We're looking for a dynamic, forward-thinking pharmacist to lead and shape our Medicone pharmacy service at Royal Surrey County Hospital. This is a rare chance to take on a high-profile clinical leadership role at the heart of a well-established and supportive Multidisciplinary Team.
You will work directly alongside your fellow lead pharmacists to ensure that our Pharmacy strategy is met.
Whether you're already an experience specialist pharmacist looking for a change of direction or a band 7 looking to take the next step we look forward to hearing from you.
What we are looking for:Essential:
- MPharm or equivalent; GPhC registered
- Post-registration Clinical Diploma or equivalent
- Broad post-registration clinical pharmacy experience, ideally in an acute setting
- Demonstrable knowledge of Acute medicine and specialities within this e.g. Cardiology, Respiratory and Gastroenterology.
- Experience of developing medicines policies, leading teams, and working across multidisciplinary settings
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills able to convey complex clinical information clearly to a range of audiences
Leading on safe, cost-effective prescribing across the specialty, including monitoring drug usage, expenditure, and biosimilar switching
Developing and implementing prescribing guidelines, policies, and protocols for the department
Representing pharmacy at governance and service / finance meetings
Acting as a clinical role model supporting, mentoring, and educating junior pharmacists, rotational staff, and other healthcare professionals
If you are a registered prescriber we will support you using this qualification. If not we will support you to gain Independent prescribing status
Driving service development and innovation, with the opportunity to participate in research and audit
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5,000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing programme alongside a strong commitment to developing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family ensures you feel valued from your initial interview and throughout your time with us.
We are clinically led and provide joined-up care by bridging hospital and community services, alongside delivering regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford, with community sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh, and services delivered in patients’ homes across Guildford and Waverley.
We work in partnership with Ashford & St Peter’s Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust through a collaborative Group Model, supporting joined-up services, workforce flexibility and development opportunities.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated us as Outstanding. We are proud of our achievements and continue to invest in our people and infrastructure.
To learn more about life at Royal Surrey, please watch our short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo
Adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
- Provide an exemplar ward based clinical pharmacist service to the acute medical unit; the post holder will partake in and develop the pharmacist role in post-take ward rounds at the trust to interdict inappropriate prescribing. To provide clinical pharmacy services to other wards within the speciality as the need arises.
- Responsible for leading, developing and evaluating the delivery of clinical pharmacy services to the division within the direction of the Principal Pharmacist and Deputy Chief Pharmacist.
- The post holder has responsibility for leadership and management of the acute medicine service under the direction of the Principal Pharmacist for the acute medicine specialities at RSCH (emergency medicine, acute medicine, medical-SDEC, respiratory, cardiology, gastroenterology and general medical ward(s)).
- Lead and manage the clinical pharmacy service to the speciality business unit in collaboration with the Principal Pharmacist.
- To be an integral part of the relevant MDTs.
- To provide specialist in-house teaching relating to the specialty to Trust staff and to rotational pharmacists undertaking the Certificate or Diploma in pharmacy practice.
- Responsible for reviewing and writing procedures, policies and guidelines relating to the relevant specialty having an impact on staff within pharmacy and the wider Trust.
- Responsible for reviewing and writing procedures, policies and guidelines relation to the pharmacy services within the division.
- Post holder may be required to tutor a pharmacist undertaking the Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice.
- Post holder may be required to tutor a trainee pharmacist as the need arises as either Designated Supervisor (DS) or Designated Pharmacist Practitioner (DPP).
