Senior Pharmacist Antimicrobials | Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for 2 enthusiastic and highly motivated pharmacists to join our team, working alongside the Microbiology Consultants. This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the work currently undertaken with respect to antimicrobial stewardship within the Trust andensure that antimicrobials are also used safely and effectively within our establishedOutpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) service.

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Pharmacy Department provides a high quality, professional pharmacy service and has an excellent reputation within the Trust. Both the Pharmacy Department and the Trust have a long standing reputation for being a friendly and rewarding place to work.

Key roles will include:

Regular attendance at antimicrobial ward rounds with the microbiology consultants

Providing specialist clinical input into the Trust OPAT service and contribute to weekly MDT meetings

Working towards the Trust's antimicrobial stewardship strategy

In conjunction with the rest of the OPAT team, ensuring that patients on OPATreceive appropriate monitoring and follow-up, auditing outcomes.

Undertake audits for antimicrobials and antifungals including CQUINs inconjunction with the microbiology consultants

Training multi-disciplinary team members in the appropriate use of antimicrobials.

This post would suit experienced Pharmacists with excellent clinical knowledge, good communication skills and experience in antimicrobials.

To support 7 day working you will be expected to participate in the on-call, weekend, Bank Holiday and late duty rotas.

The Trust has defined its culture as one that is patient centred which puts safety first and where all staff take responsibility, are valued and value each other. To support this, our five values are that we are all:

Caring- we design and deliver care around each individual patient's needs and wants

Safe- we make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern (safety comes first)

Responsible- all staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation

Value each other- we all value each other's contribution

Inspiring- we always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients

Our training, policies, procedures, and practices are all intended to support behaviours in line with our values and all staff are expected to uphold these by 'Living Our Values Everyday'