Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Emergency and Acute CareNHS

Job summary

We're delighted to invite applications to join our team of Emergency and Acute Care (EAC) Specialist Clinical Pharmacists at the Queens Medical Centre. The EAC directorate consists of a large acute medicine ward, a same day emergency care (SDEC) unit, ED, level 1 care area and a newly created General Internal medicine (GIM) service.

The role is to lead and develop the pharmacy service to the new GIM ward with support from the wider EAC pharmacy team.

Our acute admissions unit is one of the largest in the country, so we've created a large clinical pharmacy team to deliver an excellent 7 day service.

The post offers an outstanding opportunity to develop your portfolio of clinical knowledge and skills for the management of patients as part of the friendly, progressive and dynamic multidisciplinary team, as well as build on your leadership abilities.

If not already obtained then the post holder may be supported through the independent prescribing course.

Our vision is to be outstanding in health outcomes and patient & staff experience.

Main duties of the job

You will deliver a high standard of medicine optimisation ideally utilising your prescribing skills.

You will work closely with the MDT, on & off the ward.

You will have opportunities to support governance, education and medication safety.

You will be expected to line manage, providing mentoring, and support with an individuals development and objectives.

You will be expected to be involved in quality improvement work within EAC and aim to publish your work to share your findings.

You will be working a shift pattern over 7 days, and time off to compensate is built in to the rota ensuring a good work-life balance.

Job description

In addition to the below summary, you need to familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification attached to this advert.

Supporting and providing the clinical pharmacy service to the EAC directorate, and the wider Medicine Division where necessary.

Actively participating in consultant-led ward rounds to promote and support medicines optimisation, antimicrobial stewardship and effective discharge planning.

Involvement in education and training of a variety of healthcare professionals including diploma & pre-registration pharmacists, undergraduates and trainee advanced nurse practitioners.

Participate in back-up senior on-call rota supporting junior pharmacists

Whilst this post is commissioned to be full time (equivalent of 37.5 hours per week) we would welcome applications from those wanting a better work life balance. If you would like to consider this post but on less than full time hours, please still apply and outline this on your application form or please contact us for further discussion.

About us

With over 20,000 colleagues, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

As a pharmacy department, we are forward thinking & constantly implementing innovative ways of working to deliver the best possible patient care.

We have a strong belief in leading our teams compassionately & fostering a supportive & caring workplace