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Job Description
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- Provide clinical pharmacy and medicines management services to community hospital inpatient bedded units (intermediate care units) within the Sussex Community NHS Trust.
- Provide clinical pharmacy services to patients, carers, medical, nursing staff and other healthcare professionals in accordance with legal and professional requirements and standards.
- Participate in rotations across a variety of SCFT pharmacy services. Rotation will be individualised including for example Virtual Wards, Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes (MOCH), Urgent Community Response and Children's Services.
- Undertake CPPE newly qualified pharmacist pathway, progressing to band 7 on successful completion of this.
- Provide training and education to other health and social care staff.
- The post holder will be expected to travel regularly to sites within a defined geography for service delivery and rotations. This may include patient's homes/care homes. Some home working can be accommodated. The post holder may occasionally need to travel to other SCFT sites across Sussex.
- Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
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- Experience working with patients in any setting.
- Experience of carrying out medicines reconciliation for patients on admission and discharge
- Experience of counselling patients on their medicines.
- Dispensing medicines
- Provision of medicines information and associated systems.
- Experience working with patients in an in-patient setting
- Participation in audits.
- Experience demonstrating and explaining own duties to others
- Able to plan and organise own time. Good time management skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with a range of healthcare staff, social care staff and patients.
- Good clinical and pharmaceutical knowledge and an understanding of high risk medicines, interactions and potential problems associated with this
- Able to work independently and within a team
- Good written and verbal communications skills
- Computer skills including Microsoft office, MSTeams, pharmacy systems.
- Mpharm
- Experience working with patients in any setting.
- Experience of carrying out medicines reconciliation for patients on admission and discharge
- Experience of counselling patients on their medicines.
- Dispensing medicines
- Provision of medicines information and associated systems.
- Experience working with patients in an in-patient setting
- Participation in audits.
- Experience demonstrating and explaining own duties to others
- Able to plan and organise own time. Good time management skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with a range of healthcare staff, social care staff and patients.
- Good clinical and pharmaceutical knowledge and an understanding of high risk medicines, interactions and potential problems associated with this
- Able to work independently and within a team
- Good written and verbal communications skills
- Computer skills including Microsoft office, MSTeams, pharmacy systems.
Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated newly qualified or early career pharmacist for this development and progression role.
You will join us as a band 6 or 7 clinical pharmacist, depending on experience, and will be supported to develop. Band 6 pharmacists will be guaranteed progression to band 7 on successful completion of CPPE newly qualified pharmacist pathway.
We will support you to achieve your further career aspirations with ongoing training and development including Non-Medical Prescribing qualification and clinical diploma, and opportunities to develop your portfolio demonstrating readiness for advanced clinical practice and Band 8a roles.
Based at Crawley Hospital the post holder will travel regularly to sites within a defined geography for service delivery and rotations. The post holder may occasionally need to travel to other SCFT sites across Sussex.
The role will be split with 3 days a week providing clinical services to community hospital inpatient bedded units (intermediate care units) and 2 days each week on individualised rotation, including for example virtual wards, medicines optimisation in care homes (MOCH), Urgent Community Response and Childrens Services. .
Working hours are usually Monday to Friday business hours, but staff may be required to work Saturdays, Sundays and bank holiday rota and undertake on-call duties.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be an integral member of the Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust (SCFT) Medicines Management Team providing clinical pharmacy and medicines management input to community health services.
The main duties are to:
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
Date posted
15 January 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
Depending on experience Band 6 progression to band 7
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Flexible working, Home or remote working, Compressed hours
Reference number
150-MT1469-COR
Job locations
Crawley Hospital
West Green Dr.
Crawley
RH11 7DH
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
This role will provide medicines management input to community health services. You will join us as a band 6 or 7 clinical pharmacist, depending on experience, and will be supported to develop. Band 6 pharmacists will be guaranteed progression to band 7 on successful completion of CPPE newly qualified pharmacist pathway.
For detailed description of role and responsibilities please see attached Job Descriptions and Person Specifications.
Job responsibilities
This role will provide medicines management input to community health services. You will join us as a band 6 or 7 clinical pharmacist, depending on experience, and will be supported to develop. Band 6 pharmacists will be guaranteed progression to band 7 on successful completion of CPPE newly qualified pharmacist pathway.
For detailed description of role and responsibilities please see attached Job Descriptions and Person Specifications.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Skills and knowledge
Essential
Qualifications
Essential
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Skills and knowledge
Essential
Additional informationDisclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Crawley Hospital
West Green Dr.
Crawley
RH11 7DH
Employer's website
https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer details
Employer name
Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Crawley Hospital
West Green Dr.
Crawley
RH11 7DH
Employer's website
https://www.sussexcommunity.nhs.uk/work-with-us/ (Opens in a new tab)
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.