Job Summary
Are you an experienced Clinical Pharmacist looking for a career change or your next challenge in an acute hospital trust? We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our modern purpose-built facilities to help at ESNEFT. This key position will allow a committed and self-motivated Pharmacist to lead our Pharmacy services to medical patients on our Ipswich site. You will be a fully established member of the multi-disciplinary team within medicine, leading that team on a day-to-day basis, but with an opportunity to develop and establish the pharmacy service to the renal specialty. You will be pivotal in developing our clinical service within the speciality, 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. ESNEFT has recently implemented the EPIC electronic patient record which includes electronic prescribing and administration; and a pharmacy stock control system. In addition to our fully automated dispensaries, we host one of the NHS Specialist Pharmacy Service medicines advice sites.

Main Duties of the Job

• Be the Specialist Clinical Pharmacist for Renal services at Ipswich hospital.
• Provide highly specialised clinical pharmacy services to renal patients, optimising patient benefit from treatment and ensuring safe, efficacious, cost-effective use of medicines.
• Play an integral role in supporting the multidisciplinary team in maintaining and developing the renal service.
• Develop working relationships with key personnel at the ICB and NHSE to ensure funding is in place for high cost drugs used within the speciality.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive renal guidelines and generate associated patient supportive materials.
• Clinically screen renal homecare prescriptions.

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 patient. 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.

Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential

• Medicines Management knowledge
• Excellent clinical pharmacy knowledge
• Awareness of clinical governance systems, including NICE and NRLS
• Research and audit practices
• Clinical governance agenda

Desirable

• Knowledge of the National Tariff and processes involved in the funding of high-cost medicines
• Local and national priorities in renal medicine
• Basic understanding of clinical issues relating to theatre practice

Qualifications
Essential

• GPhC registered
• Masters Degree in Pharmacy plus Foundation training or equivalent
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice or clinical equivalent

Desirable

• Non-Medical Prescribing qualification

Experience
Essential

• Previous extensive hospital experience inclusive of Clinical Pharmacy practice
• Previous clinical pharmacy experience of renal patients
• Demonstrated experience of multi-disciplinary working
• Dealing with high risk medicines
• Previous experience of educating and training other staff
• Experience of technical as well as clinical aspects of pharmacy

Desirable

• Previous experience of working with renal patients
• Previous experience with managing and validating homecare

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.