Lead Collaborative Pharmacist - Surgical and Critical Care

Are you a highly experienced clinical pharmacist with a passion for high quality patient centred care? Are you passionate about working with the wider multi-disciplinary team and supporting them with the unique skills that the pharmacy team can add to patient care?

Due to promotion, an opportunity has arisen to lead our Surgical Pharmacy team, leading and developing clinical pharmacy services to meet the needs of the Surgical Care, Specialist Surgical Care, and Critical Care, Anaesthetics and Theatres Collaboratives. We are looking for someone with extensive clinical pharmacy skills and experience; you will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, along with a strong team spirit and the ability to motivate others. You will provide senior leadership support to the pharmacists working within the Collaboratives and across the wider Trust to improve the use, management and safety of medicines. The post will also deputise for the Deputy Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Services as required. This post has cross-site responsibilities across various locations in North Cumbria, with base agreed on employment.

Main duties of the job

• Lead, develop and be a role model for clinical pharmacy services to the clinical areas managed by the Surgical Care, Specialist Surgical Care and Critical Care, Anaesthetics and Theatres Collaboratives including Colorectal, Endoscopy, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Upper GI, Urology, Vascular, Dermatology, ENT, Ophthalmology, Trauma and Orthopaedics, ITU, Acute Pain and Theatres.
• Work in accordance with objectives set by the Deputy Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Services, to drive and implement innovative clinical pharmacy services to meet the needs of the Collaboratives.
• Lead by example in an agreed specialism and ensure a consistently high quality clinical pharmacy service is delivered to all areas of the Collaboratives in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
• Lead and manage pharmacy staff involved in the delivery of the clinical pharmacy service e.g. advanced and specialist pharmacists, medicines management technicians, rotational pharmacists and trainee pharmacists.

About us

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county. Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work. Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview. Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• MPharm or equivalent
• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
• Evidence of CPD
• Management or Leadership Qualification
• Membership of RPS

Knowledge and Experience

• Extensive specialist therapeutic and clinical knowledge relevant to the post and collaboratives.
• Expert knowledge and understanding of relevant pharmacy/medicines standards, legal requirements and guidelines.
• Knowledge and awareness of implications of current developments in pharmacy practice and NHS strategies/policy.
• Knowledge of current and planned developments in the pharmacy profession.
• Understanding of NHS managerial and financial frameworks.
• Evidence of successful change management.
• Participation in research projects.

Skills and Aptitudes

• Ability to motivate teams to deliver objectives.
• Ability to prioritise competing demands; work under pressure and deliver against a background of change and uncertainty.
• Ability to make judgements in highly complex situations.
• Ability to critically review, analyse and interpret clinical literature, and medicines legislation.
• Appropriate IT skills to utilise clinical information systems, pharmacy computer systems, databases and other software to improve patient care.
• Enthusiastic, self-motivating, good organisational skills.
• Demonstrate ability to work independently and within a team.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Co-operative and flexible working style with Trust wide teams.
• Friendly, approachable, able to convey messages with empathy and diplomacy.
• Competent and confident to deliver complex presentations and training sessions.
• Coaching skills.

Other requirements

• Able to travel independently between sites.
• Ability to participate in on-call rota and 7 day working.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.