Digital Services Lead

Job overview This is a great time to join our forward-thinking and innovative pharmacy team. We are developing our specialist pharmacist team and invite applications for bank pharmacists to support our out of hours and core pharmacy service.You will have an impressive track record as an experienced clinical pharmacist, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills. We offer a fulfilling role, in a friendly and collaborative department with opportunities for development. Main duties of the job You will provide the clinical pharmacy service in our dispensary and wards, ensuring the safe, clinical and cost effective use of medicines.You will effectively communicate with the pharmacy team and healthcare professionals to provide quality care, education, clinical supervision and mentoring. Working for our organisation The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King's Lynn is West Norfolk has a superb unspoilt coastline with pretty villages, all with their own individual charm. The medieval port of King's Lynn has some very interesting architecture.We provide a comprehensive range of specialist and general acute services to around 331,000 people across West and North Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers and approximately 500 beds on a single site. Some specialist services and clinics are provided in community facilities, such as the North Cambridgeshire hospital in Wisbech. We work in partnership with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services.In February 2022 the QEH the Care Quality Commission rated the Trust as 'Good' in all of the core services they inspected, and recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures). Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please access the attached Candidate Pack which introduces #TeamQE, our Pharmacy Department and the advantages of living and working in Kings Lynn/West Norfolk. See the attached Job Description and person specification for further information about this role. Person specification Qualifications Essential criteria Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalentPostgraduate Diploma in Clinical or Technical Pharmacy or equivalent demonstrable experienceRegistered as a pharmacist with The General Pharmaceutical CouncilWorking towards and will have completed Independent Prescribing qualification by commencement in post Desirable criteria Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical SocietyMSc in Clinical or Technical Pharmacy Experience Essential criteria Extensive post-registration experience with substantial hospital experienceExtensive experience providing a pharmacy clinical service to patients in a range of Emergency and Acute Care SpecialtiesExperience of multidisciplinary team workingExperience of implementing and/or reviewing policies, guidelines, PGDs or equivalent Desirable criteria Experience of managing the entry of new medicines into a hospital formulary Skills ability and knowledge Essential criteria Able to communicate effectively with a wide range of healthcare professionals and patientsProvide expert advice on the use of medicines to treat patients within a specialist areaManage difficult or ambiguous situationsPrioritise and manage workloadDemonstrate an advanced level of reasoning and judgement Knowledge & Understanding Essential criteria Highly specialised knowledge of the treatment of patients in a range of Emergency and Acute Care sub-specialtiesKnowledge of how the delivery of the clinical pharmacy service must meet the needs of local and national priorities Applications are welcome from anyone who meets the criteria specified in the person specification regardless of age, gender, disability, race ,ethnicity, religion, belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances. Only those applicants who demonstrate in the application form how they meet the criteria in the person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We not only recruit employees based on their qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who possess and can demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our core values (attached).Please be aware that if applying via NHS Jobs, your application will be imported into Trac. All subsequent information will be generated from apps.trac.jobs. You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through NHS Jobs & we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent via NHS Jobs. By applying for this post you are agreeing to the transfer of information in the application form to Trac jobs & if you are offered a job your personal information will be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system. Please check your email account regularly for communication regarding this vacancy.We offer our staff a wide range of benefits and support including: Flexible working opportunitiesFree counselling serviceNHS Pension schemeAccess to Wagestream - an app-based service that provides instant earned wage access*Support and advice for staff affected by either Peri-Menopause or MenopauseFree parking for all staff until March 2024 Opportunity to join our Staff Networks which include: Armed Forces, REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Culture Heritage), Disability and LGBTQ+ networks. We are committed to being a menopause friendly employer.Please note due to high volume of applications for some posts, this post may close before the displayed closing date. We recommend that you apply for this role asap.Admin & Clerical staff may be required to act as Loggists for a major incident. Everyone within the Trust has or will shortly need to have a minimum level of skill for computer literacy for their day-to day- work as we become more digitally mature. Therefore all staff shoulld be computer literate.Team QEH are one of the most research-active organisations for our size in the UK, recruiting 2,188 in 20/21 and ranked 10/16 in the Eastern Region. We have a wide-ranging and diverse portfolio of clinical studies and also recognised as one of the fastest trusts in the country from set up to recruitment.