Principal Pharmacist Acute Medicine

We are looking for an experienced hospital pharmacist looking to develop their career.
Providing Pharmacy leadership to Acute Medicine across Frimley Health (both Wexham & Frimley), as well as the day to day at the Wexham Park site. You will be expected to provide clinical services to a directorate (depending on your previous experience and expertise).
You will be expected to contribute to the strategic development of the department, both within the Trust and within the wider ICS., + To develop the clinical pharmacy service to Acute Medicine across the Trust.
+ To run the day-to-day pharmacy clinical service to the medical wards at Wexham Park Hospital.
+ To act as a role model in the field of clinical pharmacy practice and provide a consistently high standard of clinical service in line with the pharmacy objectives.
+ To recruit, manage and develop staff under the postholder., To support the Clinical Pharmacy Manager with the day to day running of the pharmacy services to the medical teams at the Wexham Park site.
To support the management, planning and delivery of Pharmacy services to Acute Medicine at all sites, including Wexham Park. This will include at least one day a week at each site.
To work closely with the Clinical Pharmacist Manager, clinicians and senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to acute care medicine across the Trust at all sites.
To promote and develop the use of Independent Prescribing by pharmacists in the delivery of care to acute care medicine across the Trust
To promote and develop the compiling of pharmacy financial reports and horizon scanning in acute care medicine across the Trust
Provide a clinical pharmacy service to a clinical area and a clinical pharmacy service to cover other areas when ward cover is needed.
To provide strategic clinical pharmacy input into medication error reduction processes within the Trust.
To liaise closely with the Clinical Pharmacy Manager to ensure appropriate actions are taken to comply with Patient Safety Alerts, National Institute of Clinical Excellence (NICE), or successor organisations, guidance and Care Quality Commission (CQC) assessments.
To work with clinicians and nurses to develop, implement and monitor the use of protocols and guidelines within the specialist area.
To ensure that drugs utilised within the specialist areas reflect the recommendations, the policies and formulary of Frimley Health NHSFT. To increase economic awareness within the specialist areas through monthly directorate financial reports and to advise on cost effective prescribing.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR - Epic - went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
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.