Senior Pharmacist for Education and Training

4 weeks ago

Oswestry, Shropshire, United Kingdom Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Full time

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced pharmacist to lead our education and training initiatives, as well as contribute to our governance and quality improvement efforts. As a senior pharmacist, you will be responsible for developing and delivering education and training programs for our pharmacy team, as well as facilitating training and acting as a designated supervisor for trainee and foundation level pharmacists.

Main Responsibilities

  • Develop and deliver education and training programs for pharmacy staff
  • Facilitate training and act as a designated supervisor for trainee and foundation level pharmacists
  • Develop education and training materials, including reports on medicines management, and undertake research and audit to support innovative practice and sustain robust medicines management systems and processes
  • Manage related training provision to all operational staff within the Trust
  • Support the department with clinical activities, ensuring accuracy, legality, safety, and efficacy of prescribed medication in line with local and national procedures
  • Support pharmacy practice-based audit and research within the department
  • Act as an operational lead in any relevant aspects of regulatory audit (internal and external)
  • Support the medication safety agenda, collaborate on monitoring systems, and provide information to support a reduction in avoidable harm resulting from inappropriate medicines use across the Trust
  • Work to deliver the medicines clinical governance plans, which support safe and effective pharmacy and medicines optimization services to patients, involving close liaison with the medicines safety officer and multidisciplinary teams working across the Trust
  • Lead serious incident reviews where appropriate and provide a quality assurance function for incident reviews involving medicines
  • Support multidisciplinary teams to investigate incidents to enable the root cause to be understood and appropriate plans to be established to mitigate future risks

About Us

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the leading orthopaedic hospitals in the country, with some of the highest levels of staff and patient satisfaction, as well as a strong reputation for research and innovation. We are a forward-thinking department that provides an environment that supports innovation, learning, and team working, and encourages individuals to develop in their role.

Person Specification

Essential

  • Master's degree in pharmacy
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent demonstrable experience
  • Registered as a pharmacist with The General Pharmaceutical Council
  • Keeping professionally up to date, including CPD

Desirable

  • Appropriate research qualification, MSc in clinical pharmacy, or PhD
  • Risk management or clinical governance qualification
  • Qualified as a non-medical prescriber
  • Management experience
  • Appropriate teaching qualification, Member of Institute of Learning & Teaching or PGCE
  • Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

Essential

  • Significant and relevant post-registration experience in NHS hospital pharmacy and clinical pharmacy service delivery
  • Experience of medicines-related policy and development
  • Highly experienced as a qualified pharmacist
  • Experience of working across departmental and organization boundaries to deliver specific targets and improve services for patients
  • Working with outside commissioning and quality groups and understanding the requirements for a comprehensive quality and safety agenda
  • Knowledge of financial systems and structures within the NHS
  • Knowledge of regulatory and licensing controls related to medicines
  • Demonstrates knowledge and application of the patient safety agenda relating to medicines

Desirable

  • Experience in wider Trust delivery and implementation of risk reduction strategies, NPSA medication alerts
  • Knowledge of NHS structures for Commissioning and Quality
  • Knowledge systems relating to medicines and patient safety
  • Previous experience as an education and training pharmacist
  • Experience of managing a team
  • Experience of service development

Skills and Competencies

Essential

  • Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for service, including quality and audit
  • Good communication, verbal, and written skills, SOPs & reports
  • Good clinical knowledge backed up by extensive ward/practice-based experience
  • Able to prioritize on workload, delegate appropriately, and manage time effectively
  • Good IT skills, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
  • Evidence of strategic planning ability
  • Able to deal with unpredictable workload, including that associated with on-call
  • Deal calmly and appropriately with emotional situations related to complaints, incidents
  • Use of IT systems to generate reports, analysis, or review of medicine usage

Desirable

  • Knowledge of Codes of Practice/Customer Care/NHS plan for Pharmacy
  • Knowledge of wider NHS agenda and issues
  • Knowledge of Health and Safety at Work, COSHH, National and Local guidelines

Knowledge (including specialist or technical knowledge required)

Essential

  • Good range of pharmaceutical knowledge, especially regarding musculoskeletal disorders
  • Able to interpret complex data
  • Good interpretation of current pharmacy/NHS issues
  • Able to think independently

Personal Qualities

Essential

  • Acts on own initiative with the appropriate level of supervision
  • Able to work under pressure and with variable demands
  • Good team member and a good leader
  • Have good initiative, planning, and time management ability
  • Positive, enthusiastic, and able to demonstrate visionary thinking
  • Works well in multidisciplinary teams

Other

Essential

  • Presentable in a professional setting
  • Able to cope with challenges of managing aspects of Pharmacy services
  • Ability to sustain concentration for long periods

Desirable

  • Driving license
  • Able to work unsocial hours when required

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