Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Pharmacist - Older People's Medicine
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Lead Pharmacist 8A – Older People's Medicine
Full-time | Permanent
Are you an experienced and forward-thinking pharmacist looking for your next leadership opportunity in a specialist clinical role? Frimley Health is seeking an enthusiastic, motivated, and highly skilled pharmacist to join our dynamic Older People's Medicine team as a Band 8A Lead Pharmacist.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred pharmaceutical care within Older People's Medicine, while providing expert clinical leadership across the Trust.
Based at Wexham Park Hospital, this post also carries cross-site responsibilities, offering the chance to work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and influence service delivery on a wider scale.
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To be successful in this role, you should have:
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- A Postgraduate Clinical Diploma (or equivalent).
- Independent Prescribing qualification.
- Significant post-registration clinical pharmacy experience.
- A commitment to continuing professional development and advancing practice within Older People's Medicine.
- The ability to provide expert advice, lead service improvement, and support the development of pharmacy practice within the speciality.
Main duties of the job
- To develop the clinical pharmacy service to patients within the specialist area.
- To provide clinical pharmacy services to patients within the specialist areas.
- To act as a role model in the field of clinical pharmacy practice and provide a consistently high standard of clinical service in line with the pharmacy objectives.
- To support the recruitment, management, and development of staff under the postholder.
- To work closely with the senior pharmacists, clinicians, nursing staff, and other senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to patients within the directorate.
- To ensure close relations cross-site with the Older People's Medicine team at Frimley Park Hospital.
- To attend ward rounds / clinics when appropriate and able.
- Provide a clinical pharmacy service to specialised areas and a clinical pharmacy service to cover other areas when ward cover is needed.
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