Job overview
We are seeking an innovative and driven Advanced Pharmacist with a passion for Rheumatology and Dermatology to join our forward thinking and friendly team at HHFT.
Our department provides an environment that supports learning, team working and encourages individuals to develop within their role.
We are looking for someone with extensive clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience. You will have excellent skills in communications, negotiation and clinical pharmacy along with a strong team spirit and experience of supervising other staff.
The successful candidate will play a crucial role within the long term conditions to lead, develop and improve the pathways for patients. Your expertise will transform the approach to care and improve the outcomes for some of our most vulnerable patients.
You will support junior pharmacists and resident doctors working within the speciality in the review of complex patients and the sharing of your expertise to improve the care for our older frail adults. You will be using your prescribing and deprescribing skills to improve outcomes for our long term condition patients.
Main duties of the job
Deliver an advanced level of practice within the field of chronic conditions in Rheumatology and Dermatology.
Practice both independently and in partnership with the multidisciplinary team.
Use your prescribing and deprescribing skills to improve outcomes for our paitents.
Support junior pharmacists and resident doctors working within the speciality.
Be responsible for providing clinical leadership, supervision, and structured teaching for the multidisciplinary team to facilitate ongoing training and education.
Monitor and act on all reports of adverse incidents regarding medication that occur within the defined clinical area, ensuring necessary changes in practice, re-education of staff and sharing of the experience takes place within the Trust to help prevent a similar incidence from taking place.
Agree, set and ensure systems are in place to continuously monitor, review and reset clinical standards of care. That wherever possible clinical practice is research based and in line with nationally recognised best practice. Commenting on and creating clinical guidelines and procedures to support this.
*Candidates must be prepared to work towards an accredited Advanced Clinical Practitioner status to support the service, which will include a non-medical prescribing qualification*
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Tackling Climate Change: Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, search or .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person specification
Training & Qualificiations
Essential criteria
1. Masters in Pharmacy & registered Pharmacist
2. Prescriber or working towards prescriber qualification
3. Evidence of audit and clinical guideline implementation
4. post graduate clinical qualification
5. Intention to undertake Advanced Clinical Practise skills
Desirable criteria
6. Teaching qualification
7. Quality improvement exeprience
8. Leadership qualification
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
9. Evidence of post-graduate hospital clinical pharmacy experience
10. Evidence of specialist therapeutic and clinical knowledge relevant to older person care
11. Evidence of knowledge and understanding of relevant pharmacy/medicines standards, legal requirements, and guidelines
Skills and ability
Essential criteria
12. An ability to make judgements in highly complex situations
13. Able to work independently
14. Advanced Communication skills