Specialist Pharmacist Transplantation and Advanced Heart Failure
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
The closing date is 06 October 2024
Job summary
A unique opportunity has arisen within our pharmacy department to be a part of our specialised Transplantation team of pharmacists.
Royal Papworth Hospital invites you to join our team, providing high quality pharmaceutical care to patients in our specialist cardio-respiratory centre. The pharmacy department sits at the heart of our state-of-the-art, digitally enabled hospital.
In this role, you will provide essential clinical pharmacy services to patients pre heart and lung transplantation surgery, through the pathway from immediate post-operative to discharge care and follow up. You will work closely with the Transplant multi-disciplinary team, attending consultant ward rounds and MDT weekly meetings and contributing to budgetary management with the directorate and finance department staff. The successful candidate will have a background in critical care, surgery, or transplantation.
We welcome diversity in our department and look to celebrate the unique contribution of each team member. As a team we are supportive of flexible and part-time working and would look to agree a working pattern which meets the needs of both the individual and the service.
Main duties of the job
In this role you will:
*Be responsible for the provision of specialist clinical pharmacy services to patients who have been referred for, are being bridged for, or have undergone heart and lung transplantation.
*Promote safe prescribing practice and medicines optimisation by providing expert pharmaceutical advice to transplantation clinicians and other members of the transplant team.
*Monitor and analyse medicines expenditure within the transplant service, and to advise the manager and clinical lead responsible for transplant accordingly.
As a senior member of the pharmacy department, you will line manage a small number of pharmacists. We are dedicated to the development of line managers, providing access to leadership development programmes to enhance management and leadership skills.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
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Date posted
11 September 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£53,755 to £60,504 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time, Job share
Reference number
175-2425-1-859PH
Job locations
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Employer's website
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