Job summary
- Main area
- Corporate Services
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 380-SS0661
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Priority House
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Pharmacist- Antimicrobials
Band 8a
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated and committed pharmacist to help improve antimicrobial stewardship practice across the Trust.
Working as part of not only the pharmacy team but with the Trust’s Infection Prevention and Control team, you will be integral in helping the Trust reduce the rise in antimicrobial resistance, support the proper and appropriate use of antimicrobials and improving the culture around the treatment and management of infections across the Trust.
This is an exciting role that will also allow the post holder to network and represent the Trust in relation to the management of antimicrobials across the Integrated Care System.
The post holder will require a postgraduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent specialist knowledge, acquired through a broad spectrum of clinical pharmacy training and experience, and will be a part of a pharmacist On-Call service.
Main duties of the job
- You will be working closely with the Infection Prevention and Control and Physical Health Matron to identify service gaps and areas for improvement in relation to antimicrobial stewardship.
- You will be responsible for the governance and management of the use of antimicrobials across the Trust.
- You will also be involved in working with the other lead pharmacists in undertaking and developing audits and projects related to the use of antimicrobials to evaluate and improve their use alongside pharmacy and Trust priorities and objectives.
The post holder must hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car/vehicle to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Takes a lead role in managing antimicrobial stewardship across the Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust.
- Works closely with the Infection Prevention and Control team to promote prudent use of antimicrobial agents in line with Trust Antimicrobial Stewardship Policy.
- Be responsible for policy implementation and staff development including training in relation to Antimicrobial Stewardship and other medicines management topics in the Trust.
- Be an active member of the Integrated Care Board (ICB) Antimicrobial Medicines Optimisation Group Meetings to promote the safe, effective and economic use of medicines throughout the Trust and the wider system.
- Plans and co-ordinates projects and audits to review medicines use (particularly antibiotics) and prescribing polices in the Trust.
Please see the job description for more details
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Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Master’s Degree in Pharmacy
- Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council, with at least 3 year’s post graduate experience
- Postgraduate qualification in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent specialist knowledge, acquired through a broad spectrum of clinical pharmacy training and experience
- Leadership qualification
Desirable criteria
- Member of the College of Mental Health Pharmacy
- Practice Supervisor Qualification
- Postgraduate qualification in Psychopharmacology
- Non- Medical Prescribing qualification or working towards this qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- 3 years clinical experience within hospital pharmacy services.
- Knowledge of the therapeutics of common disease states and developments in antimicrobial usage.
- Specialist clinical knowledge of anti-infective preparations.
- Through knowledge of national drivers in areas of antimicrobial prescribing and stewardship.
- Knowledge and understanding of implications of Clinical Governance.
- Ability to work collaboratively in multidisciplinary settings
- Record of achieving results against set targets.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of providing antimicrobial related advice .
- Experience in delivering training.
- Experience of budget setting and management of drugs budgets.
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- High level of analytical skills and problem solving ability, to ensure that the post holder is able to provide advice on complex issues relating to medicine management and Trust policies.
- Knowledge and experience of Primary and Secondary Care working
- Confident and assertive when dealing with other professionals
- High level of Interpersonal skills, to ensure that the post holder is able to effectively exchange highly complex and sensitive information with patients and relatives, prescribers and senior managers
- IT skills - word-processing, PowerPoint, Excel, statistical package and internet use, so that the post holder can communicate effectively with other Health care professionals and for training purposes.
- Able to devise, plan and manage a complex work programme
- Up to date knowledge of prescribing issues in Mental Health
- Relevant knowledge of pharmaceutical standards of practice
Desirable criteria
- Good project management skills
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
- Jagdip Bahiia
- Job title
- Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07796197394
- Additional information
Von-de-Viel Nettey, Deputy Chief Pharmacist on 07880130752
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