Overview
Lead Womens and Childrens Pharmacist (Frimley site) – Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
We are excited to offer a fantastic opportunity for a passionate and motivated pharmacist to join Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust as our Lead Womens and Childrens Pharmacist. This is a progressive Band 7 to 8a role, designed to support your professional development whilst giving you the chance to lead, innovate and make a real difference to patient care.
As a dedicated paediatric specialist, you will be at the heart of delivering safe, effective, and compassionate pharmaceutical care to infants, children, and adolescents. You will work closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure the highest standards of medicines optimisation, as well as educating and supporting both healthcare staff and families. This post is based at Frimley Park Hospital, but you will have cross-site leadership responsibilities across the Trust.
Responsibilities
* Provide expert clinical pharmacy input for paediatric and neonatal patients across the Trust.
* Develop and run your own Independent Prescribing clinic.
* Support clinical governance and safe medicines use at the Alexander Devine Hospice, as part of a collaborative and compassionate team.
* Lead and mentor junior pharmacists and pharmacy staff, acting as a role model for best practice.
* Contribute to service development and improvement initiatives across the Womens and Childrens services.
* Work closely with senior pharmacists, clinicians, nursing and midwifery staff and other senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to patients within the relevant directorates.
* Act as a source of expert advice and information on Women and Childrens medicines.
* Participate in the development of Patient Group Directions when required.
* Be responsible for the screening, monitoring and ordering of parenteral nutrition for neonates and paediatric patients.
* Cultivate links with tertiary and primary care, and develop shared care agreements, working with the ICS and NHSE Pharmacist where necessary.
* Fulfil this role as a Medicines Management Practitioner (NMP) within your area of competence, including medicines reconciliation on admission and prescribing on discharge (including MCAs on FP10s for Community Pharmacists).
* Take an active role in committees relating to the specialist area (e.g., paediatric clinical governance, Neonatal MDT, Maternity forum).
* Evaluate, plan and implement service developments to improve the quality of the pharmacy service to the specialist area.
* Participate in the clinical training of junior pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists and other pharmacy staff, acting as an Educational Supervisor or Practice Supervisor.
Qualifications and Skills
* Experienced hospital pharmacist with a strong background in clinical pharmacy.
* Specialist knowledge and interest in paediatric and neonatal care.
* Excellent communication, teaching, and leadership skills.
* Motivated, confident, and able to inspire others.
* Ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team while also leading service delivery.
Work Environment and Benefits
* Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been recognised for Armed Forces Employment (Gold).
* First-class development opportunities across professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training.
* Plans to support work-life balance and flexible working patterns where possible to meet service needs.
* Opportunities to develop expertise in paediatric pharmacy within a forward-thinking Trust.
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