Job summary
We are recruiting for a Pharmacist with knowledge in Critical Care and who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are looking for a dynamic, motivated, and forward-thinking clinical pharmacist to work with the Critical Care Directorate and clinical pharmacy team. You will be responsible for providing leadership and delivery of a high quality, proactive and patient focused clinical pharmacy service.

The post holder will attend ward rounds on Critical Care and use their independent prescribing qualification (where applicable) to optimise patient care. There is true multidisciplinary interaction in this role.

The successful candidate will support surgical specialties as and when needed as well. This is a great opportunity to enhance leadership skills and provide operational support to the Team Lead.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

• To lead, deliver and continue to develop a high quality pharmacy service to Critical Care & Theatres, and surgical wards ensuring medicines optimisation and compliance with medicines regulation.
• Play an integral role in the multidisciplinary team that delivers a high quality clinical service to patients in critical care. This will include regular attendance of consultant-led ward rounds, independently prescribing to optimise individual patients' medicines and leading a team of junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to deliver an effective pharmacy service.
• Provide support to the Pharmacist Manager in delivering an effective, efficient, robust and sustainable clinical pharmacy service to the Trust's planned division.
• Engage with stakeholders in the local ICS to ensure all possible opportunities to improve patient care are identified and delivered. This will include integration with neighbouring Trusts and community healthcare providers.
• To be an Independent Prescribing Pharmacist within East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust working in accordance with the Trusts Non-medical prescribing policy as approved by therapeutics Policy Committee (TPC).

About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:
The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
Hertford County, Hertford
Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Qualifications/Training
Essential

• Masters Degree MPharm
• Registered with the GPhC as a pharmacist
• Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
• Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent (completed both year 1 and year 2)

Desirable

• Qualified and registered as a non-medical prescriber (or working towards completion of NMP qualification)
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Previous Experience
Essential

• Relevant post registration experience in hospital pharmacy and Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice
• Supervision of staff
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience in documenting in medical notes
• Training of pre-reg pharmacists and junior staff
• Proven experience of audit

Desirable

• Project management and report writing
• Experience in writing policies/guidelines/PGDs
• Management of staff
• Tutoring of post graduate trainee pharmacists or pre-reg pharmacists
• Ability to take initiative and lead on projects including change management
• Service improvement projects

Skills
Essential

• Good communication skills
• Ability to motivate others
• Able to negotiate with staff at all levels
• Able to use initiative
• Good organisational skills
• Able to work with minimal supervision
• Ability to manage own time

Desirable

• Ability to remain calm and work effectively under pressure and to deadlines
• Proven ability to teach a range of staff groups

Knowledge
Essential

• Excellent general medicine clinical knowledge
• Able to use clinical knowledge at senior level
• Specialised knowledge of drugs used and therapeutic trends within specialised area
• Knowledge of healthcare systems, guidance and NHS change
• Able to critically appraise research data
• Knowledge of post graduate education for pharmacists
• Confident user of Excel, Microsoft Word and Powerpoint

Other Requirements
Essential

• Professional attitude
• Enthusiastic
• Conscientious and reliable
• Team player
• Neat and tidy appearance
• Flexible
• Innovative
• Polite and courteous
• Self-motivating
• Experience of communication with consultants Able to demonstrate reflective practice
• Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
• Role model our Trust values every day
• Include
• Respect
• Improve

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.