Main area: Pharmacist Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Part of 7 day service including weekends and on calls or late duties)
Job ref: 418-DTO8468-KA
Employer: Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Luton and Dunstable Hospital
Town: Luton
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/01/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Join a dynamic, innovative team driving excellence in patient care! Are you a Clinical Pharmacist passionate about antimicrobial stewardship, ready for a role that challenges, inspires, and rewards you? This could be your perfect opportunity! We’re seeking a talented Lead Pharmacist (Antimicrobials) to join our high-performing pharmacy team at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital. In this vibrant, forward-thinking environment, you’ll shape the antimicrobial agenda, improve patient outcomes, and thrive in a collaborative team. Supportive leadership:
Collaborate with the antimicrobial lead at Bedford and cross-site specialist pharmacist to enhance your service and development. Influential role:
Drive our Antimicrobial Stewardship agenda, shape policy, and deliver exceptional care. Exciting opportunities:
Lead antimicrobial ward rounds and provide expert advice to the multidisciplinary team, directly impacting patient care. Innovative culture:
Be part of a team that values ambition, innovation, and dedication while putting patients first. What we’re looking for: A strong commitment to antimicrobial stewardship. Energy, enthusiasm, and the ability to influence across disciplines. Previous antimicrobial experience and a non-medical prescribing qualification (preferred). If you’re ambitious, dedicated, and ready to advance your career, we’d love to hear from you. Join us to lead antimicrobial pharmacy services and make a lasting impact on patient care. Apply now! Main duties of the job
Lead, manage, and monitor high-quality Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) across the Trust, ensuring compliance with pharmacy service standards and national benchmarks. Collaborate with the multidisciplinary AMS team to implement the AMS strategy, promoting stewardship to reduce antimicrobial resistance and inappropriate use. Support the Consultant Microbiologist and infection control team in fostering a culture of prudent antimicrobial use and reducing hospital-acquired infections. Plan and conduct clinical audits, including national CQUIN projects related to antimicrobial use, or support others in doing so. Provide expert advice on Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) governance, risk management, financial, safety, and operational matters to ensure service obligations are met. Represent the Trust in BLMK STP collaborative AMS initiatives and contribute to planning and delivering joint projects. Working for our organisation
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available. Our values We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences. Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job. Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide advanced-level pharmaceutical advice and support in antimicrobial therapy and stewardship, driving service enhancements, best practice adoption, and national guidance implementation. Collaborate with the Infection Control team to develop clinical pharmacy services aligned with departmental objectives. Participate in antimicrobial stewardship rounds, reviewing prescriptions and treatment plans for patients. Utilise non-medical prescribing (where qualified) to optimise antimicrobial therapy and expand scope of practice in response to service needs. Analyse antimicrobial prescribing and financial data, monitoring trends, and promoting infection control risk minimisation strategies. Lead clinical risk management activities related to antimicrobial use, including reporting pharmacist interventions within infection control. Support Consultant Microbiologists by contributing to:
Antimicrobial therapy protocols and policy development Formulary reviews, evaluations, and patient group directions Multidisciplinary team initiatives
Present policies for ratification at directorate and Trust committees. Drive rational antimicrobial use through policy implementation, service improvement projects, and participation in clinical and non-clinical audits. Ensure safe patient care by collaborating with Hospital@Home and Community Nursing Teams to oversee governance and safety of home IV antimicrobial therapy. Person specification
Qualifications
Bachelor/Master of Pharmacy degree Willing to undertake Independent prescriber course Post graduate Masters in Pharmacy Management courses Quality Improvement Training Train the trainer qualification Experience
Evidence of specialist practitioner practice Experience of influencing members of the multidisciplinary team in delivering patient care. Evidence of managing and delivering a project Experience of clinically supervising and training staff Policy and service development Presentation to trust wide meetings Experience of delivering education and training to undergraduates and postgraduates of various healthcare professions Experience of staff line management Demonstrable evidence of undertaking research and audit and using the results to improve patient care. Knowledge
Expert knowledge and understanding of relevant standards and guidelines. Knowledge of legislation/guidance relating to medicines usage and prescribing Understanding the need of confidentiality awareness at all times Knowledge and awareness of implications of current developments in pharmacy practice and NHS strategies Recognised as a specialist within the defined speciality You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post. Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. Name: Shilpa Jethwa Job title: Highly Specialist Pharmacist - Antimicrobials Email address: [emailprotected] Telephone number: 01582 329581 Address: Luton & Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust Lewsey Road Luton Bedfordshire LU4 0DZ Telephone: 01582 497325
