Highly Specialist Pharmacist, Cardiology

The postholder will supervise, support, and develop other pharmacy staff, in particular junior pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists, and other Trust personnel as required., Applicants will work autonomously, be a team player whilst motivating others, also provide cross-cover to other areas within the Specialist team on a reciprocal basis.

You will support clinical governance within the Division and Trust developing & implement PGDs, policies, SOPs , clinical guidelines.

Support pharmacy provision for inpatients with the Principal Pharmacist, Medicine. Working along with the other 8A pharmacists in Medicine to develop and implement a shared vision, and develop your junior colleagues reach their full potential, acting as a mentor, and the team as a whole whilst supporting their professional development.

Opportunities to influence prescribing costs contributing to cost improvements, ensuring optimal use of Trust monies, for person-centred, evidence-based structured medication reviews; to ensure appropriate, cost-effective and safe care.

Close working with the multi-disciplinary team, which may include attendance atMDT meetings. Interacting with a wide variety of health/social care professionals to deliver a holistic approach to healthcare at WWL.

Participate in departmental and clinical audit to improve practice, patient outcomes and efficiency.

In summary, this is an exciting post that will enable you to use your specialist skills to support the department and Trusts vision, and deliver excellent care. You will be joining a friendly team with the opportunity to develop both professionally and personally, and supporting others to do the same.

We have an exciting career opportunity for an experienced, skilled, enthusiastic & forward-thinking pharmacist to join our dynamic team.

Are you equipped with ideas to support the development of existing and future pharmacy services?

Are you an experienced pharmacist ready to work with us to deliver the pharmacy service to within a given specialty. Working with the MDT to deliver best practice care to our patients and ensure optimal governance processed. There are currently a range of specialties available for you to own.

The post offers a skilled post-diploma clinical pharmacist the opportunity to deliver and further develop pharmacy services within their specialty, and help to shape the our pharmacy staff of the future.

You should have experience of pro-actively influencing prescribing within a secondary care environment, hold a post-graduate clinical diploma and ideally an independent prescribing qualification, and above all, be a team player.

We are committed to achieving a balance between high quality service delivery and professional development. We can offer you a supportive and training-focused environment, within a friendly team. To achieve this we actively encourage professional development opportunities and further qualifications.

Choose Well - Choose WWL

Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values 'the WWL Way'.

WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.