Total 16 job vacancies by NHS Jobs

The Core activities of Pharmacy Technician Daily prescription queries Providing support to Clinical Pharmacists in managing daily patient prescription requirements. To include the resolution of patient / pharmacy queries. In particular focussing on:Out of stock medicationsPharmacy queriesETP queries Discharge Summaries Managing and processing discharge summaries and clinical letters. Undertaking patient facing and patient supporting roles to ensure effective medicines use, through shared decision-making conversations with patients. Reviewing Patient Medication Running Medication Review clinics either patient facing or virtually, including in Care Homes. To include carrying out medicines optimisation tasks including effective medicine administration (e.g. checking inhaler technique), supporting medication reviews and medicines reconciliation. Where required, utilise consultation skills to work in partnership with patients to ensure they use their medicines effectively. Providing specialist expertise, where competent, to address both the public health and social care needs of patients, including lifestyle advice, service information, and help in tackling local health inequalities. Vaccination Programmes Supporting vaccination programmes for patients and staff as required MHRA Alerts Managing MHRA alerts and actions, including leading the receipt and understanding of the alert, communicating with PCN contacts and completing all associated actions. Actions may include, carrying out audits and patient searches, contacting patients and sending patient letters. EclipseAlerts Managing Eclipse alerts. To include running searches and deciding on the appropriate course of action based on findings, communicating with PCN contacts and completing all associated actions. Actions may include, carrying out audits and patient searches, contacting patients and sending patient letter. Audits Undertaking clinical audits, supporting quality improvement measures and contributing to the Quality and Outcomes Framework and enhanced services. Assisting in the delivery of medicines optimisation incentive schemes (e.g. medicines switches) and patient safety audits. Leadership Being the point of contact for ICB for cost switches and cost savings Supporting initiatives for antimicrobial stewardship to reduce inappropriate antibiotic prescribing. Providing training and support on the legal, safe and secure handling of medicines, including the implementation of the Electronic Prescription Service (EPS). Developing relationships with other pharmacy technicians, pharmacists and members of the multi-disciplinary team to support integration of the pharmacy team across health and social care including primary care, community pharmacy, secondary care and mental health. Supervising practice reception / admin teams in sorting and streaming general prescription requests, to allow GPs and clinical pharmacists to review the more clinically complex requests. Ensuring practices security surrounding prescriptions pads, administration and staff training is robust. Supporting the implementation of national prescribing policies and guidance within GP practices, care homes and other primary care settings Taking a central role in the clinical aspects of shared care protocols and liaising with specialist pharmacists for more complex patients. Support trainees such as Pre-registration Pharmacy technicians and Foundation Pharmacists with their learning needs as required Training requirements All pharmacy technicians must have completed or be enrolled in, be undertaking or be prepared to start the CPPE approved 15-month training pathway (PCPEP). Pharmacy technicians must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. Entry to the PCPEP programme will include the option for an accreditation of Prior Learning (APEL) process.

MAIN ROLE AND PURPOSE OF THE POST The Health Care Assistant will: Be a member of the clinical team. Provide phlebotomy, in accordance with current guidelines and local protocols. Perform New Patient Health Checks, in accordance with local protocols. Refer patients to other clinicians as necessary Provide routine clinical care to patients according to locally approved protocols, under supervision of the Nurse Practitioner. Work across multiple sites managed and operated by The Whalebridge Group. SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES Understand the principles of healthy living and provide relevant health promotion literature to patients. Assist clinicians in the emergency management of patients. Collect patient data such as blood pressure, height, weight and ECG in accordance with practice protocols and your competence to operate the necessary equipment. Record data on patient electronic records in an accurate and timely manner. Summarise patient notes and provide administrative assistance to the nursing team. Provide smoking cessation support to patients in accordance with your training and practice protocols. Run Blood Pressure and Cardiac Clinics. Prepare the consulting and treatment rooms for effective consultation, maintaining stocks of examination instruments, stores and specimen collection materials, and ensuring couches and work benches/drawers are kept clean. Maintain the system for monitoring and ordering clinical supplies. Ensure that all specimens taken by clinicians, or brought in by patients, are ready for collection by pathology service. Assist in maintaining safe storage of drugs and vaccines under the direction of the Nurse Practitioner. Ensure that you comply with infection control guidelines. Maintain patient privacy and dignity at all times, respecting patients rights, and preferences, and adopt a non-judgemental manner when interacting with patients.

