Job overview

12 month fixed term Maternity Cover 

Join Wye Valley NHS Trust as a Band 8a Senior Pharmacist – Frailty and lead the delivery of specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation services across the Frailty Directorate. Working closely with medical, nursing and pharmacy colleagues, you will champion safe, effective, evidence-based and patient-centred medicines use, support care across hospital and primary care settings, and lead service development, medicines safety, audit and quality improvement. You will also manage and develop junior pharmacy staff and deliver training to multidisciplinary teams. We are looking for a pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council, with significant relevant post-registration clinical experience, a postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experience, and strong communication and leadership skills. You should hold an independent prescribing qualification or be prepared to work towards this within 12 months of starting, with Trust support. The role includes participation in rotational weekend, bank holiday and on-call services.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will: 

•    Lead and support the pharmacy Service provided to the Frailty Directorate
•    Work closely with the consultant workforce, the lead and specialist nurses, and other staff members associated with the pharmacy service to the Frailty Directorate
•    Be responsible for coordinating pharmacy clinical services to the Directorate, oversee and investigate medicines related safety incidents in the Directorate, monitor financial and clinical governance in the Directorate.
•    Lead on evidence-based prescribing advice to ensure effective, appropriate, sustainable, cost-effective and safe use of medicines and promote patient-centred care for all patients. 
•    To lead on guidelines for the prescribing, administration and storage of surgical related medicines to facilitate good practice within the Frailty Directorate, within the Acute Trust and across the primary and secondary care interface. 

•    To provide training and education to all levels of Healthcare professionals in acute and primary care whilst linking into national networks to learn about developments to share across the network. 
•    Be involved in the operational delivery of the clinical pharmacy service at Wye Valley NHS Trust and be a role model to junior pharmacy staff and support their development
•    To support 7-day clinical services to the Trust on a rotational weekend, public holiday and On Call (EDC) rota basis.

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.