Lead pharmacist- Orthopaedics, Burns & Plastics + RRP £2000

Job summary

Are you looking to progress your career and improve your leadership skills whilst almost maintaining a patient-facing role? We have the job for you! We are expanding our clinical senior team and are looking for an experienced, motivated and dynamic pharmacist to provide clinical expertise and leadership, to our surgical specialties. This will include Orthopaedics, Burns and Plastics. The post holder will work closely with our Lead pharmacist- Surgery to provide a high-quality patient-focused clinical pharmacy service to our Surgery division, developing pharmacy services and mentoring our pharmacists on their foundation pathway.

Main duties of the job

The pharmacist we are looking for will be a strong clinician, organised, hardworking and dedicated with great communication skills and a passion for developing services. You will need to have a Postgraduate Clinical Diploma (or equivalent experience) and ideally be a current non-medical prescriber or willing to work towards the qualification. The role will focus on providing a clinical pharmacy service to surgical wards, continually improving the clinical pharmacy service within our Surgery division whilst also working to develop our foundation and trainee pharmacist workforce.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk