Senior Pharmacist (Hospital at Home)

Would you like to play a part in the Hospital at home service in the beautiful location of Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland.

We have a rare opportunity for permanent position to lead and oversee clinical pharmacy input to the Urgent Community Response (UCR) and frailty virtual ward team to deliver care to the virtual ward and Urgent Care Response teams.

You will contribute to patient care both within the unit base setting, and via patient home visits where appropriate.

Lead on medication provision and delivery across organisational boundaries.

Complete Medication reviews, medicines reconciliation and pharmaceutical care plans for patients admitted to the virtual ward.

Successful candidate must have access to a vehicle for work purposes to meet the requirements of the role., You will work as an independent prescriber, optimising medicines and promoting appropriate, evidence-based, and cost-effective prescribing and deprescribing as part of the wider hospital at home team.

You will be using your clinical skills and knowledge in investigations, analysing, and implementing actions for medication related incidents within the virtual ward.

The provision of specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge to a range of health and social care professionals on the safe prescribing, handling, and administration of medicines.

Leadership and Improvement TrainingWe support the Making Every Contact Count approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

o Your Leadership Impacto Leading your Team to Successo Leading Into the Futureo Service Improvement for Beginnerso Developing your Service Improvement Skillso Lean Practitioner

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:

o Explore leadership within the NHSo Promote Trust values and behaviourso Develop your leadership effectiveness and skillso Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.