Job Introduction
Are you a highly motivated Pharmacist looking for a new and exciting challenge?
Our Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES) and Wiltshire team are looking for a dedicated Pharmacist to join them part-time (20 hours per week) to take on an exciting new challenge in Medicines Management!
Our Medicine Management team deliver services to support care for people in social and community health settings for a variety of services including community hospitals, children’s services and home care, which encompasses Hospital@home, community nursing and social care where you will have responsibility for progressing Medicines Optimisation, governance, and safety within the pharmacy team.
You will be based at our St Martin’s Hospital, Bath site but you will be required to travel to other sites as part of the role. As a result, a driving license and access to a car will be vital criteria for this role.
We welcome applications from pharmacists working in hospital and primary care sectors including community pharmacy.
Interviews are due to take place Friday 16th August
For more information please contact Alison Dorey at Alison.Dorey@hcrgcaregroup.com or at 07974104304
Main Responsibility
You will promote medicines optimisation and the delivery of high quality, safe and cost-effective prescribing and medicines use across BaNES and Wiltshire. You will assist the Lead Pharmacist to plan and deliver key clinical projects and Medicines Safety Improvement programmes.
- Provide prescribing, therapeutics, and medicines-related support to deliver medicines governance.
- Work with the clinical pharmacists on the inpatient wards, and the healthcare community teams to improve medicines safety and medicines optimisation.
- Support the lead pharmacist to ensure all services comply with the requirements of the Home Office Controlled drugs licence.
- Support compliance with legal and regulatory Medicine legislations and medicines management frameworks including NICE, NPSA, and MHRA (including drug recalls).
- Undertake and facilitate medicines audit to measure and improve robust medicines management systems and processes.
- Support quality initiatives identified to educate and inform operational colleagues about quality, safety and governance.
- Lead on development and review of medicines management policies, associated local procedures and PGDs.
For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached job description
The Ideal Candidate
Our ideal candidate will have:
- Pharmacist registered with General Pharmaceutical Council
- Evidence of Continuous Development
- Post-registration experience in hospital or community pharmacy.
- Understand clinical governance and quality improvement
- Able to record, interpret and monitor data including ePACT data and respond accordingly.
- Driving License and access to a car for work purposes.
- Proven experience of using audit to effect service improvement
- Experience of medicines related policy and development
For a full list of criteria please see the attached job description
Package Description
As a Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist, you will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £43,742 - £50,056 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
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To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2
