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Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic, patient centred pharmacist to join our specialist frailty clinical pharmacy team at Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust. With the recent expansion of frailty services within the Trust, including a new Acute Frailty Admissions Unit and a new Virtual Hospital at Home Frailty Ward, this is an ideal time to come and join our team to help shape and develop our frailty pharmacy services. You will be joining a team that is well respected and well integrated into the frailty multi-disciplinary teams across the organisation.

If you share our values of Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality then this role will provide you an excellent opportunity to develop your clinical and leadership skills within a supportive environment. 

Main duties of the job

To assist in the delivery of medicines optimisation and high quality pharmaceutical care as part of the clinical pharmacy service to the frailty wards including the Acute Frailty Unit and the Virtual Ward. 

To develop and deliver training and supervision of various members of the pharmacy team and to support training of other members of the MDT in managing frail patients medications. 

To actively participate in a speciality consultant led ward rounds and pharmacy led out-patient clinics.

To develop and lead on quality improvement programmes within frailty specialty. 

To provide and contribute to the anticoagulant service. 

This role includes the opportunities to be involved in a variety of trust-wide speciality groups including the management of Parkinson's Disease, Falls Prevention and Palliative Care Services.  

Working for our organisation

Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust (HDFT) cares for the population in Harrogate and the local area, as well as across North Yorkshire, Leeds and parts of the North East. 

At HDFT we provide outstanding care to both our patients and our staff and we value Kindness, Integrity, Teamwork and Equality. If you’re looking for an interesting and rewarding career in the NHS, where you can make a real difference to patients’ lives, HDFT could be the place for you! 

We offer colleagues:

• A supportive culture so colleagues can bring their whole selves to work.
• Staff Recognition - as well as regular appraisals, we recognise achievements with our Making a Difference & Team of the Month Awards, along with annual Colleague Recognition Awards.
• Employee Support and wellbeing – we offer a wide range of staff benefits including an Employee Assistance Programme, counselling service and a fast-track Physiotherapy service.