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Job overview

A  career opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic pharmacist to join our team here at Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as the Lead Pharmacist for Surgery and Anaesthetics.   If you are a clinical pharmacist with demonstrable interest or experience for providing pharmaceutical care within  surgery and anaesthetics, we would love for you to join us.   Could you work with our forward-thinking clinical teams to improve pharmaceutical services and deliver sustainable change?

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for the provision, delivery and development of a clinical pharmacy across all hospital sites, to Surgery and Anaesthetics.  They will:

• proactively contribute to delivery of outstanding patient care across the specialty

• co-ordinate, develop and participate in the provision of the ward clinical pharmacy service; thus facilitating the provision of a high quality and cost-effective pharmaceutical care service to patients and other service users

• provide specialist information, advice & training to support clinical colleagues

• Establish and develop strong and effective links with senior management of the clinical business units, in order to maintain and develop the contribution of pharmacy medicines optimisation

• participate in research activities and quality improvement initiatives

Working for our organisation

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff.  We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system.  Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated ‘good’ organisation with ‘outstanding’ features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.