Advanced Pharmacist for Critical Care and General Surgery

Job summary

This will be a great opportunity for an experienced Pharmacist to develop the Clinical Pharmacy service, working closely with very enthusiastic speciality teams.

This post is available as a band 8a or 7 to 8a progression depending on your experience. As a pharmacy team we work closely with the critical care multidisciplinary team including attending daily consultant led ward rounds.

Critical care experience would be desirable but training can be provided in this speciality and you would be supported by other Advanced Pharmacists working in critical care.

There would be the opportunity to complete UKCPA critical care courses and NHS England courses to upskill critical care workforce. This year we have pharmacist completing both the foundation course and PG Cert in Advanced Pharmacy Practice (Critical Care). Being an NMP would be essential and if needed, enrolment on the course will be fully supported by the department.

If you are already a prescriber this will be a great opportunity to put your prescribing into practice.

The role will work closely with the Lead Surgical Services Pharmacist, other surgical leads and the critical care team. We have ePMA on the wards including surgery and we are about to implement a critical care specific ePMA system on all our critical care units.

There will also be opportunity to undertake research projects relating to surgery and critical care, to help further increase the evidence base and improve patient care.

Main duties of the job

• To operate as an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist in Surgery across the Trust
• To be the speciality pharmacist for Critical Care, General Surgery and Hospital at Home supporting safe and effective use of medicines within these specialities to improve medicines safety
• To operationally oversee on a day to day basis the performance of the surgical team working within these specialities.
• To effectively manage and supervise pharmacists working within the surgical team and oversee the supervision of other pharmacy staff working on the surgical wards.
• To deputise for the Lead Pharmacist for Surgery at Pharmacy and Care Group level when required

About us

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 695,000 people.

Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'.

We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

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