Job summary
Employer heading
Part Time - Lead Antimicrobial Specialist Pharmacist - Band 8b
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
The role in Surrey Heartlands requires the development and implementation of the Surrey Heartlands Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisations strategic delivery plan in relation to antimicrobials, ensuring it develops in line with local, regional and national directives. Incorporating antimicrobial strategies across whole care systems pathway work, providing expert pharmaceutical advice and guidance to staff working at all levels within Surrey Heartlands. To work within the Surrey Heartlands Antimicrobial and Infection Prevention and Control structures providing expertise in relation to medicines optimisation in prescribing antimicrobials promoting safe, clinically and cost-effective prescribing within Surrey Heartlands.
The post holder will be required to communicate in an appropriate way, highly complex information with a broad range of stakeholders including Board members, primary and secondary care prescribers, and patients to achieve the optimum use of antimicrobials within our system. This role requires strong expert leadership in areas where there are often significant barriers to acceptance when discussing prescribing policies with prescribers.
Main duties of the job
This role will lead strategic redesign and delivery in relation to antimicrobial medicines optimisation across Surrey Heartlands. It will require working across complex patient pathways in collaboration with system stakeholders across primary, secondary, community and social care.
The role will be responsible for the development and implementation of the Surrey Heartlands Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisations strategic delivery plan in relation to antimicrobials, ensuring it develops in line with local, regional and national directives.
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Working for our organisation
Surrey Heartlands is a partnership of organisations working together - with staff, patients, their carers, families, and the public - to support people to live healthier lives. Surrey Heartlands developed into an Integrated Care Board (ICB) since July 2022, working through 4 Integrated, dynamic, and sustainable place-based partnerships (our Places), each working together to deliver a shared vision across Surrey.
The 4 Place partnerships are known as:
North West Surrey Alliance
Guildford and Waverley Alliance
Surrey Downs Health and Care
East Surrey Place
We have an ambitious vision for transformation and continuous improvement of health and care across our footprint and to deliver our objectives we need a team of capable, collaborative professionals who share the same vision. We are passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better patient outcomes.
We welcome all applications, especially those from underrepresented communities, including people with a disability, and those from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and the person specification documents attached within this job advert.
Person specification
Registered pharmacist (BPharm / MPharm)
Essential criteria
- Registered pharmacist (BPharm / MPharm)
- Member of GPhC
- Post Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma/MSc qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Qualification as Independent prescriber
- Experience of managing a team (Formal management qualification)
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nikki Smith
- Job title
- Head of Medicines Safety
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07920164877
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