MAIN ROLE AND PURPOSE OF THE POST This role is within the Clinical Admin Team, who support all aspects of patient care across the company. The Admin Assistant is a developmental role. They will be expected to develop the skills necessary to work in all aspects of the admin team. Provide admin support to all clinical areas of the company. Be a first point of contact for patients. Assist patients to access the services that they need. SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES The responsibilities described below are those of the clinical admin team. Access Answer the telephone as a priority and respond to the caller in an appropriate manner. Man the reception desk. Book appointment, signpost to other services and support patients care. Data Flow Action all incoming data received through electronic transfer, e-mail and post. Ensure that it is coded and reviewed by an appropriate clinician. Action outgoing data through electronic transfer, e-mail, sms message or post. Clinical Support Action tasks from the clinical team. Administer the recall system for patients with long term conditions. Monitor the uptake of all screening programmes and manage additional recalls as required. Apply clinical coding to patient records as appropriate. Update the Open Exeter system. Monitor the childhood immunisation status of all children and liaise with the Child Health Department as necessary. Maintain waiting lists of patients for specialist clinics and ensure that they are given appropriate appointments. Outgoing Information Ensure that referrals are processed in accordance with national timelines and liaise with the referral management centre as necessary. Audio type patient referrals and submit them through the E-Referral system. Deal with any referral queries from clinicians and patients. Assist patients where necessary to make outpatient appointments. Action requests for medical reports including liaising with patients to confirm consent is obtained and finance to confirm payment is received. Action Subject Access Requests in line with GDPR legislation. Patient records Action applications for registrations ensuring that patients provide all necessary information and are made aware of consent to share information and on-line access to records. Action the transfer of patient records, electronically and in hardcopy. Summarise hardcopy records to ensure the electronic record is complete. Ensure that SystmOne is reconciled to PCSE through GP Links. Return hardcopy records to PCSE for patients who are no longer registered. GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES Confidentiality You shall comply with the General Data Protection Regulations when processing personal data for patients and staff. You must be aware of the Caldicott Principles as they affect your work. You can address any questions in relation to this to your line manager. Any data breaches should be reported immediately to the Data Protection Officer. All enquiries from the media must be referred to a Director. Health and Safety All employees have a statutory duty of care for the safety of themselves and others. Employees are required to report any hazards as soon as they are identified. All staff must contribute to the management of risk. This requires them to assess the risk in all situations, take of appropriate actions to mitigate any risks identified and report all hazards, incidents and near misses. All building occupied by staff are non-smoking environments. No-one may smoke or vape in the building. Staff who smoke or vape outside the buildings should cover their uniform. Flexibility Statement The content of this Job Description represents an outline of the post only and is therefore not a precise catalogue of duties and responsibilities. It is intended to be flexible and subject to amendment in the light of changing circumstances and following consultation with the post holder.

1. Plan, deliver and evaluate compassionate nursing care to meet the patients individualised needs. 2. Ensure the highest standards of care and safety are maintained. 3. To support the nurse in charge with the day to day planning, the delivery of a high quality nursing service and the continuous improvement of that service. 4. To ensure effective communication is achieved and maintained of sensitive information, with regard to the patient assessments and clinical details. 5. To act as a role model, ensuring high quality, professional standards are maintained and delivered at all times. 6. To document observations, assessments, results, decisions and actions. Effectively in patients notes and communicate these effectively to appropriate members of the multidisciplinary team and as appropriate, to carers. 7. Provide legible and comprehensive patient records to agreed Trust and NMC standards and guidelines. 8. To develop and maintain effective communication links with all levels of staff within the Trust and external agencies.

To provide effective dietetic treatment for a delegated caseload of in-patients and out-patients at the Great Western Hospital with support and training provided by senior dietitians to ensure appropriate professional conduct and development. To undertake and develop the dietetic service for a number of general medical and surgical in-patient wards To be responsible for managing appropriate patients referred from ward areas, using local protocols To be responsible for patients fed enterally within own caseload, including periods of cover. To calculate patient requirements and ensure these are met by recommending specialised products and the appropriate administration of these via naso-gastric or gastrostomy tubes. Please see attached Job Description for full details.

