A new role offering exciting opportunities to shape and drive Berkshire Healthcare pharmacy services in the years ahead. You will get autonomy, variation and the chance to further develop your leadership and clinical skills. You will work in a forward-thinking Trust that has adopted quality improvement approach (QMIS) which aims to help us deliver the best possible care to our patients, recognising that better never stops.

If you are dynamic, innovative and proactive, seek and embrace change, and have a track record of implementing change and inspiring others, then we want you! Come and use your experience, knowledge, and energy to target service improvement and help take us to the next level. As AIT Pharmacist, you will represent pharmacy externally and at Trust meetings, liaising closely with other Trust leaders and managers. You will also be an experienced clinical pharmacist, ideally with strong mental health experience

Main duties of the job

• Major input into Pharmacy Vision, with senior Pharmacy team.

• Responsibility for the ongoing development delivery of our Pharmacy vision.

• Ensuring effective implementation and operation of pharmacy AIT plans.

• Responsible for the ongoing development, audit and oversight of our change plans.

• Be a clinically active member of the Pharmacy Service (circa 50% of time), in either mental or physical health services

• Participating in the paid on-call (EDC) pharmacy service (approx. 1 in 10

About us

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated 'outstanding' by the CQC, we're committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire. As an employer, we're committed to offering an inclusive and compassionate environment where our people share in a sense of belonging and are supported to flourish.

Our values at Berkshire Healthcare are:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

Your wellbeing is important to us. Some of the benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance
• 27 days' annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• 'Cycle to Work' and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
• Free parking across Trust sites

Job description

Job responsibilities

To be considered for this role, you must have:

• Great AIT delivery skills and strong relevant change experience

• A hospital clinical pharmacist background, with a strong patient focus, clinical skills and knowledge

• Good systems thinking, with a collaborative can-do approach

For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.

If youre someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required

Person Specification

Education/Qualifications/Training

Essential

• Master's degree in pharmacy or equivalent
• Master's degree in pharmacy or equivalent Statutory registration - General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable

• Royal Pharmaceutical Society of GB Member
• Postgraduate Clinical diploma or equivalent experience
• Management qualification

Continuous Professional Development

Essential

• Evidence of continuing professional development (GPhC)
• Experience of audit, projects and managing change
• Experience of audit, projects and managing change Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team
• Experience of undertaking and developing audits

Desirable

• Delivery of pharmacy services across a range of areas
• Experience of budget reports (preparing or analysis)
• Involvement in developing a service within pharmacy

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

Essential

• Good communication, interpersonal and organisational skills
• IT competencies across a range of common software.
• Advanced keyboard skills and computer literate, with the ability to use software packages (including pharmacy IT systems and electronic patient records)
• Basic project management skills
• Requirement to use a computer screen for long periods on daily basis
• Ability to travel independently and efficiently between Trust locations to fulfil the requirements of the role

Employer details

Employer name

Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust

Address

Pharmacy Dept - Prospect Park Hospital

Reading

RG30 4EJ

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

371-CS229