Lead Pharmacist Women and Children's

Job Overview

We are seeking a dedicated and compassionate Paediatric Pharmacist to join our dynamic pharmacy team. The ideal candidate will possess specialized knowledge and experience in pharmaceutical care for infants, children, and adolescents. This role involves collaborating with healthcare professionals to ensure the safe and effective use of medications in paediatric patients, educating staff and families, and contributing to the overall health and well-being of our younger population.

In this dynamic role, you’ll not only deliver essential pharmacy services to paediatric and neonatal patients but also have the opportunity to lead your own clinic as an Independent Prescriber.

Furthermore, you'll enhance your clinical governance skills at the Alexander De Vine Hospice, where you'll be part of a compassionate team dedicated to providing exceptional care.

Although based at Frimley Park Hospital, the role has cross-site responsibilities and leadership across the Trust.

The post holder must have hospital pharmacy experience involving clinical pharmacy skills as well teaching skills. The role requires the ability to work effectively as part of a team, through excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as the ability to motivate themselves and others. To be successful in this application the post holder must demonstrate confidence as a senior clinical pharmacist and be a role model to more junior staff.

Main duties of the job

• To work closely with the senior pharmacists, clinicians, nursing and midwifery staff and other senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to patients within the relevant directorates.
• To act as a source of expert advice and information on Women and Children’s medicines
• To participate in the development of Patient Group Directions when required
• To be responsible for the screening, monitoring and ordering of parenteral nutrition for neonates and paediatric patients
• To cultivate links with tertiary and primary care, and to develop shared care agreements, working with the ICS and NHSE Pharmacist where necessary
• As a NMP to fulfil this role within the individual’s area of competence, including medicines reconciliation on admission and prescribing of currently prescribed medicines on discharge. This will include prescribing for MCAs (Multi-compartment aids) on FP10s for supply by Community Pharmacists.
• To take an active role in committees relating to specialist area e.g. paediatric clinical governance, Neonatal MDT and the Maternity forum
• To evaluate, plan and implement service developments to improve the quality of the pharmacy service to the specialist area.
• To participate in the clinical training of junior pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists and other pharmacy staff acting as an Educational Supervisor or Practice Supervisor.
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

Please see separate job description attached to documents which includes the full job description and person specification.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Pharmacy degree (Masters level 4 years)
• Registered with GPHC
• Independent prescriber (or intention to become one )
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
• Postgraduate clinical diploma or equivalent
  
  

Desirable criteria

• MSC or higher degree
• UKCPA membership
• RPS membership
• Formal management qualification
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of producing guidelines
• Experience of producing drug appraisals
• Experience of managing staff
• Significant post-qualification experience working as a pharmacist in a clinical environment
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Regular experience of providing clinical pharmacy support
• Clinical audit experience
• Teaching /tutoring experience
  
  

professional experience

Essential criteria

• TPN training in neonates and paediatrics
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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