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Location

Camberley, Surrey | United Kingdom

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Job description

We are seeking a Formulary Pharmacist to lead the evolution and implementation of our local formulary, ensuring that it is evidence-based, cost-effective and aligned with national and regional guidelines. The post will also oversee the processes for IFRs and High Cost drugs. The Trust uses the Epic electronic patient record system, so the post holder will have the opportunity to adapt formulary processes to the Digital age.

You will also provide expert advice and support to clinicians, managers and patients on formulary issues, as well as conducting audits, evaluations and reviews of prescribing practices. You will work closely with the Clinical Pharmacy and the Pharmacy Procurement teams to ensure that our formulary is up-to-date, relevant and responsive to the needs of our patients and staff.
• To support the Clinical Pharmacy Manager with developing and maintaining the Trust formulary
• To support the Trust with identifying and capitalising on Cost Improvement Programmes.
• To liaise with ICB colleagues with the harmonisation of the Formulary
• To oversee the use of High Cost and PbR Excluded medications.
• The provision of a clinical pharmacy service to patients within the Trust.
• 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.
• The recruitment, management, and development of staff under the postholder.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
• To provide operational and professional leadership in relation to medicines optimisation, promoting evidence-based, cost-effective use of medicines in the Trust
• Actively collaborate with members of the FHFT Drugs & Therapeutics Committee (FHFT DTC) in the implementation and maintenance of the formulary.
• To ensure processes are in place to implement the formulary within the trust, maximising compliance, and its visibility.
• To collaborate with primary care to implement a harmonised formulary across Frimley Health ICB.
• To collaborate with, and provide input into the Frimley Health Medicines Board
• To be the lead pharmacist liaising with the ICB team to improve the use of medicines at the interface between primary and secondary care, actively contributing to minimising variation across the ICB.
• To disseminate the DTC decisions to the Pharmacy Department and wider Trust
• To support the maintenance of the Trust Drug Formulary, so it is accurate and up-to-date following decisions made at both the DTC and MOB meetings.
• To produce drug evaluations for the DTC and MOB as requested by the Clinical Pharmacy Manager. To make recommendations to the directorate concerning the introduction and use of new drugs.
• To ensure close relations cross-site with the pharmacy team across all sites.

This advert closes on Sunday 3 Mar 2024

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