Pharmacist with interest in Frailty
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Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a pharmacist with a special interest in Frailty to join the Integrated Frailty Liaison Team at Wexham Park Hospital permanently. This is a role in which you can develop your specialist pharmacy skillset and advance your clinical skills work working closely with the acute frailty Liaison Team.
As a Specialist Pharmacist, you will spend time in a patient-facing role enhancing your clinical skills. You will gain experience in treating a range of complex patients with multiple co-morbidities. You will work closely with the rest of the clinical pharmacy team, with access to a range of specialist pharmacists.
Frailty team is at the forefront of aligning with the national strategy for improving upon the existing processes involved in the identification of frailty and in the coordination of care between different Community and hospital teams to deliver better experiences and outcomes for our patients.
Main duties of the job
The Frailty Service provides a front door assessment service including the development of comprehensive geriatric assessments and complex care plans to support admission avoidance, reduce length of stay and avoid unnecessary readmissions for individuals living with frailty.
To provide high quality innovative clinical practice , be proactive in clinical decision making, underpinned by an advanced level of theoretical and practical knowledge, and be able to demonstrate improved patient care outcomes.
Our service is 7 days a week and you will be part of the Pharmacy On-call service
For further information about this role please see the Job Description document attached.
If you have any further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.
About us
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
Details
Date posted
30 January 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£52,963 to £59,360 a year Per annum incl of HCAS
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time
Reference number
151-DV00318-A
Job locations
Wexham Park
Wexham Street
Slough
SL2 4HL
Employer details
Employer name
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Wexham Park
Wexham Street
Slough
SL2 4HL
Employer's website
https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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