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Job overview

Dear Pharmacists,

A new and exciting role has arisen for someone to work with the pre-assessment team as a Specialist Perioperative Medicines Pharmacist (band 7).

The post holder with work closely with the current Advanced Specialist Pharmacist – Perioperative Medicine (8a) secondment,  Advanced Specialist Pharmacist, Trauma and Orthopaedics, and the whole pre-assessment nursing/anaesthetic team to develop medicines optimisation service to support the elective recovery workstream. This will include review of specific conditions to support with streamlining the current process for review, optimisation, and escalation, including hypertension, COPD, diabetes and heart failure.

Main duties of the job

The post will primarily be based at County hospital, supporting the elective orthopaedic unit (EOU), although there is scope to provide cross-site cover. The post-holder will be responsible for regular attendance on the EOU daily ward round and mentoring the band 6 rotational pharmacist routinely covering the EOU ward.

To effectively deliver a pharmacy pre-AMS service, you must have obtained an independent prescriber qualification or will be supported by starting and completing an independent prescribing course. Being an active prescriber is a key activity and we will expand and utilise these skills in this role. This role provides a unique opportunity to be able to directly shape new and existing pre-AMS services.  

The focus of the pharmacy Pre-AMS will be to ensure safe and effective prescribing and safe and timely administration of medicines during the peri-operative period. This will include establishing pre-admission medicines history, documenting this and ensuring the patient has been given the correct advice relating to their medicines in the period up to their admission and procedure.

This is a fantastic development opportunity for any anyone looking to gain additional skills related to senior / directorate level work.

The post is a secondment until March 2025.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. 

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.