About this role
Job summary
Sherwood Forest Hospitalsare seeking an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist to lead and shape our new Emergency Department pharmacy service. There is opportunity to develop advanced practice and enhance leadership skills and knowledge with an emphasis on innovation. You will be supported to identify and enhance services alongside the multidisciplinary team who are enthusiastic to work collaboratively to deliver optimal pharmaceutical care to our patients.
This role focuses on the leadership of the new service in ensuring patients have
Key Responsibilities:
Ensuring patients in the Emergency Department receive critical medicines within the time frames required Ensuring medicines management processes are monitored and updated in line with local, regional and national standards Support the Emergency medicine MDT in efficient ways of working to maximise individuals skill-set Monitor and identify cost effective medicine initiatives in the Emergency Department Support the clinical pharmacy service in delivering against locally agreed KPIs
Join us and be part of a collaborative team dedicated to delivering optimal pharmaceutical care to our patients. This is your chance to make a significant impact within a forward-thinking healthcare setting.
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
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Job description Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
BSc, BPharm or MPharm in Pharmacy Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) Diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy gained through post-graduate study including the CPPE Primary care pharmacy education pathway Independent prescribing
Desirable
Post-graduate studies relevant to clinical pharmacy Qualification in leadership and/or management.
Knowledge Essential
Clinical Pharmacy knowledge associated with a 4 year Pharmacy degree course. Experience gained through successful completion of pre-registration training. Significant hospital pharmacy experience gained through vocational practice. Awareness of NHS priorities in clinical area (Emergency Medicine)
Desirable
Experience of specialist work within Emergency Medicine Evidence-based practice.
Experience Essential
Experience of extended clinical pharmacy roles Experience of staff management. Experience of medicine evaluation and expenditure reporting Experience of audit and quality improvement Experience of change management. Problem solving ability Excellent communication skills in all forms Proven ability to negotiate and influence at all levels Proactive and innovative Good organisational/time management skills
Desirable
Delivering defined projects against deadlines Teaching experience. Practice research.
Further Training Essential
Training in of medicine usage evaluation and/or financial reporting or demonstratable equivalent experience Audit and/or quality improvement training or demonstratable equivalent experience
Desirable
Leadership development training
Other Essential
Flexibility in working hours. Able to work extended hours including evening cover and weekends
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Employer details Employer name Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address King's Mill Hospital
Mansfield Road
Sutton-In-Ashfield
NG17 4JL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)