Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - High Cost Drugs and Homecare

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton Pharmacy Department are looking to recruit an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist to provide support to the homecare team to ensure a safe and effective service to patients. The role will also support on the delivery of the high-cost drugs agenda for the trust. This is an exciting opportunity to support and develop the homecare pharmacy service at UHDB. Ensuring the service is following local and national standards and policies ensuring the safe, clinical and cost effective use of high-cost drugs across UHDB. Also working closely with a number of external stakeholders including ICB, NHSE, homecare providers, EMPC and the regional homecare team. This role is a cross site role working at both Queens Hospital Burton and the Royal Derby Hospital site. You will work closely with the homecare team and high cost drugs team to support and promote the safe and effective use of high-cost drugs across UHDB. Ensuring cost effective use of high cost drugs to ensure resources are used appropriately. If you are a registered pharmacist with hospital experience with a desire to develop yourself further this may be the post for you.

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work. In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4thbusiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.