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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Participate in weekend and bank holiday working on a rota basis)
Job ref
229-CS-6141563
Employer
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Hereford County Hospital
Town
Hereford
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/05/2024 23:59

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Wye Valley NHS Trust logo

Senior Pharmacist - Elective Surgical Hub & Ortho (RRP)

Band 8a

Job overview

**RELOCATION EXPENSES AVAILABLE**

This post will attract a Recruitment and Retention Premia** totalling £5,000 (payable in instalments over 2 years), plus a relocation package of up to £8,000 (subject to eligibility criteria).  The RRP payment will be pro-rata for part-time employees.

We support flexible working options at Wye Valley and welcome applications for part-time and full-time positions.

** For further information and terms around RRP and relocation, please contact: [email protected]

Wye Valley NHS Trust is currently in the process of building three new day case theatres. This is an exciting venture and will support the Trust in addressing waiting times for the patients of Herefordshire and beyond. To find out more please click on the following link https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/work-with-us/elective-surgical-hub.aspx

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Pharmacist with an interest in Head, Neck and Orthopaedics. The post involves leading the provision of medicines optimisation to our Head, Neck and Orthopaedics teams in a varied and dynamic division.

The successful candidate will work closely with the ward based teams implementing the principles of the modern day ward round, using skills, knowledge and experience to directly impact on patient care.

Main duties of the job

Wye Valley NHS Trust has invested £21 million for a new modern Elective Surgical Hub to support the National elective recovery plan, to be opened in July 2024. This includes 2 new day case surgery theatres and an ophthalmology theatre, to reduce long waiting lists for elective care. The Senior Pharmacist role will be imperative to setting up a new pharmacy service to the Hub for discharge at ward level and seamless throughput.

The post holder will split their time focused towards the Elective Surgical Hub and to the Head Neck and Orthopaedic Directorate, which involves clinical cover to Orthopaedics, elective and trauma.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

 Please click on the attached job description and person specification for more information on the role and responsibilities.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • MPharm & registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacist
  • Post graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experience to a similar level
  • Independent Prescribing Qualification or prepared to be working towards this
  • Evidence of CPD and study beyond registration in line with requirements for revalidation and demonstrating commitment to lifelong learning.
Desirable criteria
  • Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
  • Post Graduate Leadership Qualification

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Able to process complex clinical information in an accurate and timely manner
  • Able to communicate effectively using a variety of methods (written, verbal, presentation) with a wide range of people across the organisation.
  • Demonstrate a clear understanding of best practice and legal requirements relating to medicines storage, prescribing and administration
  • Able to demonstrate a clear understanding of clinical pharmacy practice relating to Surgical
  • Ability to influence, engage and motivate others with an empathic/reassuring manner

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant post registration experience in a hospital / primary care pharmacy setting with a proportion of time in a clinical role
  • Experience in motivating teams
  • Experience in influencing multi professional teams to achieve medicines optimisation
  • Proven experience of creating and delivering training packages to multidisciplinary groups

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Kate Leonardo
Job title
Lead Pharmacist for Surgical Division
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01432 364424
Additional information

via Trust Switchboard: ext: 2211

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