About this role
Job summary
Lead Pharmacist 8A - Older People's Medicine
Full-time | Permanent
Are you an experienced and forward-thinking pharmacist looking for your next leadership opportunity in a specialist clinical role? Frimley Health is seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and highly skilled pharmacist to join our dynamic Older People's Medicine team as aBand 8A Lead Pharmacist.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred pharmaceutical care within Older People's Medicine, while providing expert clinical leadership across the Trust.
Based at Wexham Park Hospital, this post also carries cross-site responsibilities, offering the chance to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and influence service delivery on a wider scale.
To be successful in this role, you should have:
A Postgraduate Clinical Diploma (or equivalent). Independent Prescribing qualification. Significant post-registration clinical pharmacy experience. A commitment to continuing professional development and advancing practice within Older People's Medicine. The ability to provide expert advice, lead service improvement, and support the development of pharmacy practice within the speciality.
Main duties of the job
To develop the clinical pharmacy service to patients within the specialist area. To provide clinical pharmacy services to patients within the specialist areas. To act as a role model in the field of clinical pharmacy practice and provide a consistently high standard of clinical service in line with the pharmacy objectives. To support the recruitment, management and development of staff under the postholder. To work closely with the senior pharmacists, clinicians, nursing staff and other senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to patients within the directorate. To ensure close relations cross-site with the Older People's Medicine team at Frimley Park Hospital. To attend ward rounds / clinics when appropriate and able. Provide a clinical pharmacy service to specialised areas and a clinical pharmacy service to cover other areas when ward cover is needed.
About us
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme.
We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Job description Job responsibilities
For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Pharmacy degree (Masters level 4 years) Registered with GPhC Postgraduate clinical diploma or equivalent Independent Prescriber (or intention to become one) Evidence of Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
Desirable
MSc or higher degree UKCPA membership RPS membership Formal management qualification
Experience Essential
Experience of producing guidelines Experience of producing drug appraisals Experience of managing staff Significant post-qualification experience working as a pharmacist in a clinical environment.
Desirable
Regular experience of providing clinical pharmacy support Clinical audit experience. Teaching/tutoring experience
Skills and knowledge Essential
Excellent communication skills Applied clinical knowledge Ability to adapt and cope with challenges Organisational skills
Desirable
Excellent IT skills Evidence of interest in research
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address Wexham Park Hospital
Wexham St
Slough
SL2 4HL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)