Highly Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Women's Health

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Do you want to lead and develop a specialist service that delivers high-quality, cost-effective and safe care? We are offering a temporary opportunity to join Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Teaching Hospitals as our Highly Specialist Pharmacist for Women's Health. This is an ideal role for a pharmacist seeking to further develop:

• leadership capability
• operational and service-management skills
• specialist clinical knowledge in women's health
You will step into a well-established post within the Women's Health multidisciplinary team. The role covers:
• Maternity and gynaecology wards
• General women's health admissions
• Support to outpatient services
• Close working with the Assisted Conception Unit at Wrightington
You will work closely with the Lead Pharmacist for Children's Health and receive support from the Principal Pharmacist for Surgery. Key responsibilities include:
• Safe and effective medicines management and optimisation
• Leading and supporting service improvements
• Contributing to cost-improvement initiatives
• Overseeing medicines governance for Women's Health, You will take part in consultant-led ward rounds, ensuring safe and optimal pharmaceutical care from admission to discharge. You will work directly with patients and carers to understand their needs, supporting adherence to medication regimens.
Our aim is to provide you with the skills you need to identify and reach your professional destination, whether this is as a manager, a clinical expert, or your own hybrid of both. Away from the clinical arena, you will gain valuable managerial skills, producing and reviewing guidelines and PGDs, undertaking and presenting audits and helping to balance medicines expenditure. You will also have the opportunity develop your skills as an educator, teaching and training other healthcare professionals from student level upwards. This is a rapidly expanding area in the Trust, where - if you decide this is for you - the sky is the limit. As part of the team in our busy District General Hospital, you will have the opportunity to maintain your skills in other clinical areas with occasional cover sessions and on-call, and will work closely with the Children's Health lead to ensure seamless service provision. The post includes participation in the late duty, weekend, bank holiday and on-call (EDC) rotas.

Choose Well - Choose WWL Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that 'happy staff, makes for happy patients'. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement, and living our values 'the WWL Way'. WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.