Senior Clinical Pharmacist - HePMA

Overview

Fixed term or Secondment Opportunity for 6 months due to improvement in service delivery.

Secondment Opportunity - Existing permanent employees must first discuss this opportunity with their substantive line manager and complete the secondment request form prior to interview. The secondment request form and the associated secondment policy can be found on the HR/Recruitment intranet pages and must be completed and signed by the substantive line manager. The Candidate should then take it with them to interview as confirmation that an agreement has been granted.

The pharmacy department in the acute Forth Valley Royal Hospital in Larbert is a state of the art; purpose built facility that makes use of modern technologies including robotics. We implemented Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (HePMA) throughout the acute hospital in 2016, and it has since been rolled out across key sites in the health board. The system has also recently been upgraded in the summer of this year, with plans for partial roll out to our Emergency Department underway.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the recruitment of a forward thinking and enthusiastic pharmacist to join our pharmacy team within Forth Valley Royal Hospital (FVRH). The post holder will be part of a dedicated HePMA team who will be responsible for the development of the HePMA system in NHS Forth Valley extending the patient safety and clinical benefits that the system delivers to clinicians. The successful candidate will work closely with the System Manager, clinicians and wider pharmacy team to advance the safe and effective operation of the system. This will include finding innovative ways to use reports and protocols as well as helping optimise use of the Pharmacist Early Warning (PhEW) tool to improve clinical pharmacy patient prioritisation.

We are looking for a motivated pharmacist who has an appetite for change to play a key role in our team to help shape our services for the future and support our delivery of high-quality patient-centred care.

Ability and willingness to travel throughout the area of service delivery is essential for this post.

The duties of this post require the successful candidate to be a member of the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. More information on this scheme can be found at

Forth Valley Royal Hospital situated in Larbert is within 40 minutes of Edinburgh and Glasgow and is provided with good road and rail links.

For further information or an informal discussion regarding the above post please contact Jonathan Cavan, Associate Director of Pharmacy - Mental Health, Governance & eSystems ().

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Responsibilities

• Join the HePMA team and contribute to the development and safe operation of the HePMA system in NHS Forth Valley.
• Work with the System Manager, clinicians and the wider pharmacy team to optimise the use of reports, protocols and the PhEW tool to improve clinical pharmacy prioritisation.
• Find innovative ways to use system data to enhance patient safety and clinical benefits for clinicians.

Qualifications and Requirements

• Motivated pharmacist with an appetite for change to help shape services for the future and deliver high-quality patient-centred care.
• Ability and willingness to travel throughout the area of service delivery.
• Be a member of the PVG Scheme (or eligible to join).
• Informal discussion and further information available from the contact above.

Notes

Please note: The majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail; check e-mail regularly and your Jobtrain account for updates.