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London, England, United Kingdom

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

- Active member of the pharmacy management team, developing strategy for operational and logistic functions of Pharmacy service and ensuring effective intra-department communication.- Deputise for the chief pharmacist. Responsible for the day to day running of the pharmacy department.- Line management of wide range of staff from lead pharmacists to pharmacy assistants.- Responsible for higher management of the procurement, stores, and distribution teams.- Establishment of broader leadership roles within the department with focus to psychological safety, leading up, and aligning the trust vision and values with departmental behaviours.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

- Clinical specialism in cardiothoracic critical care pharmacy: Including Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation, Continuous Renal Replacement Therapy, sepsis, sedation, delirium, pain, therapeutic drug monitoring, prescribing, Extensive MDT work, guidelines, and policy management.- Directorate pharmacy lead for Theatres and Critical Care Areas: Controlled drug management, policies and guidelines management, audit, training and education.- Hospital Move (Papworth Everard to Cambridge Biomedical Campus): Project manager for introduction of pharmacy dispensing robot, and Critical Care Pharmacy.- COVID-19 response management: Includes: Increased beds, upskilling/training staff, strategic response management, shortages, stock control and waste minimisation.- Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration: Creation and optimisation of workflows, documentation, decisions support, drug library, training and education.- Education and training: Pre-registration pharmacist tutor, clinical diploma tutor, critical care pharmacist mentor.

Bury St. Edmunds, England, United Kingdom

- Build, implementation and maintenance of electronic prescribing and medicines administration on Cerner Millennium.- Responsible for the build and maintenance of drug library (order catalogue), order entry formats, order sets/powerplans involving medication, order sentences and medicines alerts interaction checking. This involved in depth work alongside clinical specialists trust ICT team, and Cerner. Attendance at and contribution to national special interest groups (SIG), reports presentation (e.g., at trust executives’ group).- Creation of departmental standard operating procedures and trust quick reference guides for end users.- Training and Education: Clinical diploma tutor to diploma students, and mentor to other diploma students and pre-registration pharmacists. Clinical training of rotational pharmacists, doctors, nurses, and midwives. EPMA end user training to all staff in the pharmacy department, plus other staff groups that handle medication.- Clinical pharmaceutical management of a wide variety of specialised areas such as critical care, paediatrics, medicines information, oncology, admissions, and many other medical and surgical areas.Multi-disciplinary team working: Contribution to consultant intensivist led and microbiology ward rounds.

Clinical Diploma Pharmacy Practice

Master Of Pharmacy, Pharmacy

Independent Prescribing