Job overview

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Are you ready to lead a service, promoting a high-quality, cost-effective, safe and comprehensive pharmacy service?

Then come join Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Teaching Hospitals as our Highly Specialist Pharmacist for Women’s Health.

This exciting opportunity is perfect for pharmacists wanting to further develop their leadership and operational skills, as well as honing your clinical knowledge within your speciality.

You’ll be stepping into a well-established role within the Women’s Health multidisciplinary team. You will be responsible for delivering services across our maternity and gynaecology units, and general women's health admissions. As well as supportive outpatient services and working with the assisted conception unit based at Wrightington.

The Women's Health Pharmacist will work closely with the Lead Pharmacist for Children’s Health and be supported by the Principal Pharmacist for Surgery to ensure safe and effective medicines management and optimisation, implementation of service improvements, cost improvement project management, and leadership of medicines governance aspects within the Women’s Health Service.

You will be required to present original certificates for qualifications at interview stage.

Main duties of the job

You will take part in consultant-led ward rounds, ensuring safe and optimal pharmaceutical care from admission to discharge. You will work directly with patients and carers to understand their needs, supporting adherence to medication regimens.

Our aim is to provide you with the skills you need to identify and reach your professional destination, whether this is as a manager, a clinical expert, or your own hybrid of both.

Away from the clinical arena, you will gain valuable managerial skills, producing and reviewing guidelines and PGDs, undertaking and presenting audits and helping to balance medicines expenditure.

You will also have the opportunity develop your skills as an educator, teaching and training other healthcare professionals from student level upwards.

This is a rapidly expanding area in the Trust, where – if you decide this is for you – the sky is the limit.

As part of the team in our busy District General Hospital, you will have the opportunity to maintain your skills in other clinical areas with occasional cover sessions and on-call, and will work closely with the Children's Health lead to ensure seamless service provision.

The post includes participation in the late duty, weekend, bank holiday and on-call (EDC) rotas.

Working for our organisation

Choose Well – Choose WWL

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.