Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Surgical Services

Due to internal secondment, an exciting and challenging opportunity has arisen for a dynamic, focused, and forward thinking individual to lead the pharmacy service provided to the Surgical wards and departments within South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This will be a 12 month temporary contract. The team is currently made up of rotational band 6 and band 7 pharmacists alongside regular medicine management support.

As a clinical leader in your speciality, you will support the pharmacy senior management team in areas such as clinical audit, implementation of medicines optimisation strategies, and service improvements aimed at enhancing the benefits that the pharmacy team bring to our surgical patients.

Main duties of the job

You will lead the clinical pharmacy team to deliver safe, effective and optimum clinical pharmacy services to surgical patients at South Tees Hospitals in addition to providing expert advice, guidance and information on treatment choices, medicines use, clinical pharmacy and financial issues to senior staff and managers within the services.

This post will involve development of clinical pharmacy services in Surgical Services to ensure medicines optimisation. The post holder will actively consult patients in a variety of clinical settings and make clinical interventions to improve patient care and patient safety. The post holder will also continuously complete service evaluation and monitoring of key performance indicators (KPIs) to continuously make improvements to the service.

The trust has over 1000 beds across two acute hospital sites, plus beds in the community. We provide a comprehensive range of local, and specialist regional services including, neurosciences, renal medicine, spinal injuries, major trauma, cardiothoracic surgery, vascular surgery, hyper acute stroke services, paediatrics/neonates and cancer services including radiotherapy. The pharmacy department provides a stimulating, friendly, and professionally rewarding environment for staff to develop their clinical expertise. This post provides a varied experience as well as flexible and challenging opportunities for personal and professional development.

About us

Leadership and Improvement Training

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to

Explore leadership within the NHS

Promote Trust Values and Behaviours

Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills

Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.