Job summary
Are you looking for a rewarding and challenging role with a work-life balance in a job that won't have weekend, on-call or bank holiday working commitments? Are you proactive, flexible, agile in your work approach? If so, we're looking for you to join our well-respected medicines management team to lead on Antimicrobial Stewardship across the Trust and be the Medicines Management lead for allocated areas of responsibility, delivering a specialist clinical pharmacy service to our Intermediate Care Units.
We use Electronic Prescribing & Medicines Administration (EPMA) within our Intermediate Care Units (training provided). You'll attend multidisciplinary meetings such as our Medicines Safety & Governance Group and work in close partnership with the Trust's Infection Prevention & Control team, representing the medicines management on other multidisciplinary groups.
We're committed to ensure our pharmacists who wish to gain an independent prescribing qualification are given the opportunity to do so in a fair and equitable way. Full time hours are 37.5 hours per week (general office hours) Flexible working arrangements may be discussed but will require you to work a minimum 22.5 hours per week over 3 days as well as hybrid working and/or split roles within the Trust.
The role involves a regular presence at both Crawley and Brighton General Hospital sites but we're flexible around base with various locations across Sussex including Worthing, Horsham and Lewes.
Main duties of the job
You will work with other pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and assistants, as well as other members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure the delivery of a high quality and effective medicines management service to all our adult inpatient bedded units. You will be involved in the development of pharmacy staff and service to the bedded units.You will work in the pharmacy dispensary regularly to provide senior support.
You will take the lead role within the Medicines Management Team, across the whole of Trust, for the particular areas of Antimicrobial Stewardship, injectables, patient group directions, occupational health and wound-care in accordance with experience, previous knowledge and personal development plan. This may include developing policy and service developments.
You will require excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills, together with good clinical skills and knowledge. The ability to travel within the Trust's foot-print is essential.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Medicines Management team is ambitious for its service and staff. We are supporting foundation pharmacist trainees and pre-registration pharmacy technicians. We have supported some of our pharmacists to gain a prescribing qualification or management qualifications.
The Medicines Management Team provides input into a range of medicines optimisation services including to Rheumatology, Children and Young People and Pro-active care, Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes, Virtual Wards and this supports developmental and learning as well as progression opportunities.
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Medicines Management team is ambitious for its service and staff. We are supporting foundation pharmacist trainees and pre-registration pharmacy technicians. We have supported some of our pharmacists to gain a prescribing qualification or management qualifications.
The Medicines Management Team provides input into a range of medicines optimisation services including to Rheumatology, Children and Young People and Pro-active care, Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes, Virtual Wards and this supports developmental and learning as well as progression opportunities.
See attached Job Description and Person Specification for further information
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree MPharm
- Registered pharmacist (1 year competency assessed and examined) professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) UK.
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable
- MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
- Non-Medical Prescriber
Experience
Essential
- At least 5 years relevant post-registration experience
- Providing clinical pharmacy services within an acute setting or similar setting with direct patient contact.
- Clinical audits. Full audit cycle. Plan, organise the collection of data, analyse data, findings, recommendations and audit report writing. Follow-ups
- Experience of writing policies, procedures and protocols
- Broad specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge
- Experience implementing national guidance and strategy relating to medicines
- Ability to demonstrate evidence of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience of implementing clinical governance and continuous improvement.
- Developing and delivering medicines management training to other healthcare professionals.
- Involved in identifying and assessing risk to improve patient safety
- Familiarity with the concepts of evidence based medicines.
- Expertise of addressing and resolving legal issues related to medicines.
- Addressing, implementing and monitoring compliance with NHS Improvement Patient Safety Alerts related to medicines
Desirable
- Experience of working with older people with complex health needs as a clinical pharmacist.
- Working with a community health services setting
- Experience of provision of medicines information and associated systems.
- Developing and undertaking clinical and non-clinical audits.
- Antimicrobial Stewardship knowledge and experience on relevant areas of community health services
- Developing and writing patient group directions (PGDs)
- Managing or advising on drug budgets and drugs costs and how to monitor these
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to assimilate, analyse and interpret complex data to assess risks and improve patient safety
- Critical appraisal skills
- Ability to communicate effectively and develop effective working relationships at all levels
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Ability to challenge
- Ability to work under pressure and be able to make important decisions in pressured situations.
- Ability to prioritise and manage own work and deliver within identified timelines.
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to apply sound professional judgement to legal and ethical issues
- Effective influencing and negotiation skills and ability to persuade others
- The ability to research and analyse complex information, judging the input required to arrive at robust and accurate conclusions and using these conclusions to inform decision-making
- Computer skills including spreadsheets, presentations, or ECDL
- Self-motivated and able to initiate change.
- Methodological approach and attention to detail in terms of medicines.
- Ability to write reports, SOP and other documents
Desirable
- Ability to generate prescribing data using epact.net
Other Requirements
Essential
- Requirement to travel cost effectively across the area covered by Sussex Community NHS Trust
- Able to cope with interruptions when busy
Desirable
- Able to concentrate for extended periods
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree MPharm
- Registered pharmacist (1 year competency assessed and examined) professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) UK.
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable
- MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
- Non-Medical Prescriber
Experience
Essential
- At least 5 years relevant post-registration experience
- Providing clinical pharmacy services within an acute setting or similar setting with direct patient contact.
- Clinical audits. Full audit cycle. Plan, organise the collection of data, analyse data, findings, recommendations and audit report writing. Follow-ups
- Experience of writing policies, procedures and protocols
- Broad specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge
- Experience implementing national guidance and strategy relating to medicines
- Ability to demonstrate evidence of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
- Experience of implementing clinical governance and continuous improvement.
- Developing and delivering medicines management training to other healthcare professionals.
- Involved in identifying and assessing risk to improve patient safety
- Familiarity with the concepts of evidence based medicines.
- Expertise of addressing and resolving legal issues related to medicines.
- Addressing, implementing and monitoring compliance with NHS Improvement Patient Safety Alerts related to medicines
Desirable
- Experience of working with older people with complex health needs as a clinical pharmacist.
- Working with a community health services setting
- Experience of provision of medicines information and associated systems.
- Developing and undertaking clinical and non-clinical audits.
- Antimicrobial Stewardship knowledge and experience on relevant areas of community health services
- Developing and writing patient group directions (PGDs)
- Managing or advising on drug budgets and drugs costs and how to monitor these
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent organisational skills
- Ability to assimilate, analyse and interpret complex data to assess risks and improve patient safety
- Critical appraisal skills
- Ability to communicate effectively and develop effective working relationships at all levels
- Ability to work independently and within a team
- Ability to challenge
- Ability to work under pressure and be able to make important decisions in pressured situations.
- Ability to prioritise and manage own work and deliver within identified timelines.
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to apply sound professional judgement to legal and ethical issues
- Effective influencing and negotiation skills and ability to persuade others
- The ability to research and analyse complex information, judging the input required to arrive at robust and accurate conclusions and using these conclusions to inform decision-making
- Computer skills including spreadsheets, presentations, or ECDL
- Self-motivated and able to initiate change.
- Methodological approach and attention to detail in terms of medicines.
- Ability to write reports, SOP and other documents
Desirable
- Ability to generate prescribing data using epact.net
Other Requirements
Essential
- Requirement to travel cost effectively across the area covered by Sussex Community NHS Trust
- Able to cope with interruptions when busy
Desirable
- Able to concentrate for extended periods
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
