Lead Pharmacist - Antimicrobial

The friendly supportive team at this strongly innovative 'UK Top 40' award-winning and CQC "Outstanding" NHS Foundation Trust, has an exceptional and exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic pharmacist to develop and take on a lead pharmacist role.

The role will require the individual to lead the pharmacy service within the trusts Antimicrobial Stewardship Agenda and work closely with the wider AMS team to deliver on trust and national objectives. You will have opportunities to network at a trust level whilst also working with the local ICB and towards regional projects. The successful candidate will support the lead pharmacist in medicine with the delivery of the clinical service and managing the clinical pharmacy teams. You will also be required to support and promote the education and training of our clinical pharmacists and technicians. To provide and promote E&T for the clinical pharmacist and technicians' development.

This role will include weekend/bank holiday/late night/oncall.

To apply for this job, you must hold UK registration as a pharmacist, with recent hospital experience. Candidates looking for a step 7 to 8a developmental programme would also be considered.

Main duties of the job

The post holders' main base will be the Pharmacy Department of Warwick Hospital, the main base of the South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT).

To provide a clinical pharmacy service to the Pharmacy Service with specialist area:

o Antimicrobial stewardship

o Support with delivering to specialises in medicine

To lead, develop, support and deliver a high level of specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients of the Trust in the area Antimicrobial stewardship

To work with the lead pharmacist for medicine to lead, develop and support and deliver a high level of pharmaceutical service to all specialities in medicine.

Work collaboratively with provider counterparts in the Coventry and Warwickshire locality and further afield with West Midlands Region.

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.