Lead Pharmacist for Unscheduled Care

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity to develop your leadership and medicines optimisation skills as the Lead Pharmacist for the Unscheduled Care.

As an experienced and competent clinical pharmacist, you will lead the Clinical Pharmacy service and provide assurance to the Emergency Department and Admissions Units at Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital.

If you are passionate, flexible and enjoy a varied challenge in your role, we want to hear from you.

• You will be supported by the Senior and Clinical Pharmacy Teams
• You will be encouraged to utilise prescribing skills to support timely, effective and safe patient care at admission
• As the Lead Pharmacist, you will support the Business Unit though monthly reports, governance management, audit and improvement projects

What we look for:

• An accomplished communicator and highly motivated team player with good problem solving skills
• A capable clinical pharmacist committed to providing the highest quality care for patients
• An innovative leader committed to service improvement

What we offer:

• Supportive and friendly teams, both within Pharmacy and the Trust
• Opportunities for training and development, both personal and professional, including extended practice
• Collaborative working within and outside of the Trust

Your life outside HHFT is important and the Trust are happy to consider applications with flexible working patterns that cater to individual requirements; this can be discussed at interview

Main duties of the job

• Advanced Lead Clinical Pharmacist - working as a non-medical prescriber in the speciality. Role includes teaching, training, audit and research.
• Day to day clinical management of the patients with regard to medicines optimisation, monitoring key quality/performance indicators and recommending/implementing actions to address them. Ensuring necessary/appropriate medications are available for assessment and treatment needs of the speciality. Reporting on workforce requirements for meeting service demand.
• To lead, develop, deliver and evaluate the clinical pharmacy service to ED and acute medical units.
• To participate in a departmental working group to scope, plan and implement an electronicPrescribing and Administration System within the ED.
• To ensure the effective line management and development of staff, including ensuring that staff members have an annual appraisal and development review.
• Support the ED and acute medical units, liaising with the multidisciplinary team and lead clinician as well as the pharmacy team.
• Support the Business Unit through regular monthly reports and face to face interaction.
• Pharmacist will regularly attend and represent the ED at MERG, attend monthly departmental governance meetings and weekly senior team meetings.

About us

HHFT is committed to providing patients, visitors and staff with a high quality and safe environment. HHFT provides medical and surgical services to people living in Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

HHFT provides one service from multiple locations including our own hospitals which provide a full range of planned and emergency services including accident and emergency, general and specialist surgery, general medicine, intensive care, rehabilitation, chemotherapy, diagnostic services, maternity, neonatal, gynaecology, paediatric care and outpatient clinics.

We are committed to training and developing our staff and are willing to consider flexible working arrangements.