Join Frimley Health as a Lead Acute Medicine Pharmacist!
Join our dynamic team at the Acute Medicine wards of Frimley Park Hospital for an exciting opportunity as a Lead Pharmacist in Acute Medicine. We're seeking an enthusiastic, experienced pharmacist to take charge and support our Acute Medical wards.
In this role, you'll provide clinical pharmacy leadership to our medical and nursing teams, ensuring safe and cost-effective pharmaceutical care for our patients. You'll play a key role in facilitating smooth patient discharge and transfers, including prescribing discharge prescriptions. Your responsibilities will also include active participation in multidisciplinary ward rounds and the ongoing development of our clinical pharmacy service.
We're looking for someone who has completed their clinical diploma or equivalent, possesses Independent Prescribing qualifications, and is dedicated to continuous professional development. Hospital pharmacy experience, particularly in clinical pharmacy and teaching, is essential. Strong communication, interpersonal, and motivational skills are a must, as is the ability to work effectively within a team. As a senior clinical pharmacist, you'll serve as a role model for junior staff, demonstrating confidence and expertise in your field.
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Frimley Park Hospital:
Under the direction of the Principal Pharmacist Acute Medicine and other senior pharmacists, the post holder will:
- To provide clinical pharmacy leadership to medical, nursing and other staff on Acute Medicine and Emergency Department (ED) to ensure safe and cost-effective pharmaceutical care for patients. To facilitate the smooth and efficient discharge and transfer of patients regarding their medication.
- To actively participate in Acute Medicine ward rounds, and post take rounds with Multi-Disciplinary Teams (MDT).
- Supervise Medicines Management Technicians (MMTs) within the medical directorate, working to corporate pharmacy objectives in promoting and maintaining high standards of medicine use within the Trust.
- To maintain or develop an area of special clinical interest, and to provide leadership to the department in this specialist area.
- To undertake audit and review clinical practices to affect positive change in medicines management.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sonia Sunny Babu Job title: Principal Pharmacist for Acute Medicine Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 0300 6153189
