Pharmacy Team Lead (Surgery & Critical Care)

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and dynamic pharmacist to join the pharmacy team at Buckinghamshire NHS Trust as the pharmacy lead for the care group of surgery and critical care.

You will lead the pharmacy service to the care group, working with your team to optimise the pharmaceutical care of patients and ensure high quality evidence-based prescribing. You will be an expert in the management of critically unwell patients and you will be encouraged to work collaboratively with other professionals across the care group to ensure patients receive maximum benefit from their medicines.

This post would be suitable for an experience 8a that wishes to develop or those already working at 8b level. This post will offer exciting and challenges opportunities that can be tailored by the successful post holder.

Main duties of the job

To lead a team delivering patient centred medicines optimisation and clinical pharmacy to critical care and surgical patients.

To contribute to the governance agenda within critical care at a senior level by strategically leading, managing and co-ordinating the provision of pharmacy services for critically unwell patients, ensuring high quality, safe and cost-effective care across the care group.

To act as role model at local, regional and national level.

To identify and mitigate risks relating to medicines

To lead and deliver education and training relating to pharmaceutical care and management of the critically unwell and complex surgical patients.

To lead and develop audit, quality improvement and research within the clinical area and publish research outcomes.

To provide expert advice to clinicians regarding medicines for critically unwell patients.

To act as a non-medical prescriber

To ensure compliance with statutory and regulatory medicines legislation across the care group

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.