Balfor Healthcare are currently seeking a Senior Pharmacist to join Wye Valley NHS Trust on a temp to perm basis.
Wye Valley is situated on the border of Wales in a beautiful, rural location, whereby we can offer a great work-life balance.
The senior pharmacist role will lead and support the Pharmacy Service provided to the Surgical Specialities Directorate. This includes responsibility for general surgery, colorectal surgery, urology surgery, breast surgery and staff associated with the pharmacy service.
You will be responsible for the pharmaceutical care to the Surgical Specialities Directorate, including clinical, medicines safety and financial governance associated with medicines use.
Job Responsibilities
- Responsible for leading, developing and delivering specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation to the Surgical Specialities Directorate.
- Use specialist knowledge of medicines to advise within a multi-disciplinary team of doctors, nurses, patients, carers and pharmacy staff on all pharmaceutical aspects of care.
- To receive and deliver highly complex clinical information.
- Use an Independent Prescribing qualification to support the prompt prescribing of medicines on admission to reduce missed doses and within their own clinical area of competence to improve medicine optimisation and patient safety.
- Responsible for the development, monitoring and review of medicines related guidelines to the Surgical Specialities Directorate.
- Support the ward based and dispensary clinical pharmacy service through clinical checking of prescriptions in line with professional, legal and best practice standards and acting as Responsible Pharmacist where appropriate
Essential Requirements
- MPharm & registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacist
- Post graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experience to a similar level. If only the diploma certificate achieved (Yr 1) then a band 7 to 8a progression will be considered once all other criteria met
- Non-medical prescribing qualification (or working towards/ willingness to complete)
- Evidence of CPD and study beyond registration in line with requirements for revalidation and demonstrating commitment to lifelong learning.
Please email siobhan@balfor.co.uk for a Full Job Description and Person Specification