East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Surgical Pharmacist
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Surgical Pharmacist
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Surgical Pharmacist to join our Surgical Pharmacy team. This is an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist who is keen to develop a career in surgical pharmacy, build specialist clinical knowledge, and gain experience as a directorate pharmacist within a supportive and forward-thinking pharmacy service.
This post is based in Willam Harvey Hospital. You will provide clinical pharmacy services across a range of surgical specialties.
You will work as part of a well-established multidisciplinary team and attending consultant-led ward rounds to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.
Responsibilities
- To provide clinical pharmacy services to the Surgical wards.
- Ensure the clinical services provided are of a high standard and that medication are clinically screened in a timely manner.
- To develop effective working relationships, to challenge and to prioritise your own work as well as the work of the team.
- To support junior staff in the department.
- To take full part in clinical/dispensary rota, weekend rota and bank holiday duties.
- To take part in the support of pharmacy out-of-hours service (first on-call duties).
- Appropriately manage difficult and ambiguous problems.
- To demonstrate expert knowledge in the clinical specialty, delivering a service in accordance with the priorities set by the Chief Pharmacist and the Trust agreed standards including:
- Demonstrate an advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement.
- Demonstrate an intuitive grasp of situations.
- To assist in providing a specialist pharmaceutical service to tertiary services including the provision of education and training, procedures, protocols and medicines usage information.
- To provide leadership and directorate/service support roles to surgery department.
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Our surgical services include Major Trauma, Orthopaedics, MaxFax, General Surgery, ENT and Ophthalmology, offering exposure to a broad range of specialist clinical areas and excellent opportunities to develop advanced clinical practice.
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About Us
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.
Contact
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Crystal Lim
- Job title: Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Surgery & Theatre
- Email address: jia.lim3@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 07745736672
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