Senior Pharmacist - Children’s Services

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly team at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, working as a part time senior pharmacist for children's services. The successful candidate will be an integral member of a well-established team, supporting clinical excellence and operational efficiencies. You will work alongside our other senior children's services pharmacists and our neonatal and women's pharmacists. We are looking for a dynamic and committed pharmacist with excellent clinical and communication skills, to lead the delivery our specialised paediatric service. The Pharmacy Team are proud winners of the Trust's Clinical Team of the Year Award 2024, and our overwhelmingly positive staff survey results speak for themselves. We are looking for a leader who demonstrates the Trust values and will continue to develop a culture of inclusivity and continuous learning which makes the pharmacy directorate at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust one of the best places to work. We recognise the variety of opportunities available to pharmacy professionals and if you choose to join our team, we want you to feel valued and supported. We will work with you to fulfil your full potential whether that be through further education and training, new experiences or coaching and mentoring. Our friendly Pharmacy Education and Training Team are in place to support your advanced practice development. Each senior children's services pharmacist will be expected to lead on a number of areas that may include the following:

• Paediatric acute service – inpatient areas
• Paediatric community services
• Paediatric High Dependency Unit
• Paediatric antimicrobial stewardship including OPAT
• Paediatric virtual wards
• Paediatric outpatients including homecare and daycase

Provide specialist clinical pharmacy support and advice to the paediatric speciality, demonstrating in-depth clinical knowledge and a high level of clinical effectiveness. Manage the day-to-day delivery of clinical pharmacy services to the paediatric directorate, ensuring efficient, safe and effective use of resources. Undertake teaching and clinical supervision of pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals. Work with the clinical and governance teams to develop guidelines, protocols and policies within the paediatric services. The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients. We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020. The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jaspreet Kaur Job title: Principal Pharmacist Email address: jaspreetkaur3@nhs.net Telephone number: 01902 695757