West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust
Lead Pharmacist - Surgery, Theatres and Critical Care
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Are you ready for an exciting opportunity to lead a dynamic service in the restructured pharmacy team at West Suffolk Hospital NHS Trust?
We are looking for a Lead Pharmacist to provide leadership and strategic direction to our clinical pharmacy service within the surgical directorate. This is a 12-month fixed term position to cover maternity leave, offering you the chance to make a real impact within an ambitious and supportive team.
Working closely with and reporting to the Principal Pharmacist for Clinical Services, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and developing high-quality clinical pharmacy services across the Trust’s surgical wards. This role requires an experienced clinical pharmacist with specialist knowledge of critical care practice and a passion for delivering excellent patient care within complex and fast-paced clinical environments.
Responsibilities:
- Develop the specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients within the associated area in line with local and national standards and policies, ensuring the safe, clinical and cost-effective use of medicines and staff resources.
- Provide a highly specialised level of pharmaceutical care to patients and support other healthcare staff in meeting risk management, financial management and clinical governance responsibilities around the use of medicines.
- Provide highly specialised advice within their area of clinical specialism to other pharmacists and healthcare professionals, including participation in multidisciplinary and governance meetings.
- Deliver training to pharmacists and foundation pharmacist trainees within their area of clinical specialism and undertake clinical supervision, mentoring and assessments of junior pharmacists, medicines management technicians and pre-registration pharmacists.
- Carry out clinical pharmacy audit and practice research in conjunction with the Principal Pharmacist Clinical Services.
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We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
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Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and teamwork guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyone's voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
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For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Alexis Pedro Marcos
- Job title: Principal Pharmacist – Clinical Services
- Email address: alexis.marcos@wsh.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01284713232
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