Education & Training Lead Pharmacist

An established role offering exciting opportunities to shape and drive Berkshire Healthcare pharmacy clinical education. You will get autonomy, variation and the chance to further develop your leadership skills. You will work in a forward thinking GDE Trust that has adopted a quality improvement (QI) programme which aims to help everyone deliver the best possible care to our patients, recognising that “better never stops”.

Are you dynamic, innovative and proactive? Bring us your specialist knowledge to target service improvement and take us to the next level. As E&T Pharmacy Lead, you will represent pharmacy at externally and at Trust meetings, liaising closely with the Trust E&T Lead. You have a proven
track record of implementing change and inspiring others. We will actively support you to develop into this role, especially if starting at the band 7 level.

If appointed as a band 7, there will be a bespoke development plan (based on the essential criteria within the 8a person specification for this post), with timelines and milestones to achieving band 8a; this will form part of the postholder’s formal job offer and contract of employment.

Be the Trust-wide Pharmacy E&T lead, responsible for all aspects of pharmacy education. The post will include a practicing clinical pharmacy role. This includes:

• Responsibility for the ongoing development and delivery of our E&T vision.
• Ensuring effective implementation and operation of pharmacy E&T functions.
• Responsible for the ongoing development, audit and oversight of training plans and E&T

standard operating procedures (SOPs) for all pharmacy staff.

• Lead our E&T team and be a clinically active member of the Pharmacy Service

To be considered for this role, you must have:

• Great E&T delivery skills and strong relevant education/training interest (7) or experience

(8a)

• A hospital clinical pharmacist background, with a strong patient focus
• And be dynamic, innovative and proactive, with a track record of leading change

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.

The trust employs almost 5,000 people over more than 100 sites and community settings across Windsor & Maidenhead, Slough, Bracknell Forest, Wokingham, Reading and West Berkshire.

As an inclusive employer, we value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall 100 Top Employer. Whatever your background or individual needs, at Berkshire Healthcare you’ll be supported by friendly and professional managers to succeed.

These are the values that we live by at Berkshire Healthcare:

• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions

We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.

Benefits of working for us include:

• Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell leave
• Generous NHS pension scheme – 20.68% employer contribution
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• Advanced IT enablement
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants via the Blue Light Card
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and more to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave and access to our three staff nurseries

If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, join us and let’s be outstanding together.

We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Carl Partridge, Chief Pharmacist on 07799 861823 or email: carl.partridge@berkshire.nhs.uk who’ll be delighted to help.

We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.