Lead Pharmacist – General Surgical, Vascular & Urology

Job summary

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Clinical Pharmacist in surgery to join our modern purpose-built facilities at ESNEFT. This key position will allow a committed and self-motivated Pharmacist to lead our Pharmacy services to surgical patients on our Colchester site.

You will be a fully established member of the multi-disciplinary team within surgery but with an opportunity to develop and establish the pharmacy service to the urology and vascular surgical specialty. You will be pivotal in developing our clinical service within the speciality and will have responsibility for the provision of Pharmacy parenteral nutrition services including the opportunity to be a part of the multidisciplinary team.

Our friendly pharmacy team are dedicated to nurturing, mentoring and developing our staff to reach their full potential. We provide pharmacy forums and tutorials. We support personal development plans, smart objective setting and opportunities for study.

We are also offering this exciting post to established and experienced Band 7 Pharmacists with the opportunity to develop toward a Band 8a level over fixed period.

ESNEFT is about to embark on a full Trust wide implementation of the Epic electronic patient record which includes electronic prescribing and administration and pharmacy stock control system replacement.

In addition to our fully automated dispensaries, we host one of the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service medicines advice sites and a brand new aseptic facility

Main duties of the job

• Work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary team to ensure medicines optimisation strategies are embedded as part of the surgery practice; minimising drug wastage and managing the use of high-cost medicines accordingly.
• Provide an advanced level clinical pharmacy service to surgical patients in line with the pharmacy Key Performance Indicators (KPI) and agreed clinical standards.
• Provide ongoing clinical support and guidance to pharmacy colleagues contributing to the clinical pharmacy service within surgery.
• Develop clinical pharmacy input into Surgical Services, specifically to urology and vascular patients, and provide departmental leadership into this speciality.
• Be the lead clinical pharmacist in the provision of parenteral nutrition services, in accordance with local and national standards and strategy.
• Oversee and support the implementation of the Trust's Weight Management service for bariatric surgery.

Details about our pharmacy service - https://esneft.pagetiger.com/buqzfou/1

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A

Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

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

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