Job overview
We are in the fortunate position to be able to welcome a clinical pharmacist to our innovative and progressive Hampshire Hospitals Pharmacy team. This is a unique role in which you can develop your specialist skillset and advance your clinical skills.
1. As an Advanced Rotational Pharmacist, you will spend time in a patient facing role working on inpatient wards to support the delivery of a range of clinical services.
2. Through a competency based program, you will gain experience and training in surgery, acute medicine, intensive care and nutrition, frailty, palliative care, aseptic services, governance and training, enhancing your advanced clinical skills and building your non-clinical skills. The Trust has a strong multidisciplinary approach with extended roles for non-medical staff.
3. The successful candidate will be provided with the support of a well-established team, opportunities to develop and embed their careers, and to make a difference to patients’ lives.
Main duties of the job
4. To develop, deliver and evaluate the Clinical Pharmacy Service provided to the speciality assigned, with responsibility for business planning and staff management in line with pharmacy service level agreements and objectives set by the Director of Pharmacy, Clinical Pharmacy Manager & Lead Clinical Pharmacist.
5. To manage staff to ensure the effective operation of the Services provided to the Speciality
6. The post holder has joint responsibility with the other Specialist and Clinical Pharmacists within the business unit for the overall leadership of the Pharmacy Service
7. To ensure that the highest standards of clinical care are continuously delivered
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.
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
We welcome applications from pharmacists who may not meet all the essential criteria or who have gained clinical experience in primary care.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
8. GPHC registration
Experience
Essential criteria
9. Work in a hospital clinical pharmacy environment
Knowledge
Essential criteria
10. PG cert clinical pharmacy