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United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust
About
The United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) is one of the largest trusts in the country. Through four main hospitals we provide a comprehensive range of hospital-based medical, surgical, paediatric, obstetric and gynaecological services to the 700,000 people of Lincolnshire.
We provide a wide range of healthcare services delivered by 8,600 highly trained staff and volunteers. Our services cost over £400m each year to provide and we invest around £18m each year in improving our clinical services by replacing and upgrading our medical equipment, modernising our estate and facilities and improving our information and technology infrastructure. In an average year, we treat more than 180,000 A&E patients, nearly half a million outpatients and almost 100,000 inpatients.
Cross Sector Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Band 8a
Closed for applications on: 12-Jul-2024 00:02
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 12-Jul-2024 00:02
Key details
Location
- Site
- Pilgrim Hospital Boston
- Address
- Sibsey Road
- Town
- Boston
- Postcode
- PE21 9QS
- Major / Minor Region
- Lincolnshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 8a)
Specialty
- Main area
- Pharmacy
We recognise that outstanding care can only be delivered through our people. We want to attract people who can help us deliver our vision. We want in return to help people achieve what they wish in their careers in the NHS at ULHT.
We are always keen to welcome highly skilled, committed and compassionate individuals to our hospitals – people who put patients at the heart of everything they do and are ready to help us achieve our vision.
Our values guide everything we do. They are:
- Patient-centred – Putting patients at the heart of everything we do, listening and responding to their needs and wishes.
- Safety – Following ULHT and professional guidelines. Speaking up to make sure patients and staff are safe from harm.
- Excellence – Striving to be the best that we can be. Innovating and learning from others.
- Compassion – Caring for patients and their loved ones in ways we would want for our friends and family.
- Respect – Behaving and using language that demonstrates respect and courtesy to others. Zero tolerance to bullying, inequality, prejudice and discrimination.
If you believe in them too, then you are ready to join the ULHT team.
We’ve taken great pride in building working environments where staff always feel valued, cared for and part of a team. Without doubt this is a challenging yet very rewarding job that is at the centre of health and care in Lincolnshire - making a positive difference to our patients.
Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £710 million (22/23) and we employ nearly 8,600 people.
Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement – “Outstanding Care Personally Delivered” – stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.
We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.
Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from ‘Requires Improvement’ to ‘Good’. Our rating for caring remained as ‘Good’.
This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.
So, what is in it for you?
- Flexible working: Depending on the needs of your role, we will consider requests for flexible and/or part-time working for whatever reason you should need it. We recognise flexible working will not look the same for everyone, because it depends on the nature of the role and the needs of the individual.
Types of flexibility could include:
- Part-time - less than 37.5 hours per week.
- Off-site/remote working - working from home or other sites for part or all the week.
- Compressed hours – usually full-time hours but over fewer days or shifts.
- Staggered hours – having different start and finish times.
- Set shift patterns – to allow for predictability
- NHS Pension: A generous and flexible pension scheme with contributions from us as your employer fully protected against inflation and guaranteed by the government
- Annual Leave: Starting at 27 days a year, rising to 33 days after 10 years plus eight bank holidays (for staff covered by Agenda for Change) For Medical Workforce positions (Consultant and Specialty Doctor), the full-time entitlement commences from 32 days per annum. For all other Medical Workforce positions, the full-time entitlement commences from 27 days per annum.
- Bank working: The chance to work extra hours at enhanced rates and we will pay you weekly too, ideal if your income needs a quick boost.
In addition, there is more.
- Family & Childcare: Including on-site nurseries at Lincoln County Hospital and Pilgrim Hospital Boston, maternity, paternity, adoption & shared parental leave following a set period of employment.
- Health & Wellbeing: including counselling, mental health first aid, physiotherapy, eye tests.
- Learning & Development including Lincolnshire Talent Academy, leadership training, medical education, clinical education, Lincolnshire clinical research
- Financial support and benefits including Cycle2Work, car lease scheme, home electronics. Free on-site parking and free tea and coffee and the ability to save and borrow through your salary.
- Rewards & Recognition including staff awards, long service awards, retirement awards, examples of excellence and staff lottery.
Enjoy a better quality of life in one of the UK’s most welcoming counties. Whether you’re taking the first exciting steps in your career, itching for a new challenge or searching for a better place to raise a family, Lincolnshire welcomes everyone. Discover a range of rewarding health and social care careers in a county that’s friendly, fascinating, affordable and brimming with everything you need to live a happy life. Visit beinlincolnshire.com to find out more.
Job overview
We are looking for two motivated pharmacists to lead an innovative new cross-sector service in Boston, Lincolnshire.
Rural Division of First Coastal Primary Care Network (RDFC) and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust (ULHT) are working together to address systemic challenges relating to continuity of care for patients across healthcare sectors. The aims of the service are to bridge the gap between primary and secondary care, to proactively manage patients’ needs and to improve experience and outcomes for those members of our community that are most at risk.
This is an excellent opportunity for a pharmacist who wants to develop their leadership skills and work as a part of a multidisciplinary team across organisations.
Job Title: Cross Sector Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Band 8a
Hours: 37.5
Locations: Pilgrim Hospital Boston, RDFC Surgeries
Advert
Based at Pilgrim Hospital and within RDFC surgeries, you will be expected to facilitate the safe discharge and ongoing review for high-risk patients. Patient focus will be based on system level challenges and therefore the role may include working alongside our ICS colleagues.
