Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Gastroenterology

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitals are seeking an experienced and enthusiastic Lead Clinical Pharmacist to steer our gastroenterology pharmacy service.

This role focuses on the leadership of our pharmacy service for delivering cost-effective treatments, actively switching to biosimilar treatments, support to inpatient gastroenterology wards, incorporating quality improvement methodologies to demonstrate patient benefits and broader impacts on the multi-disciplinary team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead cost-effective utilisation of medicines including biosimilar medicines in gastroenterology.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams to provide high-quality care to gastroenterology patients, adhering to national, regional, and local guidelines.

• Lead the inpatient delivery of ward pharmacy services on gastroenterology wards.

• Identify and develop service improvement models to enhance medicine optimisation for gastroenterology patients.

• Provide leadership around medicines governance.

Join us and be part of a collaborative team dedicated to delivering optimal pharmaceutical care to our patients. This is your chance to make a significant impact within a forward-thinking healthcare setting.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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