Job overview

This is a great time to join our forward-thinking and innovative pharmacy team. We are developing our specialist pharmacist team and invite applications for Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Surgery.
You will have an impressive track record as a clinical pharmacist, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. We offer a fulfilling role, in a friendly and collaborative department with opportunities for development.

Our location is close to the country’s most beautiful beaches and the broads national park, an area of outstanding natural beauty. Kings Lynn and the surrounding areas offer great places to live whether you enjoy our beautiful coast and beaches, rural villages or city living.

Our Trust is offering a financial incentive of a £2000 welcome incentive for this post, subject to terms and conditions. Further details of this incentive can be discussed at interview.

Main duties of the job

You will develop the specialist clinical pharmacy service to our surgical wards and management of total parental nutrition ensuring the safe, clinical and cost effective use of medicines.

You will effectively communicate with the pharmacy team and healthcare professionals to provide quality care, education, clinical supervision and mentoring. You will contribute to clinical pharmacy audit and practice research.

http://www.qehkl.nhs.uk/pharmacy.asp

Working for our organisation

The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King’s Lynn is located near some of the most beautiful scenery in the UK, along the north Norfolk coast, and not far from Sandringham House.

We provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based healthcare services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire.

We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers, approximately 530 beds, and a helipad for air ambulances. We work with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services, including as part of regional partnership and network models of care, such as the trauma network.

In February 2022 the significant progress that has been made at QEH was recognised by the Care Quality Commission who rated the Trust as ‘Good’ in all of the core services they inspected. They recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please access the attached Candidate Pack which introduces #TeamQE, our Pharmacy Department and the advantages of living and working in Kings Lynn/West Norfolk.

Our Trust offers onsite accommodation and parking. Kings Lynn railway station makes community from the Cambridge area accessible. Direct buses from Kings Lynn bus station serve the hospital.

See the attached Job Description  for further information about this role. The Job Description includes the Person Specification for use during shortlisting and interview.

For an informal discussion about this post contact Taner Zor [email protected]

Person specification

Qualifications/training and professional development

Essential criteria

• Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical or Technical Pharmacy or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Registered as a pharmacist with The General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable criteria

• MSc in Clinical or Technical Pharmacy
• Independent prescribing qualification
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

Essential criteria

• Extensive post-registration experience with substantial hospital experience
• Experience of multidisciplinary team working
• Experience in providing and evaluating pharmacy education & training including mentorship
• Experience of managing or supervising other staff
• Experience of implementing and/or reviewing policies, guidelines, PGDs or equivalent
• Evidence of on-going CPD

Desirable criteria

• Experience in the provision of pharmacy expertise to the clinical governance agenda
• Experience of providing post-graduate level training and/or education
• Experience of managing the entry of new medicines into a hospital formulary
• Experience of budgetary responsibility and/or experience with high cost drugs
• Extensive experience providing a pharmacy clinical service to patients in an range of Women & Children sub-specialities

Skills, abilities, and knowledge

Essential criteria

• Able to communicate effectively with a wide range of healthcare professionals and patients
• Able to provide expert advice on the use of medicines to treat patients within a specialist area
• Able to manage difficult or ambiguous situations
• Able to manage time effectively and meet tight deadlines
• Able to prioritise and manage workload
• Able to demonstrate an advanced level of reasoning and judgment
• Able to present complex information to a large groups of staff
• Able to train and supervise staff
• Able to undertake prescription review of complex medication regimes
• Attention to detail
• Good problem solving skills
• Proficient computer skills

Knowledge/Understanding

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of how the delivery of the clinical pharmacy service must pre-meet the needs of local and national priorities
• Knowledge of pharmacy based computer systems

Desirable criteria

• Highly specialised knowledge of the treatment of patients in a range of Women & Children sub-specialities

Other requirements

Essential criteria

• Takes responsibility for own actions and promotes positive team working ethic
• Shares information and good practice appropriately
• Treats others with courtesy and respect at all times
• Maintains high levels of concentration for prolonged periods of time
• Excellent verbal and written skills

Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race ,ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values.