Leeds Formulary Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

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Dave Abbott Highly Advanced Pharmacist - Medicines Advice david.abbott2@nhs.net 0113 2066073

The Leeds Formulary Pharmacist at Leeds Teaching Hospitals is responsible for supporting the safe and timely introduction of new and innovative medicines into practice, as part of our Medicines Advice service. Providing the professional secretary role for the Trust’s Drug and Therapeutics Group, you will help to ensure decision making around new medicines is evidence based, co-ordinated across the Trust and wider ICS, and that the introduction of new medicines is achieved in an efficient, timely and safe manner for the benefit of patients. This will involve working collaboratively with clinical, commissioning and funding teams across the Trust and wider to ensure that these outcomes are achieved.

You will also work within our busy Medicines Advice Service to provide evidence-based answers to questions about medicines to patients, carers and healthcare staff. The post holder will maintain a commitment to an agreed clinical area of pharmacy, and support colleagues to develop their own skills within your areas of expertise.

LTHT is one of the largest acute trusts in England, with Medicines Management and Pharmacy Services (MMPS) being a highly respected and forward-thinking Pharmacy department. Our vision is underpinned by the Trust values; The Leeds Way.

MMPS is recognised in the organisation for our collaborative working and we continuously support our workforce to develop to their potential in delivering the best patient care.

Within the Medicines Advisory Service at LTHT we have our busy enquiry answering service, the medicines safety team, medicines commissioning, primary care interface and formulary management. Working within this friendly team will provide you with insight to these different areas to deliver the best possible outcomes for patients.

Working across the Leeds Formulary Pharmacist role and within Medicines Advice, we're looking for a pharmacist with a broad range of post registration experience, with a post graduate clinical diploma or equivalent, and ideally experience of working within a Medicines Information / Advice service. You will be a good communicator, and able to work well with others across the multidisciplinary team managing complex information in a timely and professional manner. You will be an advocate for the benefits of evidence based practice with the ability to apply these principles to practice, and to teach others.

Please see the attached job description for further information about this vacancy.

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Patient-centred Collaborative Fair Accountable Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values

We’re committed to recruiting exceptional people to deliver outstanding services across Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and helping every colleague reach their full potential. We’re looking for a compassionate, inclusive, and collaborative leader who shares our values and can build strong partnerships. We warmly invite applications from people from a variety of backgrounds and sectors, and are especially keen to hear from individuals from a minority ethnic background. We’re dedicated to creating a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, supported, and has a true sense of belonging, as we work together to deliver the best in healthcare to the people of Leeds and beyond.

To comply with UK Government regulations on Skilled Worker sponsorship, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust is unable to provide sponsorship to applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria or the salary threshold concessions set out under the Skilled Worker visa route. Please take this into consideration before submitting your application. Full guidance on these concessions, including details of who may qualify, can be found here.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registrant of the GPhC

Experience

Essential

• Broad post registration experience in hospital pharmacy department

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.

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St James’s University Hospital

Leeds

West Yorkshire

LS9 7TF

Employer's website

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)