Medicines Optimisation Care Homes Pharmacist
Accepting applications until: 25-Jul-2024 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 25-Jul-2024 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- King Edward VII Hospital,
- Address
- St. Leonards Rd,
- Town
- Windsor
- Postcode
- SL4 3DP
- Major / Minor Region
- Surrey
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
Specialty
- Main area
- medicines
NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board was formed on 1 July 2022 under the Health and Care Act 2022, replacing NHS Frimley Clinical Commissioning Group.
The ICB is the new statutory NHS organisation responsible for planning and delivering health and care services. It will work collaboratively with partner organisations including the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, people and communities across the Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS).
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best employers are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.
We are committed to delivering a trustworthy, flexible and responsible staff culture.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for someone to be part of the Medicines Optimisation in Social Care and Care Homes Team within Frimley ICS. This team is well established and highly respected locally as well as nationally. The team leads on ensuring that medicines use in care homes and other social care settings is individualised, safe, effective and sustainable.
The role is for a Pharmacist to work at an advanced clinical level, providing advice and support to care homes and social care organisations across the system, developing best practice guidance, delivering training to all levels of staff and carrying out complex structured medication reviews and supporting and developing PCN and GP practice pharmacy staff to carry out to enhance outcomes for people in care homes and social care settings.
Advert
This role is part of the Medicines Optimisation in Social Care and Care Homes Team within Frimley ICS. This team is well established and highly respected locally as well as nationally. The team leads on ensuring that medicines use in care homes and other social care settings is individualised, safe, effective and sustainable.
The role is for a Pharmacist to work at an advanced clinical level, providing advice and support to care homes and social care organisations across the system, developing best practice guidance, delivering training to all levels of staff and carrying out complex structured medication reviews and supporting and developing PCN and GP practice pharmacy staff to carry out to enhance outcomes for people in care homes and social care settings.
This job description is only an outline of the tasks, responsibilities and outcomes required of the role. The role will evolve as needed to support the emerging pharmacy and medicines optimisation transformation agenda and to the needs of the local system. As such, the postholder will be required to carry out any other duties appropriate to the role.
Working for our organisation
NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board was formed on 1 July 2022 under the Health and Care Act 2022, replacing NHS Frimley Clinical Commissioning Group.
The ICB is the new statutory NHS organisation responsible for planning and delivering health and care services. It will work collaboratively with partner organisations including the voluntary, community and social enterprise sector, people and communities across the Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System (ICS).
We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best employers are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles.
We are committed to delivering a trustworthy, flexible and responsible staff culture.
Benefits include:
- Fringe HCAS payment
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Agile Working; currently 1 day a fortnight office based.
Supportive team, flexible working arrangements and access to NHS leadership development and training opportunities
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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NHS Frimley Integrated Care Board is the statutory NHS organisation responsible for planning and delivering health and care services for the communities of Bracknell Forest, North East Hampshire and Farnham, Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, Slough, and Surrey Heath. Our key priorities are to increase healthy life expectancy and to reduce health inequalities for the 800,000 people who live in our communities. We value and promote diversity and are committed to equality of opportunity for all. We believe that the best employers are those that reflect the communities they serve. We want to increase the diversity of our NHS leadership and particularly encourage applications from women, people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities, LGBT communities, younger candidates and from people with lived experience of disability, who we know are all under-represented in these important roles. |
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people 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.
Person specification
Application and Interview
Essential criteria
- Registered with the GPhC as a pharmacist
- Active engagement with relevant continuing professional development
- Educated to Post-graduate Diploma or Master’s level; or demonstrable equivalent level of experience working at a senior level
- Post-graduate qualification in clinical or advanced pharmacy practice or equivalent; or demonstrable experience of working in a clinical role
- Qualified as an Independent Prescriber or planning to undertake the qualification in the near future
- Line management training or experience in line management
- Aware of competencies set out in Advanced Pharmacy Framework and working towards them
Documents
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Tim Langran
- Job title
- Business Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
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