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Pharmacist Advanced - Frailty & Elderly Care MedicineNHS AfC: Band 8aMain area Pharmacist Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 361-7360892 Site Lister Hospital Town Stevenage Salary £55,690 - £62,682 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 01/09/2025 23:59 Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, Our mission is: Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities Our vision to 2030 is: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service Job overviewWe are recruiting for a Pharmacist Advanced-Frailty & Elderly Care Medicine who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients. With this role, you will be working closely with Consultants, Nurses, Therapists, and other healthcare professionals to provide an excellent clinical pharmacy service to these areas. Your expertise is vital to improving clinical outcomes and enhancing the quality of life for our frail and elderly patient population. Additionally, there will be opportunities to work with the senior pharmacy team to plan, develop and deliver the Trust's patient pathways within frailty and elderly care. At the heart of everything we do are our core values:Include,Respect, andImprove. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. Main duties of the jobThe post holder will lead the clinical pharmacy service for frailty and elderly care medicine at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Teaching Trust in order to ensure clinically effective, safe and cost efficient use of drugs. You will support the Pharmacist Team Leader for Unplanned Care (Medicine) to drive forward the medicines optimisation of patients within frailty and elderly care wards and in admission areas. You will also aim to resolve highly complex pharmaceutical issues and provide balanced reviews of medicines used in frailty and elderly care medicine. The successful candidate will provide expert pharmaceutical advice on issues across the organisation, analysing a range of highly complex facts. You will liaise with consultants, nurses and allied healthcare professionals regarding pharmaceutical matters in the emergency department and on frailty wards and admission areas. Working for our organisationAt East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. We run the following hospitals: The Lister Hospital, Stevenage New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City Hertford County, Hertford We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen. Detailed job description and main responsibilitiesPlease see attached Job Description and person specification, which also details the main responsibilities. Person specificationQualifications / TrainingMasters Degree MPharm Registered with the GPhC as a pharmacist Evidence of CPD to maintain fitness to practice Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent (completed both year 1 and year 2) Qualified and registered as a non-medical prescriber (or able to undertake an NMP course once in post) Previous ExperienceRelevant post registration experience in hospital Supervision of staff Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team Training of foundation trainee pharmacists and junior staff Proven experience of audit Project management and report writing Experience in writing policies/guidelines/PGDs Management of staff Tutoring of junior pharmacists or foundation trainee pharmacists Ability to take initiative and lead on projects including change management SkillsHigh level of professionalism Ability to motivate others Able to negotiate with staff at all levels Able to use initiative Assertive and confident Good organisational skills Ability to manage own time Able to cope with stress Good oral and written presentation skills Able to lead on audit projects Proven ability to teach a range of staff groups KnowledgeExcellent general frailty / elderly care medicine clinical knowledge Able to use clinical knowledge at senior level Specialised knowledge of drugs used and therapeutic trends within specialised area Knowledge of healthcare systems, guidance and NHS change Able to critically appraise research data Knowledge of post graduate education for pharmacists Confident user of Excel, Microsoft Word and Powerpoint Other RequirementsExperience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff Role model our Trust values every day Conscientious and reliable Team player Neat and tidy appearance Flexible Polite and courteous Self-motivating Our values We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do. Include We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together. Respect We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas. Improve We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose. Committed to our Community East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce . We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019. We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@ We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust. We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued. When you apply... 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