Specialist Clinical Pharmacist – Neonatology | Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Are you an enthusiastic neonatal or paediatric pharmacist looking to take the next step in your career?
Or you a pharmacist currently working in an adult speciality looking for a change of direction?
Do you enjoy working to develop new services and new ways of working in order to improve patient care?
If so, this could be your perfect job!
This brand new role has been created to extend our existing neonatal pharmacy team. The neonatal service at NUH is expanding, with a new, enlarged neonatal critical care unit due to open at our QMC site in December 2024.
If you'd like to be involved in shaping the exciting future of neonatal care in Nottingham, this is the job for you!- To help lead the delivery of the clinical pharmacy service to the Neonatal Service at NUH
- To partake in specialised clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken
- To provide leadership, management and speciality/service support roles
- To line manage and support more junior pharmacists in the Family Health and wider Pharmacy team
- To ensure clinical areas are fully compliant with the Medicines regulations and legislation including those for Controlled Drugs
- To be responsible for full implementation of the Medicines Optimisation Strategy within the clinical area (s), clinical audits and Quality Improvement initiatives
- Support & participate broader corporate medicines related initiatives as directed
- To take full part in the weekend and bank holiday duty rota
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
The neonatal service at NUH operates across two sites, with neonatal ICU, HDU and Special Care cots at both the QMC and City Hospital campuses. We provide care to vulnerable babies from throughout the region, with QMC being a specialist centre for Neonatal Surgery.To meet increasing demand, the neonatal unit at the QMC campus is being rebuilt and expanded, with the new facilities due to open in December 2024.
In this role you will be be working with a larger group of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians working within the Family Health Division. Our team is friendly, supportive and dynamic, using our collective experience and expertise to strive to provide the best possible care for our patients.
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Personal Specification for more details about this role.
We would be delighted to speak to you about the post if you’d like to find out more.
This advert closes on Monday 14 Oct 2024