Lead Specialist Pharmacist – Elective Surgery

NHS; Guildford; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist to cover a maternity leave in the Surgical Pharmacy team. You will play a crucial role in providing comprehensive clinical services for Elective Surgical patients, ensuring safe and effective pharmaceutical care. The ideal candidate will have extensive clinical pharmacy knowledge and excellent communication skills, with a commitment to professional development. Participation in late nights and weekends is required. Join a supportive team focused on quality patient care and career advancement at this esteemed organization.

Benefits

Further education support

Health and wellbeing program

Qualifications

• Experience as a specialist practitioner in hospital clinical pharmacy.
• Registered Pharmacist with competency assessment and examination completed.
• Demonstrable experience training and educating post-graduate students.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical pharmacy services for Elective Surgical patients.
• Attend ward rounds, act as a non-medical prescriber.
• Train pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy knowledge

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Clinical reasoning

Education

Masters degree in pharmacy

Post-graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Job description

Job Summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist with drive and enthusiasm to join our Surgical Pharmacy team to provide 12 Month's Maternity cover for the Lead Specialist Pharmacist for Elective Surgery.

The post holder will work closely with the Principal Pharmacist for Surgery and be embedded in the multidisciplinary team whilst being responsible for providing comprehensive clinical pharmacy services as well as being at the forefront of service development.

We are looking for an experienced pharmacist with extensive clinical pharmacy knowledge and excellent communication skills. You will need to have the ability to work within a multidisciplinary team, driving change in practice and have a keen interest to actively participate in the training and development of others.

The department is supportive of further education, including leadership and prescribing qualifications if not already held, and you should be keen to continue your professional development.

To support you in your role, we provide an environment where we learn, improve and celebrate our work as one team focusing on providing the very best care.

Successful applicants will be required to participate in late night, weekend working and public holiday work.

For further information, please contact Ali Pilkington, Principal Pharmacist - Surgical division [e-mail] Telephone [phone] Bleep 71-0991

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for leading, providing and developing the clinical pharmacy service for the Elective Surgical patients within the surgical division. Ensuring the safe, cost effective and patient focused pharmaceutical care of patients

To provide a framework for the safe, effective and economic use of medicine resources within the specialist clinical area utilising sound medicines management and clinical governance principles

To deputise for the Principal Pharmacist for Surgical Division when required

To be an integral part of the Pre-operative assessment surgical MDT team and attend and contribute to ward rounds.

To supervise and train pharmacists / pharmacy technicians whilst on rotation, and other healthcare professionals working within the specialty.

About us

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

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Job responsibilities

Act as a subject matter expert on Elective Surgical patients for the pharmacy department and the wider clinical workforce.

Provide clinical pharmacy services to Elective patients throughout their secondary and tertiary care. Ensuring optimal pharmaceutical care and facilitate the safe effective supply and prescribing of medicines.

Attend Consultant led ward rounds and where appropriate be able to act as an independent non-medical prescriber. Build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the wider MDT team as required.

Identify potential clinical developments to the surgical Triumvirate management team and plan the implantation to ensure that services continue to meet customers requirement and income is sufficient to fund development.

Implement local and national pharmaceutical care guidelines for the Elective Surgical service in collaboration with clinical colleagues, ensuring that guidelines are available and up dated, and that the wider workforce is kept abreast of new practice or any changes to existing practices.

Act as a governance lead on medication issues relating to Elective surgery through attendance at divisional governance meetings and be responsible for actions of issues arising. Undertakes risk assessment and manages these risks as required.

Communicate highly complex pharmaceutical information to health professionals, patients and / or carers, adapted to their level of understanding to ensure safe, effective administration of treatment and promote understanding and compliance.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent and 1 year pre-registration training.
• Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (Great Britain) as attained following successful completion of 1 year competency assessment and examination.
• Post-graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent.

Desirable

• MSc in clinical pharmacy.
• Registered independent non-medical prescriber.

Knowledge

Essential

• Professional knowledge acquired through vocational master's degree in pharmacy (4 years) or equivalent.
• Advanced level core therapeutic knowledge and clinical skills as gained through Post-graduate clinical diploma (or equivalent)
• Demonstrates high level of clinical knowledge, clinical reasoning and judgement; manages difficult and ambiguous problems.
• Understanding of background to and aims of national and local healthcare policy/guidance and appreciate the implications of this on engagement and priorities.
• Specialist clinical knowledge and skills relevant to the area of practice as developed through experience and CPD including conferences, courses etc.
• Demonstrable experience as a specialist practitioner in hospital clinical pharmacy.
• Experience as an advanced level clinical pharmacist practitioner, able to demonstrate a high level of competency e.g. equivalent to achieving Excellence in the majority of competencies in all clusters within the Advanced Level Competency Framework, except Management and R&D, which should be at Foundation level (as a minimum).
• Previous specialist clinical pharmacy experience in surgery care.
• Variety of clinical practice including medicine and surgery as a specialist.
• Evidence of working effectively within multidisciplinary groups.
• Previous experience of delivering training and education at post-graduate level.
• Evidence of activity in clinical audit or drug use review to improve practice.
• Current developments in pharmacy.
• Changes occurring in the NHS.

Desirable

• Delivery of a parenteral nutrition service.
• Experience in Hospital pharmacy at management/directorate level.
• Experience of supervision or line managing others.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country ...

UK Registration
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Employer details

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Surrey Foundation Trust

Egerton Road

Guildford

GU2 7XX

Employer's website

https://www.royalsurrey.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)