Job summary
Step into a transformative leadership role at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust as Principal Pharmacist for Haematology. You'll inspire pharmacy teams, champion innovative clinical services, and drive positive change across multiple sites and gain aseptics experience in our new aseptic unit, which is currently in the design stages.

This is your chance to shape patient care, mentor future leaders, and collaborate with passionate professionals. Your expertise will set new standards in medicines optimisation and service excellence.

If you're ready to make a lasting impact on haematology in a forward-thinking, supportive environment, we're excited to welcome your ambition and vision!

Main duties of the job

• To develop the clinical pharmacy service to patients within haematology areas across the Trust.
• To share the day-to-day running of pharmacy clinical services to the haematology areas at Frimley Health Foundation Trust (FHFT).
• To support the training and development of pharmacist independent prescribers.
• To act as a role model in the field of clinical pharmacy practice and provide a consistently high standard of clinical service in line with the pharmacy objectives.
• The recruitment, management, and development of staff under the postholder.
• To become competent in completing tasks relating to the maintenance of the Pharmaceutical Quality Management System for aseptic services.
• To provide resilience to the aseptic team, especially the Preparative Services Pharmacy Manager in understanding GMP principles and Annex 1.

About us
The Frimley Health Pharmacy Department is a forward-thinking department with many innovative practices across the team. The department has an ambitious plan to deliver excellent and high quality pharmacy services to its patients and to develop the pharmacy team.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Job responsibilities

• To support the Preparative Services Pharmacy Manager with the day-to-day running of the pharmacy services to the haematology and aseptic teams across FHFT - this will include at least two days a week at each site.
• To ensure close relations with the pharmacy haematology and oncology team across all sites.
• To work closely with the Preparative Services Pharmacy Manager, clinicians, Principal Pharmacists and senior managers, to develop pharmaceutical services to haematology and aseptics across the Trust at all sites.
• To promote and develop the use of Independent Prescribing by pharmacists in the delivery of care across the Trust
• To fulfil the role of an Independent Prescribing Pharmacist within the individuals area of competence, including medicines reconciliation on admission and prescribing of currently prescribed medicines on discharge.
• To share in the management of delivering the clinical pharmacy service to haematology.
• To ensure the service is according to departmental procedures and meets the minimum standards agreed with the Preparative Services Pharmacy Manager. The service provided will take current legislation into account, including GMP and Annex 1.
• To provide strategic clinical pharmacy input into medication error reduction processes within the Trust.
• To liaise closely with the Clinical Pharmacy Manager and Preparative Services Pharmacy Manager to ensure appropriate actions are taken to comply with Patient Safety Alerts, National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), or successor organisations, guidance and Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessments.
• To help develop and promote suitable shared care arrangements for medicines between hospital and primary care by providing relevant information to patients and health care workers, leading for the specialty.
• To share in leading the haematology department in supporting the delivery of services to outpatients within the specialty, whether in clinics, day units or homecare.
• To take an active role in committees relating to specialist area- e.g. clinical governance.

Person Specification
Special Requirements
Essential

• Able to work at weekends and to participate in Bank Holiday working

Desirable

• Ability to be able to travel between sites

Qualifications
Essential

• Registered with GPhC
• Postgraduate clinical diploma or equivalent
• Registered Independent Prescriber
• Evidence of Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
• Pharmacy degree (master's level, 4 years)
• Formal leadership and management qualification

Desirable

• Member of Royal College of Pharmacy
• Member of BOPA

Specific Competencies
Essential

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability and confidence to communicate with a wide range of customers, from patient to hospital consultant, including presentation skills
• Ability to compile reports /cases where data is presented effectively based on evidence based information
• Analytical skills
• Ability to recognise areas for development of current practice
• Ability to prioritise workload and work to deadlines

Desirable

• Innovative
• Excellent IT Skills
• Evidence of interest in research

PROFESSIONAL/ SPECIALIST/ FUNCTIONAL EXPERIENCE
Essential

• Significant post registration hospital experience including extensive experience of working as a clinical practitioner in an acute hospital setting
• Experience in delivering professional training and education
• Experience of staff management and giving staff developmental feedback
• Leadership experience within a pharmacy service, including organising a service on a day-to-day basis
• Experience of working in committees and multidisciplinary groups including guideline review & creation
• Experience in the provision of clinical pharmacy to haematology services
• Experience of change management

Desirable

• Service development
• Critical evaluation skills
• Management Training

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme.