Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Family Services (Womens and Children)

at  Northern Lincolnshire Goole NHS Foundation Trust

Looking for a new challenge working within a dynamic and friendly team? Look no further!
We have an exciting development opportunity for a Band 8a Advanced Clinical Pharmacist with a speciality in Family Services at Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust (part of the Humber Health Partnership). This may be offered as a Band 7-8a progression role depending on experience.
You will undertake a structured process, receiving additional support from the established team at Hull Royal Infirmary, to achieve Advanced Clinical Pharmacist status and, upon successful completion of your objectives, demonstrate high quality acute clinical pharmacy skills, together with leading a team. A ward-based role, working flexibly to deliver activities across 3 major acute sites within the Group. Most of the activities will be at our Grimsby and Scunthorpe hospital sites, and occasional requirements to travel to our Teaching Hospital at Hull Royal Infirmary (depending on service demands) whilst participating in rotas and/or shift working as necessary, including weekend and bank holidays.
Base site will be agreed upon job offer, and travel expenses (or alternative travel arrangements) will be provided for travel between the Group sites. Please note that there are no public transport links between the Group sites; the ability to drive is essential for this role.
We are looking forward to meeting you! Site visits, information and virtual meetings available on request.
The postholder would be responsible for providing an advanced clinical pharmacist service within the Family Services Directorate. This role requires excellent organisational and interpersonal skills alongside sound clinical knowledge and relevant experience. We are a successful, innovative and forward-thinking department with patient care at the centre of decision making. We actively use skill mix and role development to enhance job content and quality at all levels of the department. The department is supported by a robust management team, Pharmacy Technician and Pharmacy Support Worker structure that enables our Advanced Clinical Pharmacists to be actively involved in and focus on clinical and professional aspects of patient care. You will be responsible for managing and supervising the duties of Pharmacists, Pre-registration Pharmacists and ward support technicians within the clinical team. You will be responsible for supporting the medicines information services and training pharmacy staff to deliver these services. You will support the Clinical Pharmacy Team Manager in the delivery of the Pharmacy Vision and Values Strategy together with the other Clinical Pharmacy Team Leaders. The Trust has acknowledged the high quality of the services delivered by our clinical teams but we recognise the need for further integration of our pharmacists into clinical specialties to deliver a more strategic perspective of medicines optimisation and improve patient care.
Interview Date TBC
We’re a large organisation with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.
We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt ‘best practice’ so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.
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