Senior specialist pharmacist - RSSC and ILD

As a member of the multidisciplinary team, you will lead on the provision of pharmaceutical care to RSSC and ILD patients. This will include taking an accurate drug history from patients, ensuring thorough documentation in the patient's notes and advising patients on the management of their medication. You will promote safe prescribing practice and provide pharmaceutical advice to other members of the multidisciplinary team within these specialist areas.

As a senior member of the pharmacy team, you will provide training, mentoring and line management to junior staff.

The successful candidate will have a hospital background, ideally with experience in thoracic medicine. During this six month secondment the post holder will support the ILD and Sleep specialists with procedure development and formulary applications. The role will involve working alongside Cystic Fibrosis and Pulmonary Hypertension pharmacists to provide a service to inpatients across our thoracic wards as well as screening ILD and Sleep homecare prescriptions.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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