing, School Nursing & Health Visitors, and Obstetrics & Gynaecology inpatients and outpatients.
• Work closely with the consultants in the Directorate, the lead and specialist nurses and midwives, and other staff members associated with the pharmacy service to the Women & Children’s Directorate.
• To be a proactive member of the Network Neonatal and Women’s Health Pharmacists Group contributing to developments to improve healthcare outcomes.
• Be responsible for coordinating specialist pharmacy clinical services to the Directorate, oversee and investigate medicines related safety incidents in the Directorate, monitor financial and clinical governance in the Directorate.
• Lead on evidence-based prescribing advice to ensure effective, appropriate, sustainable, cost-effective and safe use of medicines and promote patient-centred care for all patients.
• Lead and support the review or development of guidelines for the prescribing, administration and storage of medicines to facilitate good practice in the Directorate, working closely with regional trusts.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.