Job Title: Specialist Pharmacist - Cardiorespiratory

Division: Cancer & Core Clinical Services

Band: 8a

Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum/pro rata

We are recruiting for a Specialist Pharmacist - Cardiorespiratorywho shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

The post holder will be the department lead for all activity relating to Cardiology/Respiratory patients. They will be a role model, working to a high level within the pharmacy department.

Specialist Pharmacists are expected to have a key leadership role, acting as a role model for others. They will communicate and maintain excellent working relationships with all those that use, commission and work within the services delivered.

Main duties of the job

Join our pharmacy department and you will work as part of an innovative and well respected team within the Trust. You will have the opportunity to contribute to transformational changes leading to better care for our patients and better experience for our staff.

Here within pharmacy, we have a strong and forward thinking senior leadership team and our transformational work has been presented at national and regional events, most recently at the Health Education England regional Workforce and Quality day.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today. Full training will be provided.

About us

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To be responsible for providing and overseeing the pharmacy clinical service provided to the cardiology and respiratory wards within the hospital

Carry out education and counselling of new patients at the start of newly started high risk medicines.

Ensures the provision of a proactive, high quality, cost effective, safe and responsive service to cardiorespiratory wards.

To actively develop the cardiorespiratory pharmacy service, exploring opportunities for clinically advanced services, such as review of patients in clinic.

To provide a clinical ward pharmacy service to the cardiorespiratory ward and lead on the education and training of other members of pharmacy and MDT in the pharmaceutical management of these patients.

Check the clinical accuracy and appropriateness of prescriptions for patients

To ensure the appropriate ordering of medicines for cardiorespiratory patients to ensure medicines are available for patients and to minimise wastage from unused or expired medicines.

Attend the board rounds and MDTs where applicaple within specialist medicine, providing expert pharmaceutical advice.

To actively lead on efficiency savings within cardiorespiratory department.

To support with the screening of Homecare prescriptions.

To be the pharmacy department liaison within cardiorespiratory department.

To identify and implement opportunities for the efficient use of medicines in cardiorespiratory.

To support with the late night, weekend and bank holiday rota as part of the departments 7 day services.

To develop a personal audit and research portfolio.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Master's degree in pharmacy
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacist in the UK (or eligible to be)
• Specialist post graduate qualification such as clinical diploma or equivalent experience

Desirable

• Non-medical Independent Prescribing Qualification.

Knowledge

Essential

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of medicine
• Knowledge of and ability to apply all aspects of regulatory legislation and guidelines
• Demonstrate expert knowledge covering a range of pharmacy services and able to provide highly specialist advice

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in the area to a high level
• Proven experience of delivering responsibilities and objectives to time in previous posts
• Experience of providing a service to the Specialist area

Skills

Essential

• Demonstrates ability to identify problems, analyse root cause and propose solutions for complex problems
• Able to solve difficult and ambiguous problems by advanced reasoning and sound technical judgment
• Able to manage and support others
• Advanced IT skills - including MS Word, Excel, email and PowerPoint
• Experience in providing and receiving highly complex and contentious information

Employer details

Employer name

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Gillingham

ME7 5NY

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