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Job overview
Join a dynamic, innovative team driving excellence in patient care! Are you a Clinical Pharmacist passionate about antimicrobial stewardship, ready for a role that challenges, inspires, and rewards you? This could be your perfect opportunity! We’re seeking a talented Lead Pharmacist (Antimicrobials) to join our high-performing pharmacy team at Luton and Dunstable University Hospital. In this vibrant, forward-thinking environment, you’ll shape the antimicrobial agenda, improve patient outcomes, and thrive in a collaborative team. Supportive leadership:
Collaborate with the antimicrobial lead at Bedford and cross-site specialist pharmacist to enhance your service and development. Influential role:
Drive our Antimicrobial Stewardship agenda, shape policy, and deliver exceptional care. Exciting opportunities:
Lead antimicrobial ward rounds and provide expert advice to the multidisciplinary team, directly impacting patient care. Innovative culture:
Be part of a team that values ambition, innovation, and dedication while putting patients first. What we’re looking for: A strong commitment to antimicrobial stewardship. Energy, enthusiasm, and the ability to influence across disciplines. Previous antimicrobial experience and a non-medical prescribing qualification (preferred). If you’re ambitious, dedicated, and ready to advance your career, we’d love to hear from you. Join us to lead antimicrobial pharmacy services and make a lasting impact on patient care. Apply now! Main duties of the job
Lead, manage, and monitor high-quality Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) across the Trust, ensuring compliance with pharmacy service standards and national benchmarks. Collaborate with the multidisciplinary AMS team to implement the AMS strategy, promoting stewardship to reduce antimicrobial resistance and inappropriate use. Support the Consultant Microbiologist and infection control team in fostering a culture of prudent antimicrobial use and reducing hospital-acquired infections. Plan and conduct clinical audits, including national CQUIN projects related to antimicrobial use, or support others in doing so. Provide expert advice on Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) governance, risk management, financial, safety, and operational matters to ensure service obligations are met. Represent the Trust in BLMK STP collaborative AMS initiatives and contribute to planning and delivering joint projects. Working for our organisation
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available. Our values We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences. Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job. Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide advanced-level pharmaceutical advice and support in antimicrobial therapy and stewardship, driving service enhancements, best practice adoption, and national guidance implementation. Collaborate with the Infection Control team to develop clinical pharmacy services aligned with departmental objectives. Participate in antimicrobial stewardship rounds, reviewing prescriptions and treatment plans for patients. Utilise non-medical prescribing (where qualified) to optimise antimicrobial therapy and expand scope of practice in response to service needs. Analyse antimicrobial prescribing and financial data, monitoring trends, and promoting infection control risk minimisation strategies. Lead clinical risk management activities related to antimicrobial use, including reporting pharmacist interventions within infection control. Support Consultant Microbiologists by contributing to:
Antimicrobial therapy protocols and policy development Formulary reviews, evaluations, and patient group directions Multidisciplinary team initiatives
Present policies for ratification at directorate and Trust committees. Drive rational antimicrobial use through policy implementation, service improvement projects, and participation in clinical and non-clinical audits. Ensure safe patient care by collaborating with Hospital@Home and Community Nursing Teams to oversee governance and safety of home IV antimicrobial therapy. Person specification
Qualifications
Bachelor/Master of Pharmacy degree Willing to undertake Independent prescriber course Post graduate Masters in Pharmacy Management courses Quality Improvement Training Train the trainer qualification Experience
Evidence of specialist practitioner practice Experience of influencing members of the multidisciplinary team in delivering patient care. Evidence of managing and delivering a project Experience of clinically supervising and training staff Policy and service development Presentation to trust wide meetings Experience of delivering education and training to undergraduates and postgraduates of various healthcare professions Experience of staff line management Demonstrable evidence of undertaking research and audit and using the results to improve patient care. Knowledge
Expert knowledge and understanding of relevant standards and guidelines. Knowledge of legislation/guidance relating to medicines usage and prescribing Understanding the need of confidentiality awareness at all times Knowledge and awareness of implications of current developments in pharmacy practice and NHS strategies Recognised as a specialist within the defined speciality You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. Travel between hospital sites may be required. We have state-of-the art facilities placing us at the heart of cutting edge health care. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post. Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions. Name: Shilpa Jethwa Job title: Highly Specialist Pharmacist - Antimicrobials Email address: [emailprotected] Telephone number: 01582 329581 Address: Luton & Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust Lewsey Road Luton Bedfordshire LU4 0DZ Telephone: 01582 497325
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