Lead Pharmacist + RRP £2000

Job summary

Are you an experienced pharmacist looking to progress your career and develop your leadership skills whilst also maintaining a patient-facing role? We have the job for you! Join our team with a rewarding career move as a Lead Pharmacist We are expanding our senior clinical team and are looking for motivated, dynamic pharmacists to provide clinical expertise and leadership across our medicine and surgical divisions. You will be instrumental in developing pharmacy services and mentoring our pharmacists on their foundation pathway. We have part-time (minimum 22.5hours) and full-time hours available across three posts:

Lead pharmacist for Medicine covering cardiology, endocrinology, respiratory, gastroenterology and our award-winning spinal unit.

Lead pharmacist for Surgery covering general surgery, upper GI, colorectal, gynaecology, urology, ENT and day surgery.

Lead pharmacist for Orthopaedics, Burns & Plastics covering orthopaedics, our specialist regional burns and plastics unit and pre-operative assessment.

This role attracts a £2,000 RRP payment alongside the Band 8a salary and we can also offer a relocation allowance.

Take a moment to watch a video showcasing our department and what we do - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV9rjQwR1j0

Main duties of the job

The pharmacists we are looking for will be strong clinicians, organised, hardworking and dedicated with great communication skills and a passion for education and training. You will need to have a Postgraduate Clinical Diploma (or equivalent experience) and ideally be a current non-medical prescriber or willing to work towards the qualification. The role will focus on providing a high-quality clinical pharmacy service, expanding and improving our services whilst also working to develop our foundation and trainee pharmacist workforce.You will also be supported by a large established team of ward-based clinical pharmacy technicians.

We are a super friendly team with a passion for delivering excellent patient care. We have a bright and airy department with a large tearoom and access to outdoor open spaces to improve wellbeing. Our service is open 7 days a week and our current opening hours are Monday to Friday 8.30am-5pm (with no late night rota), Saturday 9am-1pm and Sunday 9.30am-1pm. Weekend shifts are 1 in 8 with one bank holiday per year.

For further details on the role and responsibilities please find our job description attached. For more about living and working in Salisbury see attached Our City Our Hospital.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visitingwww.experiencesalisbury.co.uk