Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Pharmacist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: To take part in 7 day working, on-call and late rotas
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (37.5 hours/week)
- Job ref
- 343-NN-6245803-HSS-Y
- Employer
- Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trustwide on a rotational basis
- Town
- St Helier Hospital, Carshalton
- Salary
- £49,178 - £55,492 Pro-rata PA inc HCAs (Outer)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Pharmacist, Antimicrobials
Band 7
At Epsom and St Helier Hospitals, above all we value respect. We put respect at the heart of all we do, by living up to our shared behaviours of kindness, professionalism, positivity and teamwork. This enables us to provide great patient care and make ESTH a great place to work. When you sign up to work with us, you sign up to this and we welcome applicants who share our values
Job overview
Are you keen to challenge sub-optimal antimicrobial prescribing and champion excellent stewardship? Do you thrive in a multi-disciplinary clinical environment? If so, this could be just the opportunity for you.
We are looking for an experienced, enthusiastic pharmacist to join the antimicrobial team, to help support the Trust’s focus on effective and appropriate use of antimicrobials.
Based across both sites, you will be expected to engage with clinicians on the wards and with the Consultant Microbiologists to provide patient focused advice on drug treatments. As part of the team your role would be to influence antimicrobial prescribing and usage, thereby reducing antimicrobial resistance and improving patient outcomes.
You will assist in the development, implementation, evaluation, and monitoring of anti-microbial policies and procedures, contribute to newsletters and help train Trust staff. You will promote the judicious use and monitoring of antimicrobials in the Trust as part of your regular clinical pharmacy service to acute wards, and through your mentorship of junior colleagues.
The successful candidate will need excellent interpersonal and communication skills, be task driven and have the ability to prioritise work effectively. We will provide appropriate training to aid both your personal and professional development.
Main duties of the job
- To promote the safe, responsible and cost effective prescribing and use of antimicrobials to optimise clinical outcomes and minimise adverse reactions and errors.
- To assist the medicines management team in the management and development of the Trust formulary and appropriate medicine usage, focusing particularly on antimicrobial usage.
- To assist in the provision of a comprehensive and efficient pharmaceutical service, in accordance with required standards of quality and professional practice.
Working for our organisation
Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.
We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.
The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Professional qualification – General Pharmaceutical Council registration
Desirable criteria
- Clinical diploma
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration hospital experience
- Multidisciplinary team work.
- Demonstrate evidence of good clinical knowledge and skills.
- Microbial stewardship experience
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of CMM (formerly JAC) pharmacy computer system
- Clinical governance and risk management
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
- Good organisational skills, self and others.
- Ability to motivate self and others
- Able to influence and negotiate with all grades of staff
Desirable criteria
- Drug usage review/evaluation/audit experience
- Ability to implement and manage change
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Grace Konadu
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist, Antimicrobials
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 8296 4035
- Additional information
Alternatively contact Emily Wighton, Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Services (Interim), email [email protected] to book a telephone or Teams call.
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