Specialist Education and Development Pharmacist and Clinical Lecturer

East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust; St Leonards; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in East Sussex seeks a Clinical Lecturer to develop teaching and clinical skills while supporting pharmacy education. The role involves providing clinical teaching, participating in placement strategy, and facilitating multi-disciplinary training. This position offers professional development opportunities including an Independent Prescribing Course. The Trust is committed to delivering high-quality healthcare services across its facilities.

Benefits

Opportunities for personal and professional development

Independent Prescribing Course

Responsibilities

• Support academic and work-placed learning.
• Provide clinical teaching at the bedside.
• Conduct OSCE assessments.
• Deliver lectures in line with expertise.
• Align placement activity to employer needs.
• Participate in continuing education activities.
• Facilitate multi-disciplinary training.
• Provide clinical pharmacy service with non-medical prescribing.

Job description

Overview

An exciting opportunity to develop your teaching, clinical and leadership skills whilst supporting pharmacists from the very start of their initial education and training journey. Working in an acute hospital as a clinical lecturer with the University of Brighton, you will deliver both experiential and academic learning to pharmacy undergraduates, including the progressive inclusion of prescribing practice during foundation training by 2025. You will contribute to the delivery of our strategic vision for education and development within the pharmacy department, gaining experience across several dimensions through inter-professional education within the trust and by working closely with multi-sector partner organisations within the Integrated Care System to develop the future pharmacist workforce. There will be opportunities for personal and professional development including the Independent Prescribing Course.

Responsibilities

• Support both academic and work-placed learning as advised by the University of Brighton, including:
• Clinical teaching at the bedside
• Clinical teaching in the recently refurbished simulation suite
• OSCE assessment
• Lectures in line with the individual's expertise
• Placement strategy group to ensure placement activity is aligned to employer need
• Participation in the department's continuing education activities, including supporting the provision of education programmes and clinical training for other staff members including pharmacists, trainee pharmacists and pharmacy undergraduates
• Facilitation of multi-disciplinary training with foundation doctors, nursing staff and AHPs
• Provision of a clinical pharmacy service including application of non-medical prescribing skills (if applicable)

Organisation and Context

We are one of the largest organisations in East Sussex with an annual income of £568 million and we are the only integrated provider of acute and community care in Sussex. Our mission is to deliver better health outcomes and an excellent experience for everyone we provide with healthcare services. Our strategic objectives focus on improving quality and clinical outcomes, local partnerships, and the efficient use of resources to ensure services are sustainable. Our aims are that all services are Safe, Effective, Caring, Responsive and Well led. Our organisations include two acute hospitals, three community hospitals, and over 100 community sites with staff across East Sussex.

Quality and Scope

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated us as Good overall, with Outstanding for Caring and Effective. Our Conquest Hospital in Hastings and Community Services were rated Outstanding; Eastbourne DGH rated Good. Our two acute hospitals provide 24/7 care with a full range of services. In 2020, the Trust launched its Building for our Future programme to repair, redevelop and expand our hospitals.