The role aims to improve patient care by:
- Bridging communications between primary and secondary care and reducing fragmentation
- Shared decision making and joint care with multidisciplinary teams (MDT) across primary and secondary care
- Involving patients in decisions relating to their care
Specifically by:
- Reconciliation of medicines at discharge within hospital and in GP surgeries
- Reducing polypharmacy and optimising the use of medicines
- Providing pharmacological support to the MDT
- Increasing clinical interventions
- Improving compliance
- Reducing medication errors
- Improving the discharge process and ongoing care needs
- Providing a structured review process
This role would be ideal for someone that has a passion for challenging practices and procedures to drive service development.
Working for our organisation
What are our hospitals like?
Lincoln County Hospital is situated in a thriving university city and serves the city of Lincoln and the North Lincolnshire area. It provides all major specialities and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
Pilgrim Hospital is situated in beautiful countryside and serves the South and South East Lincolnshire communities. It provides all major specialities and a 24-hour major accident and emergency service.
Grantham and District Hospital serves the communities of Grantham and the local area and has excellent rail and transport links. It provides ambulatory, paediatric and accident and emergency services.
County Hospital Louth is set on the edge of the Wolds and serves the communities of Louth and the local area. It provides several services, including an outpatient department, diagnostic and surgical procedures, and an inpatient surgical ward.
“Outstanding Care Personally delivered”
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
What we are looking for in candidates:
Qualifications:
Essential
- MPharm qualification
- Registered with the GPhC
- Postgraduate Clinical Diploma and/or equivalent experience
- Some supervisory experience
- Independent prescriber qualification
Desirable
- Some management training
Experience:
Essential
- Significant specialist medical knowledge acquired through training and experience
- Medicines management experience gained in a hospital environment across a range of specialities
Desirable
- Mentoring and/or teaching experience
- Medicines information experience
- Primary care experience
Skills and Knowledge:
Essential
- Awareness and knowledge of the dignity in care agenda
- Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework:
- Patient Centred
- Safety
- Compassion
- Respect
- Excellence
- Evidence of CPD
- Excellent clinical pharmaceutical knowledge of medical specialities
- Computer literacy in word processing and spreadsheets
- Good written, including reporting, and verbal communication skills
- Ability to plan and co-ordinate own work and that of others (time management)
- Good interpersonal skills including persuasion to influence prescribing
- Genuine care and concern for staff and patient welfare
- Flexibility
- Knowledge of Primary Care Networks (PCN) and the role of pharmacists within them
Specific Requirements:
- Ability to travel between sites is essential for this role – must hold a valid UK driving licence
ULHT recognises that everyone is different, and values the unique contribution that individual experiences, knowledge and skills make in delivering quality healthcare and becoming a model employer. We are committed to transforming our organisational culture by actively committing to implementing the Trust Single Equality Scheme, and other policies, such as the Dignity in Care policy and the Dignity at Work policy. We will continue to promote equality and challenge discrimination in all service provision, recognising and meeting the needs of the diverse communities we serve. We will strive to provide an environment in which people want to work and to be a model employer leading in good employment practice.
We are a People Promise exemplar site, for more information on the NHS People Promise - NHS England » Our NHS People Promise
As a responsible employer ULHT would encourage staff wishing to join the Trust to take up the COVID vaccination as this continues to remain the best line of defence against COVID19
Please note that we do not accept CVs.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, ULHT reserves the right to close this advert prior to the closing date.
No DBS fees to pay: Successful candidates will have DBS applications applied for & paid by ULHT where applicable. There is no requirement to reimburse ULHT for this cost.
We welcome applications from the UK Armed Forces Community. On the application form please tick “Member of the Armed Forces Community” if the below applies to you.
You are:
- A Service Leaver
- A Veteran
- A Military Reserve
- A Cadet Force Adult Volunteer
- Partner/Spouse of those Serving NB: partners/spouses are only eligible whilst their partner is serving in the Armed Forces
Applications from applicants who meet the current criteria for Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK (where both the role and candidate are deemed suitable for a Tier 2 visa) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the Resident Labour Market Test. The UK Visas and Immigration department requires employers to complete this test to show that no suitably qualified EEA or EU worker can fill the post. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Master's degree in Pharmacy
- Registration as a Pharmacist with the GPhC
- Postgraduate Clinical Diploma and/or equivalent experience
- Some supervisory experience
- Independent prescriber qualification
Desirable criteria
- Some management training
Previous experience
Essential criteria
- Significant specialist medical knowledge acquired through training and experience
- Medicines Management experience gained in a Hospital environment across a range of specialities
Desirable criteria
- Mentoring and/or teaching experience
- Medicines Information experience
- Primary Care experience
Evidence of particular
Essential criteria
- Awareness and Knowledge of the dignity in care agenda
- Ability to evidence/demonstrate key values and behaviours in line with the Trust framework
- Evidence of CPD
- Excellent clinical pharmaceutical knowledge of Medical specialities
- Computer literacy in word processing and spreadsheets
- Good written, including reporting, and verbal communication skills
- Ability to plan and co-ordinate own work and that of others (time management)
- Good interpersonal skills including persuasion to influence prescribing
- Genuine care and concern for staff and patient welfare
- Flexibility
- Knowledge of PCN and the role of pharmacists within the PCN
Desirable criteria
- Ability to be flexible with length of working day to meet needs of service
Specific requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel between sites and for On-call duties
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Joseph Myers
- Job title
- Pharmacy Operational Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01205 445611
- Additional information
or
Jason Longstaff - Practice Manager, Spilsby Surgery - 01790 755760
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