Lead Pharmacist – Medicine

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust; Bury St Edmunds; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom is seeking a Lead Pharmacist – Medicine on a 6-month fixed term to cover maternity leave, offering you the chance to shape clinical pharmacy services across medical wards and provide leadership.

Reporting to the Principal Pharmacist for Clinical Services, the post holder will lead a team, drive safe, cost-effective medicines use, and support service development in line with national standards.

Qualifications

• Lead a skilled team delivering clinical pharmacy services to medicine wards.
• Contribute to department objectives and service development.
• Provide highly specialised pharmaceutical care and governance involvement.
• Deliver training and clinical supervision to junior pharmacists and trainees.

Responsibilities

• Lead a skilled and dedicated team delivering clinical pharmacy services to the medicine wards, ensuring excellence and consistency in patient care.
• Contribute to the delivery of the department’s strategic objectives, supporting innovation and service development during this key period.
• Provide highly specialised advice within your clinical area to other pharmacists and healthcare professionals, including participation in governance meetings.
• Deliver training to pharmacists and foundation pharmacist trainees within their area of clinical specialism and undertake supervision and assessments.

Job description

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We are looking for a Lead Pharmacist – Medicine to provide leadership and strategic direction to our clinical pharmacy service within the medical directorate. This is a 6-month fixed term position to cover maternity leave, offering you the chance to make a real impact within an ambitious and supportive team.

Working closely with and reporting to the Principal Pharmacist for Clinical Services, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and developing high-quality clinical pharmacy services across the Trust’s medical wards.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leadership: Take charge of a skilled and dedicated team delivering clinical pharmacy services to the medicine wards, ensuring excellence and consistency in patient care.
• Strategic Impact: Contribute to the delivery of the department’s strategic objectives, supporting innovation and service development during this key period.
• Patient-Centred Care: Ensure services remain safe, efficient, and effective, with a strong focus on optimising outcomes for patients.
• Collaboration and Influence: Build strong working relationships with multidisciplinary teams both within and outside the organisation to influence and drive improvements across the Trust.
• The post-holder will be Lead Pharmacist for Medicine and must develop the specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients within the associated area in line with local and national standards and policies, ensuring the safe, clinical and cost-effective use of medicines and staff resources.
• The post-holder will provide a highly specialised level of pharmaceutical care to patients and will support other healthcare staff in meeting risk management, financial management and clinical governance responsibilities around the use of medicines.
• The post-holder will provide highly specialised advice within their area of clinical specialism to other pharmacists and healthcare professionals, including participation in multidisciplinary and governance meetings.
• The post-holder will deliver training to pharmacists and foundation pharmacist trainees within their area of clinical specialism and must undertake clinical supervision, mentoring and assessments of junior pharmacists, medicines management technicians and pre-registration pharmacists.

The post-holder will carry out clinical pharmacy audit and practice research in conjunction with the Principal Pharmacist for Clinical Services.

Why Join Us?

This is a fantastic opportunity to lead and shape a respected service while gaining valuable leadership experience within a supportive, innovative environment.

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We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.

The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.

Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.

We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Alexis Marcos Job title: Principal Pharmacist Clinical Services Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01284 712929