Role Summary
To lead and develop clinical pharmacy services across the Trust. This includes:
- Contribute to the strategic development of the clinical pharmacy services, both acute and community, as a member of pharmacy leadership team
- Leadership, management and development of clinical pharmacists including advanced roles for pharmacists, including non-medical prescribers
- Leadership, management and development of Patient Services Clinical Pharmacist, including the development of Pharmacy Medicines Management Technician roles and Dispensary services
- Support the development of clinical guidelines and policies relating to pharmaceuticals across the Trust
- Lead and support research, quality improvement and audit relating to clinical pharmacy across the Trust
- Support training and education for undergraduate pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists, Band 6 rotational pharmacists
About the Role
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you're starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.
About Us
For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.
More detail about the role
Are you looking for a new and exciting challenge in your pharmacy career? Do you have a lot of drive and ambition to shape and revolutionise the clinical pharmacy service for our patients across our inpatient hospital wards? We are looking for an innovative and motivated pharmacist to manage and develop the clinical pharmacy service at the Royal Devon as an interim manager for a year. The post holder will be responsible for managing a team of pharmacists and technicians in the delivery of a high quality, flexible clinical pharmacy service, liasing closely with medical, nursing and other staff. You will play an active role in ensuring adherence to standards, promoting patient safety and developing taking the team to the next stage of their development in order to meet the increasing demands of clinical specialities.
The RD Pharmacy is an acute and community trust and you will work in partnership with the community services pharmacy manager to develop an effective and integrated workforce able to support the development of clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation across the whole patient pathway.
You will have experience of clinical pharmacy over a range of specialities and a proven managerial track record within hospital pharmacy and be looking for an exciting challenge for developing both yourself and the Clinical Pharmacy Team in an interim position.
Working Pattern: 37.5 hrs per week
Interview Date: Thursday 1st December 2022
For further information please contact: Tracey Foss, Chief Pharmacist on 01392 406039 or Sam Smith on 01392 402427
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Benefits
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
It’s never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you'll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
