Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Greater Manchester, United Kingdom - Appcastenterprise

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4 weeks ago

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Description

Senior Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Critical Care & Antimicrobial Stewardship

Location - The Wellington Hospital, London

Contract Type - Permanent, Full time, 37.5 hours

Band - 7 (equivalent to NHS AfC Band 8a/8b dependent on experience)

Salary - Competitive + Benefits (pension, health cover, flexible benefits and excellent career development).

About the role

Are you currently an Intensive Care Pharmacist who is looking for a new challenge? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Specialist Clinical Pharmacist with Critical Care experience to join our pharmacy team at The Wellington Hospital.

We are lookingfor an enthusiastic and dynamic individual with excellent clinical skills to lead and transform our pharmacy services for Critical Care and Antimicrobial Stewardship.

You must possess the vision and enthusiasm to take the services forward.

You will be responsible for providing high quality comprehensive clinical pharmacy service across two intensive care units in the Wellington South and North hospitals.

In addition,you will be the lead pharmacist for antimicrobial stewardship where you will oversee the coordination of the microbiology ward rounds and support on the antimicrobial stewardship strategy for the hospital.

The North Intensive Care Unit comprises 12 beds and sees a mix of cardiac, neuro and rehabilitation patients which is a mix of intensive care and high dependent patients.

The South Intensive Care Unit comprises 14 beds and is mixed intensive care and highdependent patient where long term respiratory weaning, sepsis, pre and post general, ortho and spinal surgeries are admitted as well as some medical or oncology patients.

Both units support renal replacement therapy.

Working with some of the best consultants and clinicians this is a great opportunity for someone with initiative and drive to get fully immersed in critical care and antimicrobial stewardship and build on the existing pharmacy services while promoting thebest clinical and safe use of medicines within the hospital.

You will attend daily ward rounds, weekly multidisciplinary meetings, support parenteral nutrition prescribing and be an integral part of the Intensive Care team.

Skills and experience

Master's Degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent)
GPhC Registration
Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience
Extensive relevant pharmacy experience including providing a clinical pharmacy service to critical care at an advanced level
Experience of antimicrobial stewardship
Minimum of 4 years relevant post registration experience.
Strong initiative and commitment, with a 'can do' attitude to work
Be enthusiastic with an ability to motivate yourself and team. Possess excellent communication, organisation and leadership skills and demonstrate good problemsolving skills.

About The Facility

HCA UK are incredibly proud to be awarded 'Private Hospital Group of the Year' 2020 at the Health Investor Awards.

The Wellington Hospital is the largest private hospital in the UK and has over four decades of expertise; providing the highest level of care for patients who are looking for the best treatment in key areas of healthcare, including: neurosurgery, spinalsurgery, cardiac care, orthopaedics, acute neurological rehabilitation, gynaecology and cancer care.

In our 50-bed Acute Neurological Rehabilitation Unit we care for patients with a wide range of complex neurological conditions. And we're supported by the UK's largest private intensive care unit. We also offer the latest cancer and robotic surgery treatments,including electro-chemotherapy, HIPEC and the da Vinci Robot.

Having the largest neurosciences unit in London means we're able to carry out advanced spinal surgery, intracranial and peripheral nerve surgery as well as pioneering neurosurgery.

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