1. To undertake refractive assessment and ocular examination for paediatric and adult patients including those with significant visual loss and/or communication difficulties.2. To assess for and dispense low vision aids and contact lenses to patients of all ages.3. To work in an extended role capacity in the Glaucoma, AMD and other ophthalmology clinics alongside medical staff.4. To work closely with colleagues in optometry, orthoptics and ophthalmology for the best management ofthe patient.5. To undertake other clinical duties fundamental to the running of the service.6. To appropriately explain, instruct, motivate and manage patients and the carers during examination and treatment.7. To provide advice and support to patients and those clinical and non-clinical parties affected by the diagnosis and management.

1. To manage the effectiveness and efficiency of the designated specialties within the Division, ensuring therelevant standards are achieved. 2. To monitor the operational performance of the department, escalating issues where appropriate. Thismay involve the analysis and interpretation of complex facts or situations and may involve the comparisonof a range of options. 3. In collaboration with the Assistant General Manager, ensure all performance indicators and nationalstandards are achieved (e.g. RTT, DM01, Cancer Wait times and Time in ED) to deliver a high quality,effective service, where patient experience and patient safety is central. 4. Compile reports and statistical information in line with the Trusts reporting framework. 5. Provide detailed feedback of performance from a variety of information systems at Trust wide and monthlyperformance meetings. 6. To support with data entry and lead data validation. 7. To lead data quality assurance and manage appropriate databases. 8. To support the demand and capacity modelling process, ensuring all capacity is published 6 weeks inadvance. 9. To liaise with outpatients to ensure full utilisation of clinics and managing capacity. 10. To support the investigation of and response to patient complaints, which may be of a sensitive andcomplex nature. Please see the attached JD for further details.

1. Take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating neonatal nursing care on a shift by shift basis consistent with evidence based practice for babies and their families within the special care, high dependency and intensive care nursery, ensuring that fundamental needs for individual babies and parents are met and that care is evaluated and care plans are up to date and relevant. 2. Ensure the safe dispensation of drugs, within Trust and NMC guidelines and maintain knowledge of side effects and other contra-indications. 3. Maintain clinical skills and competencies ensuring ability to meet the needs of the patient. 4. Co-ordinate the effective admission, transfer and discharge of individual children in line with Trust policy. 5. Discuss options and support parents in making informed choice in their plan of care e.g. feeding methods, audiology checks, blood transfusion, and new-born screening programme. 6. Adhere to the Trusts safeguarding policies and procedures and ensure that knowledge and practise enables children to be safeguarded. 7. Promote the importance of the modification of the environment, taking into account the individual developmental needs of the infant e.g. positioning and minimal handling of very low birth weight babies. 8. Work with all members of the team to participate and respond to suggestions and complaints, evaluate patient and carers experience of the service, liaise with the sister in charge, make recommendations and develop the service within the clinical area, implementing agreed actions to improve services. 9. Actively participate in link roles providing verbal and written updates to the team. 10. Promote and actively participate in the Trust and Childrens Services Nursing Strategy 11. Participate in the development of a programme of continuing education for all staff within the team. Act as a mentor to new staff and students and provide a suitable learning environment and provide educational and developmental opportunities, supporting staff in achieving professional competencies and knowledge and ensuring practice within the unit is evidence based. 12. Demonstrate a professional approach to work and act in accordance with Trust Policies and the NMC Code of Professional conduct.

Job advertisement is for the recruitment of two Consultants. The appointed candidates will join an existing team of 6 senior medical staff including Consultants. On joining the department, you will become part of a well-established, friendly team and will help us continue to drive forward improvements in the service that we provide to our patients. As a senior member of the team, you will become a key part in the delivery of training and supervision to our junior colleagues. As a Trust, we place high importance on staff wellbeing, you will be offered a wide variety of support to help you maintain your wellbeing and to help colleagues maintain theirs. The Trusts Health and Wellbeing team has won a National Award during 2020 for the work they have done locally.

