Senior Specialist Pharmacist - Critical Care

Job summary

Are you an enthusiastic pharmacist seeking an opportunity to make a difference?

Royal Papworth Hospital invites you to join our team, providing high quality pharmaceutical care to patients in our specialist cardio-respiratory centre. The pharmacy department sits at the heart of our state-of-the-art, digitally enabled hospital. We welcome diversity in the department, and look to celebrate the unique contribution of each team member.

As a Senior Specialist Pharmacist for Critical Care, you'll collaborate with a team of pharmacists to deliver a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to our critical care and theatres business units. Your role will involve providing high-quality pharmaceutical care to cardiothoracic critical care patients, including those following medical and surgical pathways, as well as individuals undergoing Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) treatment. While prior experience in cardiothoracic critical care is advantageous, we are committed to supporting candidates in developing the specialised expertise required for this role.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will:

• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to optimise patients' pharmaceutical care, undertaking bedside reviews and attending multidisciplinary ward rounds and meetings
• Provide input to the development of guidelines and policies within your area of expertise.
• Support safe and effective medicines management in theatres and critical care settings.
• Mentor and train senior rotational pharmacists within the Critical Care unit.

In addition to your clinical responsibilities, you will play a pivotal role in promoting safe medicines management within Critical Care and Theatres environments. You'll have the opportunity to lead quality improvement initiatives or research projects and deliver training sessions to various clinical staff members.

As a senior member of the pharmacy department, you will line manage a small number of pharmacists and contribute to our senior pharmacist team. We are dedicated the development of line managers, providing access to leadership development programmes to enhance management and leadership skills.

If you are passionate about delivering exceptional pharmaceutical care and thrive in a collaborative, innovative environment, we want to hear from you.

About us

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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