East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Clinical Pharmacist – Critical Care and Theatre Services
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Are you an enthusiastic & experienced pharmacist looking for a career change & your next challenge?
We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our modern purpose-built facilities at Colchester Hospital and support and lead the department's clinical pharmacy service within Critical Care and associated specialist areas.
You will be based within the Pharmacy department but will spend a significant amount of time working at ward/clinical level, ensuring the delivery of all aspects of pharmacy service to specialist high-risk patients.
Our friendly pharmacy team are dedicated to nurturing, mentoring and developing our staff to reach their full potential. As well as direct one-to-one training, the department provides pharmacy forums, clinical huddles and other educational activity. We support personal development plans, smart objective setting and opportunities for study.
ESNEFT has embarked on a full, site wide implementation of the EPIC electronic patient record which includes electronic prescribing and administration and pharmacy stock control system replacement.
In addition to our fully automated dispensaries, we host one of the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service medicines advice sites and the Regional Pharmacy Manufacturing Unit.
This post is fixed term / secondment until November 2027 to cover maternity leave. Internal applicants currently employed by ESNEFT will be offered on a secondment basis only.
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We would consider a Band 7 developmental post where you will receive a competency-based programme to gain the skills required to reach the Band 8a.
Please follow our link to find out more About our Pharmacy Service: https://esneft.pagetiger.com/csusdpr/1
Role Responsibilities:
- Provide an advanced level clinical pharmacy service to Critical Care patients in line with the pharmacy Key Performance Indicators and agreed clinical standards.
- Provide oversight and clinical expertise to patients within Recovery and Theatre areas.
- Support the wider Nutrition Service affecting patients within the speciality.
- Provide a key level of support to the Principal Divisional Clinical for Surgery and Critical Pharmacist.
- Provide ongoing clinical support and leadership to other pharmacy colleagues and the multidisciplinary team contributing to practice within the specific areas of working.
- Assist senior multidisciplinary colleagues in ensuring that all required medication safety and clinical governance issues are actioned and implemented in a timely manner within the respected specialties.
About Us:
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
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We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Contact Information:
- Name: Sayful Choudhury
- Job Title: Principal Pharmacist for Surgery
- Email Address: sayful.choudhury@esneft.nhs.uk
- Telephone Number: 01206 745985
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