Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Education and Training

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS trust in the United Kingdom is seeking an enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist to join their team at Ipswich Hospital. The role involves leading education and training activities for pharmacy staff, mentoring junior pharmacists, and providing advanced clinical pharmacy services at ward level. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in clinical pharmacy, a commitment to patient care, and the ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams. The position offers a range of professional development opportunities and competitive benefits.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

NHS discounts

Health and Wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Experienced Clinical Pharmacist with leadership skills in education and training.
• Ability to develop and maintain education schemes for pharmacy staff.
• Experience in providing clinical pharmacy services at ward level.

Responsibilities

• Lead on all education and training activities within the Pharmacy department.
• Develop training schemes for pharmacists and clinical pharmacy technicians.
• Mentor junior pharmacists and students during their education.
• Work with teams to optimize the use of medicines at ward level.
• Provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service aligned with performance indicators.

Skills

Education and training delivery

Mentoring and coaching

Collaboration with multidisciplinary teams

Clinical pharmacy service

Education

Pharmacist qualification

Job description

Are you an experienced Clinical Pharmacist looking for a career change or your next challenge in an acute hospital trust?

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our modern purpose-built facilities to help the department deliver on its proactive Education and Training agenda.

You will be based at Ipswich Hospital, separating time to provide clinical pharmacy activity at ward level and all required Education and Training aspects of the job description. Cross-site collaboration with Colchester pharmacy colleagues is essential to ensure consistency of practice and a uniform approach to the development of our staff.

Our friendly pharmacy team are dedicated to nurturing, mentoring and developing our staff to reach their full potential. As well as direct one-to-one training, the department provides pharmacy forums, clinical huddles and other educational activity. We support personal development plans, smart objective setting and opportunities for study.

ESNEFT has just undertaken a full Trust wide implementation of the Epic electronic patient record which includes electronic prescribing and administration and pharmacy stock control system replacement.

In addition to our fully automated dispensaries, we host one of the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service medicines advice sites and the Regional Pharmacy Manufacturing Unit (including a brand new Aseptic facility).

Details about our pharmacy service - https://esneft.pagetiger.com/buqzfou/1

Main duties of the job

• Lead on all education and training activities on the Ipswich site and any other relevant cross-site education and training activities within the Pharmacy department at ESNEFT.
• Develop, deliver and maintain locally-based education and training schemes for all grades of pharmacist and clinical pharmacy technician staff.
• Take the lead on the ongoing mentoring and coaching of junior pharmacists and student pharmacists throughout their Clinical Diploma and Foundation Trainee studies.
• Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure the optimal and cost effective use of medicines at ward level; minimising drug wastage accordingly.
• Provide an advanced level clinical pharmacy service at ward level in line with the pharmacy Key Performance Indicators and agreed clinical standards.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A