Job overview

Advanced Specialist Pharmacist – Elective  Orthopaedic Surgery 

Band 8a

An exciting opportunity has become available to join the Clinical Pharmacy team at the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM) to lead the service to UHNM’s Elective Orthopaedic Speciality and further develop the peri-operative optimisation of medicines for these patients, including undertaking pre-admission clinics. 

To be considered you will be an experienced clinical pharmacist able to demonstrate an ability to deliver high-quality care for patients.

Working closely with clinicians, nursing staff, and the directorate management team, you will lead the clinical pharmacy service to the Elective Orthopaedic speciality.

You will be expected to provide a high-quality clinical service and provide clinical, financial, and risk management support. 

Main duties of the job

Work across our Royal Stoke and County Hospital sites to deliver a high-quality focussed clinical pharmacy service to the Elective Orthopaedic speciality. This will include proactive engagement with clinicians and the wider MDT; delivery of medicines optimisation, governance and safety initiatives; supporting patient flow for inpatient ward area. A key focus of this role will be to ensure that patients are optimised with respect to medicines prior to their procedure and new pathways and guidelines are developed to support and optimise medicines use within the speciality.

This role, as with all our Advanced Pharmacist posts, has the responsibility of supervising diploma students and managing junior staff.

You will also be expected to  contribute to the strategic development of the clinical pharmacy service. 

It is a friendly, enthusiastic, and committed team at UHNM and you would be joining us at an exciting time.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. 

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.