Principal Pharmacist Clinical Education

at  North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for an ambitious, highly skilled senior pharmacist to take up a departmental senior leadership role managing the Clinical Education pharmacy team across all Trust sites. You will be leading and managing the strategic development of clinical education, with support from a range of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians and will lead, develop strategy and quality assure programmes to ensure a consistent and integrated approach to advanced pharmacist practice education and training across sites and will be responsible for providing professional leadership, together with expertise, advice and support.
You will need an excellent clinical knowledge base, possess significant and proven leadership, project and change management skills and have an ability to build effective relationships and influence prescribing practice at a senior level.
As the post-holder you will be expected to participate in the weekend, bank holiday and on-call rotas.
Leading the development and operational performance of a comprehensive and high-quality clinical medicine and therapeutics education and training programme for all pharmacy staff and members of the multidisciplinary team in-line with national standards.
Making a significant contribution to the delivery of corporate, divisional and departmental operational and strategic priorities and to the modernisation of pharmaceutical education and training services across the Trust.
Actively representing education and training developments as a member of the senior leadership team and deputising for the Chief Pharmacist and members of the pharmacy senior management team at departmental, divisional and Trust meetings as required.
Leading site planning and implementation of innovative education and training programmes in liaison with regional and national educational bodies to support cost-effective, patient-focussed service provision, including e-learning. Delivering advanced clinical services to an assigned clinical speciality utilising non-medical prescribing qualifications.
We are dedicated to fostering diversity and inclusivity within our workforce and warmly welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, with a particular emphasis on encouraging those from disabled, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities, as well as candidates from our local area.
As part of our commitment to supporting our employees we offer a range of benefits including:
Generous annual leave entitlement starting at 27 days and increasing to 29 days after five years of service and 33 days after 10 years of service, in addition to the national Bank Holidays (pro-rata for part time staff);

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