Trosolwg o'r swydd

Following significant investment by the Trust board as part of a 5-year workforce plan, we are able to offer two advanced specialist pharmacists posts to join an expanding pharmacy governance and medicines safety team.

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated, and dynamic experienced clinical pharmacist with an interest in Governance and Medication Safety?

Would you like to work closely with the Trust’s Medicines Safety Officer to promote and share best practice and quality improvement for the safe use of medicines across the Trust in line with local and national objectives.

Are you at the stage of your career where you are looking to develop your clinical leadership management skills and work as part of the pharmacy governance and medicines safety team alongside having the opportunity to provide a high-quality patient focused clinical pharmacy service for patients within a defined clinical speciality?

If so, we would love to hear from you!

Depending on the stage of your career, a diploma, or independent prescribing qualification will be funded. Practice research is also encouraged, and we currently Academic intern pharmacists.

***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

• This post holder will be responsible for promoting the safe use of medicines across the Trust whilst there will also be scope to provide a high-quality patient focused clinical pharmacy service for patients within a defined clinical speciality .
• To work with the Lead Pharmacist Governance and Medicines Safety , to improve governance and medication safety throughout UHP, acting as an expert in medicines administration and related error management as part of the pharmacy governance and medicines safety team
• To support the development, implementation and audit of the Trust-wide Medicines Policies in consultation with senior medical, nursing and other healthcare professionals to ensure the safe and effective handling, storage, prescribing and administration of medicines in the Trust.
• Support the Lead Pharmacist Governance and Medicines Safety in the management of medication incident reporting both in pharmacy and the wider organisation
• Investigate medication incidents, and work to improve the reporting and learning from these incidents.
• Be involved in quality improvement projects which aim to make medicine use safer and reduce medicine-related adverse events.
• Work as a clinical pharmacist if appropriate providing a service to a defined cohort of patients alongside, helping to ensure the safety and efficacy of medication use.

Please view the  Job Description for the full list of duties.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

University Hospitals Plymouth NHS is the largest hospital on the Southwest Peninsula providing comprehensive secondary and tertiary care to a population of around 2,000,000 people who can access our specialist services including cardiothoracic surgery, kidney transplantation, neurosurgery, and the regional trauma Centre. Our specialist cancer treatments include bone marrow transplant, sarcoma surgery and hepatobiliary and pancreatic cancer surgery (not exhaustive). We work closely with our community partners in delivering comprehensive health and social care including general practice, care homes, mental health, neurological rehabilitation, and general medicine.

In Plymouth we are undergoing an exciting transformation which is seeing the continuous development of career opportunities for the right candidate. As one of seven NHS Trusts nationally to be hosting the ‘People First’ pilot our team are continuously identifying innovative ways to improve their own practice and in doing so improving our patient’s experience.