Are you a pharmacist looking for a change? This is an exciting opportunity to join a fairly new team and provide expert support to the service and to patients.We are looking for an enthusiastic pharmacist who will embrace working within the community setting within Swindon. We are looking for a senior pharmacist (band 8a) but would also consider a development position (band 7-8a) if this is something you are looking towards.You will be a senior pharmacist supporting Hospital at Home and Urgent Community Response. Hospital at Home provides a safe and efficient alternative to NHS bedded care providing treatment and care in a patient’s own home. This supports early discharge out of hospital and prevents avoidable admissions. You will provide a highly specialist clinical pharmacy service to virtual ward patients, optimising medicines and ensuring agreed changes in medication are implemented and sustained. This could involve remote consultations, home visits and attending multidisciplinary team meetings. You will be involved in developing and delivering safe and effective pathways of care to patients for a range of conditions. You will also be a key part of a collaborative approach to Hospital at Home across the BaNES, Swindon and Wiltshire (BSW) Integrated Care Board (ICB).Please see the job description for further details.Package DescriptionAs a Band 8a Senior Pharamacist you’ll be part of our valued teamYou will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: AFC Band 8a with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions (Salary within banding, discussed and agreed based on previous salary with evidence provided)Plentiful on site-parkingMembership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to youAccess to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest ratesOnline and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each yearThe pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality CommissionFree tea, coffee, and milk at your base locationMain ResponsibilitiesMain duties of the jobLead, develop and oversee the clinical pharmacy service provided to Hospital at Home and Urgent Community Response in line with national standardsCarry out medicine reviews virtually and face to face in patient homes, as necessaryWork as an independent prescriber (when trained), optimising medicines and promoting appropriate evidence-based and cost-effective prescribingUtilise clinical assessment skills, where competent and appropriate, to support clinical review of patients within Hospital at HomeProvide professional advice and support during multidisciplinary ward roundsAssist in the management of prescribing across the primary/secondary care interface to promote a unified and coordinated approachProvide advice and support to patients / carers and health & social care professionals on medication including education around usage and storageSupport and develop the admission and discharge process to and from Hospital at Home and Urgent Community Response services to ensure safe transfer of care in relation to medicinesCo-ordinate the day-to-day activities of the pharmacy service, supervising and line managing pharmacy technicians and rotational pharmacists within the service Contact Jo Clarke if you have any questions or to arrange a visit.For further details / informal visits contact:NameJoanne ClarkeJob titleLead Pharmacist - Community Services and Palliative CareEmail addressjoanne.clarke50@nhs.netTelephone number07500071465The Ideal CandidateRegistration with General Pharmaceutical Council Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experiential practice. Independent Prescribing annotation or desire to complete qualification Keeping professionally up to date including CPDPractice as clinical pharmacist.Experience of managing a team. Experience of leading on the incorporation of NHS priorities for pharmacy and medicines management in practice. Proven track record of service development. Knowledge and clear understanding of relevant regulations, guidance and quality standardsAble to lead and motivate a team and drive change. Assertive yet friendly Excellent interpersonal skills with patients and colleagues of all grades and disciplines. Good initiative, planning and time management. Excellent verbal and written communication skills including presentation skills. Able to apply advanced clinical pharmacy skills and knowledge in practice. Interest in and experience of practice or clinical research. Awareness of political priorities and agendas. Able to plan and implement projects. Tutoring/mentoring skills. Able to work effectively in multidisciplinary teams Good communication, verbal and writteAbout The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can. As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. 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