Lead Clinical Pharmacist - Emergency Department

Job summary

Sherwood Forest Hospitalsare seeking an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist to lead and shape our new Emergency Department pharmacy service. There is opportunity to develop advanced practice and enhance leadership skills and knowledge with an emphasis on innovation. You will be supported to identify and enhance services alongside the multidisciplinary team who are enthusiastic to work collaboratively to deliver optimal pharmaceutical care to our patients.

This role focuses on the leadership of the new service in ensuring patients have

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensuring patients in the Emergency Department receive critical medicines within the time frames required
• Ensuring medicines management processes are monitored and updated in line with local, regional and national standards
• Support the Emergency medicine MDT in efficient ways of working to maximise individuals skill-set
• Monitor and identify cost effective medicine initiatives in the Emergency Department
• Support the clinical pharmacy service in delivering against locally agreed KPIs

Join us and be part of a collaborative team dedicated to delivering optimal pharmaceutical care to our patients. This is your chance to make a significant impact within a forward-thinking healthcare setting.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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