Band 8a

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) is the largest community healthcare provider in Sussex.

• Over 8,400 full time, part time and bank staff members
• Medical, nursing and therapeutic care provided to over 10,000 children and adults a day
• July 2018 Care Quality Commission (CQC) rating of 'Good' with 'Outstanding' features
• Flexible working patterns offered across all services
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Accredited Level 3 Disability Confident Leader

SCFT is an inclusive employer that promotes equality and challenges discrimination, and welcomes applications from people of all backgrounds. Applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates, disabled candidates and LGBT+ candidates are particularly encouraged, to ensure the Trust's workforce reflects the diverse communities it serves.

Job overview

Are you looking for a change and new challenges? Are you committed, flexible and agile in your approach to work? Do you want to be part of a Medicines Management Team where your personal development is supported? Is your work-life balance important to you? Do you want to work for a Trust that is committed to the health and wellbeing of employees? If you do, then working for the Medicines Management Team at Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) is right for you as the team is supportive, forward thinking, progressive and always striving to improve and develop.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a Band 8a Pharmacist to lead on the delivery of the Trust's Antimicrobial Stewardship agenda as well as to lead on medicines management input into other associated services such as IV therapy team (injectables) and Patient Group Directions as well as providing some clinical pharmacy service for an adult inpatient unit. You will attend multidisciplinary meetings such as the Trust's Medicines Safety and Governance Group and the Infection Prevention & Control Committee and also attend external Sussex or region wide antimicrobial meetings. You will also have the opportunity to be involved in the implementation of EPMA which the Trust is rolling out imminently. In short, you will have a wide range of exposure to various quality improvement projects as well as providing excellent developmental opportunities.

Working for our organisation

ABOUT US

As the largest provider of community healthcare services in Sussex, our teams help people to plan for and manage changes to their health, supporting patients and their families to live more independently. We employ over 5,000 full and part time staff, and provide community services to a population of 1.3 million people.

Each year our dedicated clinicians see adult or child patients more than 2.6 million times, caring for people from their earliest moments right up to the final stages of their life.

SCFT teams deliver a range of health and care services to more than 9,000 people every day, working in care homes, clinics, intermediate care units, people's own homes, GP surgeries, schools and other community venues across the region.

Our vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community and achieving the highest level of service is our top priority.

We develop and nurture our staff, and recognise that they are our greatest asset.

We give them clear career pathways, support their wellbeing, recognise and value their diversity and provide them with the leadership, skills and knowledge they need to deliver the best care for our patients now and in the future.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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You need to be self-motivated and able to work on your own. You will have excellent organisational, interpersonal and communication skills together with good clinical skills and knowledge. The ability to effectively travel between different sites across our Trust's footprint is essential. You will be based at Brighton General Hospital but it may also be possible to be based at Crawley or Horsham. The hours of work are full time or up-to full-time (we are flexible but the minimum is 22.5 (over 3 days) to 37.5 hours per week). There are currently no weekend, on-call or bank holiday working commitments. You must be a registered pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

Please see attached Job description and Person Spec for further information.

If you have any questions regarding the role please contact either Sandhia Finch, Principal Clinical Pharmacist on 01273 696011 Ext 2530 or email sandhia.finch2@nhs.net

Or Charlotte Williams, Senior Clinical Pharmacist on 07768 647827 or email charlotte.williams13@nhs.net

Person specification

Qualification
Essential criteria

• Master degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
• Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• At least 5 years relevant post-registration experience.
• Specialist knowledge acquired through a post graduate diploma course in Clinical Pharmacy or similar or alternatively acquired through relevant and equivalent experience
• Providing clinical pharmacy services within an acute hospital or similar setting.
• Broad specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge.
• Developing and undertaking clinical and non-clinical audits.
• Involved in identifying and assessing risk to improve patient safety.
• Ability to demonstrate evidence of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Familiarity with the concepts of evidence based medicines.
• Specialist knowledge and experience on relevant areas of community health services.
• Understanding of issues related to independent prescribing.
• Expertise of addressing and resolving legal issues related to medicines.
• Experience of implementing clinical governance and continuous improvement.
• Experience in implementing NICE, NSF recommendations related to medicines.
• Addressing, implementing and monitoring compliance with NHS Improvement Patient Safety Alerts related to medicines.
• Developing and delivering medicines management training to other healthcare professionals.
• Managing or advising on drug budgets and drugs costs and how to monitor these.

Desirable criteria

• Registered to be an independent prescriber with the GPhC.
• Experience of provision of medicines information and associated systems.
• Experience of working with older people with complex health needs as a clinical pharmacist.
• Management / supervision of pharmacy staff.

Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria

• Excellent organisational skills.
• Ability to assimilate, analyse and interpret complex data.
• Critical appraisal skills.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships at all levels.
• Effective influencing and negotiation skills and ability to persuade others.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a range of healthcare staff including prescribers, social care staff and patients.
• Ability to work independently and within a team.
• Ability to challenge.
• Ability to work under pressure and be able to make important decisions in pressured situations.
• Good time management skills, with ability to prioritise and manage own workload.
• Self-motivated and able to initiate change.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Good presentation skills.
• Methodological approach and attention to detail in terms of medicines.
• Knowledge of other professional registering bodies e.g., NMC, GMC.
• Able to apply sound professional judgement to legal and ethical issues.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and uncertainty.
• Computer literate including use of word-processing, excel spread-sheets, power-point.
• Ability to write report and other documents.
• Able to working and deliver within identified timelines.

Desirable criteria

• Ability to generate prescribing data using epact.net and to interpret data produced.

Other
Essential criteria

• Reliable, enthusiastic and self-motivated.
• Professional appearance and manner.
• Flexible approach.
• Able to concentrate on dispensing / checking for extended periods.
• Able to cope with interruptions when busy.
• Able to working to deadlines i.e. transport, patients requiring medication.
• Ability to work on Multi-sites and to travel between multi-sites using own mode of transport.

Desirable criteria

• Able to lift / carry pharmaceutical goods.

This post may close earlier than the published closing date if sufficient applications are received.

Correspondence relating to this vacancy will be conducted electronically. If you have not heard from us within two weeks please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please ensure that you check your emails, including your junk folder, on a regular basis. References will be requested electronically as well; please ensure you provide correct contact details for referees.

Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

• Senior Clinical Pharmacist Antimicrobials ( PDF , 834.7 KB )
• Senior Clinical Pharmacist Antimicrobials ( PDF , 834.7 KB )
• Staff Benefits Brochure ( PDF , 484.5 KB )