Lead Pharmacist: Homecare

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly experienced and motivated senior pharmacist to come and join our rather wonderful and established pharmacy homecare team at University Hospitals Dorset
The person we are looking for will have great clinical, organisational and leadership skills with a drive and passion for great patient care. This role will have key responsibilities in shaping and developing our homecare service working in partnership with clinicians and service leads. Developing effective networks and relationships across the trust is key to this role while maintaining a focus on best patient care.
The trust uses homecare services across a wide range of specialties including Cancer care, Rheumatology, Gastroenterology, Dermatology, Neurology and Cardiac medicines. This role provides great variety across specialities and no two days will be the same. We currently support 4,500 patients taking their medication at home and have ambitious plans to expand and grow the service.
This role will enable you to rapidly develop your clinical skills and become a subject matter expert across multiple clinical specialities., As the pharmacist lead for homecare, you will have the support from an established homecare team including experienced pharmacy technicians and dedicated administrative support. You will be responsible for the homecare pharmacy service, providing clinical advice and support to trust wide services and our patients.
This role provides great variety and would suit a clinical pharmacist wishing to rapidly develop both clinical and leadership skills. Previous postholders have moved on to become Consultant Pharmacists or part of the top pharmacy leadership team.
Our Pharmacy department is a welcoming and innovative team that prioritises patient care and patient safety. We have a strong emphasis on teamwork, partnerships with other professions and working as a one Dorset system.
Our pharmacy departments are fully automated with new robotic systems. We embrace paperless working, and all areas have electronic records and prescribing. We have an established leadership team who have coached and mentored numerous aspiring leaders. We provide fully funded post graduate training and are a local centre of excellence for pharmacy training.
In conjunction with all our pharmacists this role will include working 1 day every 5 weeks on a weekend and one late night (5-6pm) per week.
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital and Poole Hospital (you will be required to work across site)
Interview Date: 5th November 2024, To understand the role in more detail please read the full job description and person specification documents which are attached to this advert.
We'd encourage you to contact us with any queries and actively encourage visits to our sites prior to submitting an application.
Please note:
Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.
This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst this vaccination is not a condition of employment we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Internal Candidates: staff employed prior to merger who voluntarily change jobs will be appointed to UHD terms and conditions.

As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with 'university hospital' status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you'll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we're also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes., Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the New Hospital Programme.
In some cases this means that a services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have at interview.