This fixed-term post for 14 months, at 0.5 WTE, sits in the antimicrobial stewardship team at Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The post holder optimises antimicrobial prescribing across the trust, delivers audit and training, and runs ward rounds. It acts as deputy to the lead AMS pharmacist and carries weekend and bank holiday working. Applicants need GPhC registration; independent prescriber training is offered if required.
What the job involves
- Provide specialist antimicrobial and pharmaceutical advice across all clinical areas to prescribers, clinicians, nursing and pharmacy staff, and patients
- Optimise antimicrobial prescribing with the AMS team to meet trust and ICB objectives
- Remove inappropriate penicillin allergy labels
- Undertake audits and service evaluations for the AMS team, based on its annual strategy
- Deliver training and audit feedback to prescribers, pharmacists and nursing staff on safe antimicrobial use
- Carry out AMS and infection management ward rounds, contributing directly to patients' anti-infective treatment
- Act as deputy to the Lead Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist, contributing to safe trust-wide AMS practice
- Provide leadership and mentorship to pharmacy colleagues and deliver RPH antimicrobial priorities
- Take part in the AMS team journal club
- Prescribe as an independent prescriber for agreed patients, within competence and in line with legislation and local policies
What’s required
Qualifications
- Master's degree in pharmacy or equivalent
- Higher degree or diploma in clinical pharmacy
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Registration & licences
- GPhC registered, practising pharmacist
- Independent prescriber (training offered if required)
Experience
- Expert clinical knowledge and skills gained through training and experience
- Advanced clinical reasoning and judgement
- Clinical audit experience
- Charge management and running multiple projects concurrently
- Leadership experience
- Experience of supervising, mentoring and teaching
Skills & knowledge
- Highly advanced critical appraisal and drug evaluation skills
Other
- Examples of working in line with the trust values of compassion, excellence and collaboration
- Commitment to driving culture change through equality, diversity and inclusion
Nice to have
- Management or leadership qualification
- Faculty membership of the Royal College of Pharmacy
- BSAC, RPC or UKCPA introduction to antimicrobial stewardship, or equivalent
- Active participation in multidisciplinary healthcare research
- Expert understanding of primary and secondary care prescribing issues and commissioning practice
What’s offered
- Support for flexible working
- Continuous education
- Encouragement to attend conferences and networking events
- Opportunities to participate in research
- Encouragement to enrol on leadership courses
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
