Lead Advanced Pharmacist Surgery and Nutrition
Band 8a
Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 8a Contract Fixed term: 6 months (EDC, weekend cover 1 in 8 (2 days time back in the week)) Hours
* Full time
* Part time
* Job share
* Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (Weekends + Oncall) Job ref 434-SCS7212286-C
Site Stoke Mandeville Hospital Town Aylesbury Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum (+ EDC) pro rata for part time Salary period Yearly Closing 15/09/2025 23:59
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Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
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More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
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Job overview
Are you a forward-thinking pharmacist with a passion for innovation and patient safety? Do you thrive in a dynamic, collaborative environment?If so, we have an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Lead Pharmacist Surgery and Nutrition to join the Surgery and Critical Care pharmacy team at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT).
As Lead Pharmacist, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and implementing new medicines and guidelines across multiple specialties, alongside providing clinical expertise to patients requiring parenteral nutrition. Working closely with consultants, specialist nurses, dietitians and frontline healthcare professionals, you will drive excellence in medicines management, safety, and governance.
This is a demanding yet highly rewarding position, offering the opportunity to make a real impact on patient care. You’ll be part of a supportive and forward-thinking team, driving change and enhancing clinical pharmacy services across the trust.
If you’re ready for the next step in your career we would love to hear from you
**If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to give us a call. Our contact details for the relevant team members are below**
Main duties of the job
• Responsible for managing, delivering, planning and developing the clinical pharmacy services to the Surgical directorate cross site and patients who require parenteral nutrition (PN) Trust wide. The Surgical directorate includes Surgical Assessment Unit (SAU), Trauma and orthopaedics, general and elective surgery, Urology, Gynae and Plastics.
• To provide leadership and training of the team that delivers this service to ensure the service is provided to high standards.
• To manage medicine related risks and ensure Trust Medicines policy and medicines legislation is complied with within the surgical directorate and for patients with PN needs
• To provide a consistently high pharmacy service to patients in line with the Trust corporate objectives and the NHS plan.
• To support the Trust financial objectives by providing financial analysis and advice in relation to medicines management to the Surgical Directorate, PN service and the Pharmacy department.
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
* As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
* We offer flexible and agile workingopportunities,alongside your NHS benefits ofgenerous annual leave entitlement, pension andaccess toNHS discount schemes.
* We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
* We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
* As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
* Greater diversity withinourBHT familyimprovespositive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
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What do we stand for?
* Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
* Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
* Our care values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
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Person specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
* Master’s degree in Pharmacy (MPharm)
* Registered Pharmacist: Member of GPhC
* Post-graduate certificate in clinically-based pharmacy or equivalent
* Demonstrate professional networking (e.g. member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society or UKCPA)
* Registered Independent Pharmacist Prescriber
EXPERIENCE
* Significant experience of hospital pharmacy at Post Registration Pharmacist level
* Significant experience of delivery of pharmacy services to a broad range of specialties
* Experience of delivery of clinical pharmacy service to a specialist level
* Experience of conducting service audits and the use of performance indicators
* Experience of teaching and tutoring
* Evidence of significant relevant Continuing Professional Development
* Experience of project management
* Experience of training other pharmacy staff
* Experience in foundation pharmacist training
* Experience of managing staff
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
* Able to prioritise and manage own workload
* Work, communicate and provide effective leadership within a team
* Clear and concise verbal and written communication to ensure liaison with multi-disciplinary team, patients and carers and to ensure records are kept accurately and in a legible manner.
* Able to recognise and embrace new ideas and developments in clinical practice and implement under supervision of superiors
* To have a positive attitude, be able to recognise and communicate need for change and be able to participate in change management processes.
* Able to lead and motivate staff and yourself
* Work effectively within teams – within uni- or multi-professional at Departmental, Trust or regional level.
* Prepared to attend any training sessions necessary for personal and service development
* Able to recognise limits of own competencies and to refer and seek advice from colleagues.
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
* Able to travel to other sites within the Trust and to venues for training
PPE requirements:Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.
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Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Siphathisiwe Tshuma Job title Pharmacy Team Lead - Surgery and Critical care Email address siphathisiwe.tshuma@nhs.net Telephone number 07467339156 Additional information
Rachel Cox (Associate Director of Pharmacy)
TEL: 07788 906 746
rachel.cox13@nhs.net
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