Total 2 Finance / Banking / Insurance job vacancies in Blackburn, Lancashire

Are you working within community pharmacy or primary care and want to experience a more patient-focussed and clinical career, with opportunities for completing your diploma, funded NMP, have dedicated training and education opportunities and great pension and holiday benefits?

Are you working in hospital and want a change in location, career or work/life balance?

If your answers are yes, we have the perfect opportunity for you to join our award-winning pharmacy team.

You will have the opportunity to rotate around a variety of clinical specialties including; medicine, surgery, paediatrics, critical care, chemotherapy/aseptics and our AMU and ED department.

As a band 7 pharmacist you will additionally take on directorate or specialty responsibility and be the link person between the pharmacy directorate and that directorate/specialty. We will support you to enhance your learning in your specialty and other professional development needs (e.g. recruitment, quality improvement projects, training juniors), so you become a recognised local leader in your field and a role model within the pharmacy team.
• You will be responsible for ensuring safe prescribing, medicines optimisation and medicines management on your ward and will be a key link in the multi-disciplinary team looking after the people admitted to these wards.
• You will be supported to complete your post-graduate diploma if you are part way through.
• You will be supported to undertake your non-medical prescribing qualification.
• You will benefit from weekly training and education sessions from specialist pharmacists or other healthcare professionals
• You will participate in our weekend service, working Saturday & Sunday every 7-8 weeks, with compensatory rest days taken the following week.
• You will participate in the late-night and/or on-call rotas at a frequency of 1 shift in 3 weeks. Two pharmacists work in the dispensary until it closes at 7pm, after which on-call is undertaken from home by a third pharmacist who has a work laptop and mobile.

Pharmacy is a large and forward-thinking department. Whilst being spread across sites and having a large number of staff we are very welcoming to all and have a fantastic legacy of assistants, technicians and pharmacists who have worked with us for very many years, several of whom have progressed in their roles within ELHT Pharmacy.

We have a large cohort of Non-Medical Prescribers (NMPs) and are actively encouraging all our pharmacists to become NMPs, with plans in place for our staff up until the registration of trainee pharmacists in 2026 who will have this qualification embedded into their undergraduate degree.

We have strong links with our local universities with three teacher practitioners who support junior pharmacists and provide teaching to medical and pharmacy undergraduates.

In addition to our clinical specialist pharmacists, we have dedicated pharmacy staff working within; Homecare, Rheumatology, Medicines Information and the Medicines Support Team (a department dedicated to supporting patients post-discharge and optimising their medicines with home visits and recommendations to their GP/healthcare provider).

We have specialist pharmacists delivering dermatology and cardiology out-patient clinics, undertaking independent patient assessment, consultation and prescribing. We are keen to support the professional development of our staff and look to the future of Consultant Pharmacist roles at the Trust.

See job description attached to advert

If you would like any further information, or would like to arrange a visit, please contact:

Hannah Robinson or Emma Watson (Clinical Services Lead Pharmacists), or in their absence any Senior Clinical Pharmacist on 01254 733740.


This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Dec 2024

What skills and experience we're looking for

We are seeking to appoint an experience Finance Officer from January 2025. The successful candidate will work in liaison with the finance lead in each academy to ensure that financial transactions and internal controls are accurately recorded and reported in line with United Learning’s finance policies and procedures.

The successful candidate must:

• Have experience within a finance / accounting role
• You can work accurately with a strong attention to detail
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• A commitment to confidentiality and professionalism in all aspects of financial management

What the school offers its staff

Rewards and Benefits:

Our pledge, to all our academy teachers, is that by working for us you will benefit from more pay, more time, and more support.

More pay…

more time…

and more support

• We pay an average of 5% above national scales – the best rates of pay in the sector.
• Cash towards medical treatment.
• Generous staff discount scheme.
• Three extra INSET days for planning.
• At least one personal day a year.
• Great training for your career.
• Exceptional curriculum resources.
• Expert subject advice.
• Support for your wellbeing.

Further details about the role

Role Purpose:

To work in liaison with the finance lead in each academy to ensure that financial transactions and internal controls are accurately recorded and reported in line with United Learning’s finance policies and procedures.

The Cluster Finance Officer will carry out their role and responsibilities in a manner which is in keeping with the values and vision of each academy within the Cluster.

The postholder will support the financial management function to ensure processes are compliant with United Learning’s policies and procedures and statutory and regulatory requirements.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment. Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance. Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant): childcare disqualification Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) medical online and social media prohibition from teaching right to work satisfactory references suitability to work with children You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.