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Location

Carshalton, Greater London | United Kingdom

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Job description

A Vacancy at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust.

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced hospital pharmacist with a passion for critical care to join our team. We are looking for someone with proven clinical skills, initiative and excellent communication skills to join our team to provide a high quality specialist service to intensive care and support the surgical care of our patients.

You will spend a considerable portion of the day on ICU, working closely with the multidisciplinary team, attending the multidisciplinary ward round and providing pharmacy support and advice. You will also be involved in the development of Trustwide treatment guidelines and protocols, divisional reporting, clinical audit, risk management and multi-professional teaching. You will represent pharmacy in the adult nutrition team and provide cover when required for paediatric and neonatal PN.

As the 8a for critical care, based at St Helier, you will line manage the Band 7 rotational pharmacists HDU/surgical (based at Epsom hospital) and the pharmacy team supporting critical care and surgery on both sites. You will work closely with the Lead Pharmacist Planned and Critical Care to lead on dissemination of critical care and surgical issues across the Trust.

The post includes participation in the late duty, weekend, bank holiday and on-call (EDC) rotas.

As you know, here at Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust, we are always looking to grow our teams with talented people, just like you.

That’s why; we are excited to announce that an additional one-off financial benefit of £1000, in addition to their salary, will be offered to the successful candidate appointed into this role. The welcome bonus is not applicable to internal candidates.

• To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to designated wards in conjunction with other clinical and junior pharmacists.
• To provide advice and day to day clinical supervision for the pharmacy team working in Critical Care and Surgery promoting evidence-based, cost-effective use of medicines
• To promote safe, responsible, cost effective prescribing and usage of medicines, in line with the formulary, to optimise clinical outcomes and minimise adverse reactions and errors.
• To lead and manage other pharmacy staff working in the Critical Care and Surgery team to ensure service delivery to agreed standards in line with business planning requirements.
• To liaise with appropriate MDT colleagues to ensure the implementation of National/Local guidelines related to medicines to optimise patient care and promote best practice.
• To work with senior pharmacy management team to monitor and evaluate medicines expenditure across the Trust, identifying and putting plans in place to address cost pressures and Cost Improvement Plans

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.

This advert closes on Monday 4 Mar 2024

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