Advanced Clinical Lead Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine

Advanced Clinical Lead Pharmacist – Emergency Medicine

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We are looking to recruit a dynamic pharmacist to lead our Clinical Pharmacy Service to Acute and Emergency Medicine.

You will lead an amazing team of Advanced Specialist Pharmacists, Foundation Pharmacists, Medicines Management Technicians, and Medicines Management Assistants, providing the best possible care to Acute and Emergency Medicine. You will work across our Royal Stoke University Hospital & County Hospital Sites, leading the Pharmacy Service to our Acute Care Clinical Business Unit, which includes a ward based pharmacy service to the following departments:

• Emergency Departments (one ED per site)
• AMUs (one AMU per site)
• Acute Medicine Rapid Assessment Unit (AMRA)
• Short Stay Unit (SSU)
• Frailty EAU

You will also work alongside our Advanced Clinical Lead Pharmacist for Respiratory/Gastroenterology and our Advanced Clinical Lead Pharmacist for General Medicine, to drive the Pharmacy Service to the wider Unplanned (Medicine) Care Group and implement new innovative ways of working.

We are passionate about investing in the training and development of our pharmacy staff and have a fully established Pharmacy Education and Training Team.

Choose to join our large and friendly team and you will be supported to achieve your full potential.

Lead a team of highly skilled pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and other pharmacy staff working to deliver cutting edge pharmacy services to patients.

Support the further development of the clinical pharmacy workforce including the role of Medicines Management Technicians and Medicines Management Assistants.

Develop a strategic plan for the operational delivery of clinical pharmacy services to Acute & Emergency Medicine, supporting a positive patient experience and the medicines optimisation agenda.

Seek and implement timely initiatives to reduce missed doses of time critical medicines, improve safety, improve service delivery and improve patient flow.

Work as an independent prescriber on in-patient wards and/or in outpatient clinics.

Further information is provided in the attached job description.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we’re highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM creates and encourages a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co‑created by staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Daniel Peddie, Deputy Clinical Director - Clinical Services Lead, ,

Director

Full-time

Health Care Provider

Hospitals and Health Care