Job summary
Are you looking for a work-life balance where you won't have weekend, on-call or bank holiday working commitments but still do something rewarding and challenging? Are you proactive, flexible, agile in your work approach? If so, we're looking for you to join our well-respected medicines management team to lead on Children and Young People (C&YP) services across the Trust. This role is broad and includes covering some adult/specialist services, but its focus is on C&YP services
We use electronic patient records and electronic Medicines Administration Records (eMAR) within C&YP services and Electronic Prescribing & Medicines Administration (EPMA) within our adult Intermediate Care Units (training provided).
We're committed to ensure our pharmacists who wish to gain an independent prescribing qualification are given the opportunity to do so in a fair and equitable way.
Full time hours are 37.5 hours per week (general office hours) Flexible working arrangements may be discussed but will require you to work a minimum 22.5 hours per week over 3 days. Hybrid working from home and Trust locations is supported, and there aresplit roles within the Trust.
This role is based at Brighton General Hospital and involves a regular presence at Chailey Heritage Foundation and occasional travel to Crawley Hospital and other sites across Sussex.
Main duties of the job
You will work with other pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and assistants, as well as other members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of a high quality and effective medicines management service to our Children and Young People and specialist services. You will be involved in the development of pharmacy staff and C&YP service. You will support the medicines management team as needed with a clinical service to adult bedded units.
You will take the lead role within the Medicines Management Team, across the whole of Trust, for the particular areas of Children and Young People and Specialist services in accordance with experience, previous knowledge and personal development plan. This may include developing policy and service developments. You will require excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills, and a proactive "can do approach", together with good clinical skills and knowledge. The ability to travel within the Trust's foot-print is essential
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Medicines Management team is ambitious for its service and staff. We are supporting foundation pharmacist trainees and pre-registration pharmacy technicians. We have supported some of our pharmacists to gain a prescribing qualification or management qualifications.
The Medicines Management Team provides input into a range of medicines optimisation services including to Rheumatology, Children and Young People and Pro-active care, Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes, Virtual Wards and this supports developmental and learning as well as progression opportunities.
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Medicines Management team is ambitious for its service and staff. We are supporting foundation pharmacist trainees and pre-registration pharmacy technicians. We have supported some of our pharmacists to gain a prescribing qualification or management qualifications.
The Medicines Management Team provides input into a range of medicines optimisation services including to Rheumatology, Children and Young People and Pro-active care, Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes, Virtual Wards and this supports developmental and learning as well as progression opportunities.
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree MPharm
- Registered pharmacist (1 year competency assessed and examined) professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) UK.
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable
- MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
- Non-Medical Prescriber
- Practice or Educational Supervisor or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- At least 5 years relevant post-registration experience
- Providing clinical pharmacy services within an acute setting or similar setting with direct patient contact.
- Experience of writing policies, procedures and protocols
- Ability to demonstrate evidence of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience of implementing clinical governance and continuous improvement.
- Developing and delivering medicines management training to other healthcare professionals.
- Involved in identifying and assessing risk to improve patient safety
- Familiarity with the concepts of evidence based medicines.
- Expertise of addressing and resolving legal issues related to medicines.
- Addressing, implementing and monitoring compliance with NHS Improvement Patient Safety Alerts related to medicines
- Experience of working with Children and Young People as a clinical pharmacist.
Desirable
- Working with a community health services setting
- Experience of provision of medicines information and associated systems.
- Developing and undertaking clinical and non-clinical audits.
- Developing and writing patient group directions (PGDs)
- Managing or advising on drug budgets and drugs costs and how to monitor these
- Mentoring, managing or supervising pharmacy staff
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to assimilate, analyse and interpret complex data to assess risks and improve patient safety
- Ability to communicate effectively and develop effective working relationships at all levels
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Ability to challenge
- Ability to work under pressure and be able to make important decisions in pressured situations.
- Ability to prioritise and manage own work and deliver within identified timelines.
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to apply sound professional judgement to legal and ethical issues
- Effective influencing and negotiation skills and ability to persuade others
- The ability to research and analyse complex information, judging the input required to arrive at robust and accurate conclusions and using these conclusions to inform decision-making
- Computer skills including spreadsheets, presentations, electronic patient records or ECDL
- Self-motivated and able to initiate change.
- Methodological approach and attention to detail in terms of medicines.
- Ability to write reports, SOP and other documents
Desirable
- Ability to generate prescribing data using epact.net
Other Requirements
Essential
- Requirement to travel cost effectively across the area covered by Sussex Community NHS Trust
- Able to cope with interruptions when busy
Desirable
- Able to concentrate for extended periods
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree MPharm
- Registered pharmacist (1 year competency assessed and examined) professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) UK.
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable
- MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
- Non-Medical Prescriber
- Practice or Educational Supervisor or equivalent
Experience
Essential
- At least 5 years relevant post-registration experience
- Providing clinical pharmacy services within an acute setting or similar setting with direct patient contact.
- Experience of writing policies, procedures and protocols
- Ability to demonstrate evidence of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience of implementing clinical governance and continuous improvement.
- Developing and delivering medicines management training to other healthcare professionals.
- Involved in identifying and assessing risk to improve patient safety
- Familiarity with the concepts of evidence based medicines.
- Expertise of addressing and resolving legal issues related to medicines.
- Addressing, implementing and monitoring compliance with NHS Improvement Patient Safety Alerts related to medicines
- Experience of working with Children and Young People as a clinical pharmacist.
Desirable
- Working with a community health services setting
- Experience of provision of medicines information and associated systems.
- Developing and undertaking clinical and non-clinical audits.
- Developing and writing patient group directions (PGDs)
- Managing or advising on drug budgets and drugs costs and how to monitor these
- Mentoring, managing or supervising pharmacy staff
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to assimilate, analyse and interpret complex data to assess risks and improve patient safety
- Ability to communicate effectively and develop effective working relationships at all levels
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Ability to challenge
- Ability to work under pressure and be able to make important decisions in pressured situations.
- Ability to prioritise and manage own work and deliver within identified timelines.
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to apply sound professional judgement to legal and ethical issues
- Effective influencing and negotiation skills and ability to persuade others
- The ability to research and analyse complex information, judging the input required to arrive at robust and accurate conclusions and using these conclusions to inform decision-making
- Computer skills including spreadsheets, presentations, electronic patient records or ECDL
- Self-motivated and able to initiate change.
- Methodological approach and attention to detail in terms of medicines.
- Ability to write reports, SOP and other documents
Desirable
- Ability to generate prescribing data using epact.net
Other Requirements
Essential
- Requirement to travel cost effectively across the area covered by Sussex Community NHS Trust
- Able to cope with interruptions when busy
Desirable
- Able to concentrate for extended periods
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.
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 the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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 they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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 the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
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 they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
