Lead Pharmacist – Unscheduled Care
This is an exciting opportunity to develop your leadership and medicines optimisation skills as the Lead Pharmacist for the Unscheduled Care. As an experienced and competent clinical pharmacist, you will lead the Clinical Pharmacy service and provide assurance to the Emergency Department and Admissions Units at Basingstoke & North Hampshire Hospital.
You will be supported by the Senior and Clinical Pharmacy Teams and encouraged to utilise prescribing skills to support timely, effective and safe patient care at admission. In addition, you will support the Business Unit through monthly reports, governance management, audit and improvement projects.
Advanced Lead Clinical Pharmacist – working as a non‑medical prescriber in the speciality. Role includes teaching, training, audit and research.
What We Look For
* An accomplished communicator and highly motivated team player with good problem‑solving skills
* A capable clinical pharmacist committed to providing the highest quality care for patients
* An innovative leader committed to service improvement
What We Offer
* Supportive and friendly teams, both within Pharmacy and the Trust
* Opportunities for training and development, both personal and professional, including extended practice
* Collaborative working within and outside of the Trust
* Flexible working patterns that cater to individual requirements (discussed at interview)
* Benefits include supportive environment and quality patient care experience
Key Responsibilities
* Support the ED and acute medical units, liaising with the multidisciplinary team and lead clinician as well as the pharmacy team
* Day‑to‑day clinical management of patients, focusing on medicines optimisation, monitoring key quality/performance indicators and recommending/implementing actions to address them
* Ensure necessary/appropriate medications are available for assessment and treatment needs of the speciality, reporting on workforce requirements for meeting service demand
* Lead, develop, deliver and evaluate the clinical pharmacy service to ED and acute medical units
* Participate in a departmental working group to scope, plan and implement an electronic prescribing and administration system within the ED
* Provide effective line management and staff development, including annual appraisals and development reviews
* Attend and represent the ED at MERG, attend monthly departmental governance meetings and weekly senior team meetings
* Support the Business Unit through regular monthly reports and face‑to‑face interaction
About HHFT
HHFT is committed to providing patients, visitors and staff with a high quality and safe environment. HHFT provides medical and surgical services to people living in Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire, with a full range of planned and emergency services including accident and emergency, general and specialist surgery, general medicine, intensive care, rehabilitation, chemotherapy, diagnostic services, maternity, neonatal, gynaecology, paediatric care and outpatient clinics.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
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