Create, design and compile financial spread sheets, use pivot tables to summarise data to create graphs and produce reports for audit purposes. Match up and process invoices ready for payment; obtain missing invoices, query price changes -authorised to allow price increases. Request quotes, add new suppliers and products onto database. Raise invoice and cheque requests. Responsible of monthly stock take of non-stock products. Responsible for maintaining an accurate record of weekly deliveries and collections made. Responsible for various financial reports to show quarterly and yearly spend with suppliers. Provide holiday and sickness cover for Business Support team when required. Utilise financial IT system to search payments made. Attend Prescriber User Group meetings (and take minutes). Build and maintain good relationships with suppliers. Please see the attached job description for full information

You will be a part of an experienced team delivering individual patient care. You will need to be highly motivated and enthusiastic, to help improve both the patient experience and the nursing care. You will be working in an environment that will be a challenge to your organisational skills and one that will enhance your knowledge of various specialties. Duties include: Caring and communication with kindness and compassion Personal Care including catheter care and Incontinence (This includes bodily fluids and faeces) Nutrition and Hydration support Pressure Area Care Collect specimens (routine bodily fluids only) Moving and handling Documentation including food & fluid charts and outcome sheets. Environmental maintenance Performing care in line with risk assessments and care plans Ensure all clinical rooms are stocked up with appropriate clinical forms and patient information sheets. Assist with the preparation of medical notes to facilitate the running of clinics. Escort to other departments (except theatre) Instigate Emergency procedure. Promote person centred values and provide support for patients wellbeing and fulfilment. Please find attached the band 2 and band 3 job description and person specifications.

Management and Leadership Responsibilities: All staff in each Division are managerially accountable through their Lead Clinician to the Associate Medical Director, who has overall responsibility for the services within the Division. Consultants are key members of the Division and are accountable and responsible for leading changes to service that will improve the patient experience. To support the Clinical Lead in policy and strategy development as a senior member of the Divisional Management Team. To contribute to the leadership and development of Services under the direction of the Clinical Lead and Associate Medical Director and in line with the Trusts business plans. The post holder will ensure effective communication and involvement of staff across the Division including support to the Divisional Director to achieve their objectives. Work in partnership with colleagues in other Divisions within the Trust. As part of the Division Management Team, assist in the cost-effective utilisation of resources, including pay and non-pay items such as equipment and drugs, within budgets. Work within the Trusts framework for Clinical Governance and Risk, including the development of clinical policies and adherence to standing orders, standing financial instructions and financial procedures. Undertake direct supervision of junior colleagues and participate in departmental/trust wide teaching programmes. Undertake investigations and report writing for incidents and participate in clinical risk management Appointed candidates will embody the STAR values and use the principles of the NHS Constitution for England to guide decisions. Clinical Governance and Audit All consultants are expected to participate in clinical effectiveness activities. They are expected to maintain and foster improvements in the quality and standards of clinical services. Consultants lead the safeguarding of high standards of care by participating in the creation of environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish. Consultants are expected to support the Clinical/Medical Leadership teams within their division to achieve the following: Production of a Division annual clinical governance plan. Production of a Division quality strategy. Production of a Division quarterly report to the Trusts Clinical Governance and Risk Committee. Ensuring targets within the plan are met, including: Adoption of evidence-based practice including compliance with government guidance, e.g., NICE Establishment and implementation of a Division clinical audit programme Completion of risk assessments as required and compliance with the Trusts risk management policies and strategies including controls assurance standards Encouraging research and development Ensuring, through the Divisional Director, in association with the Division of Workforce and Education, that Division staff meet the education and training targets agreed within the Trusts annual plan. Ensuring through the Divisional Director that complaints management is timely and effective including implementing action plans relating to individual complaints. Contributing to work force planning to ensure timely availability of appropriate clinical skills to maintain excellence in patient care. The department aims to help support and maintain a work life balance. We offer an innovative and sustainable Consultant work pattern. This system balances out of hours work with ample and flexible compensatory time off factored into the job plan. The working week can be arranged for the successful applicant to have a non-working day each week. We can offer job plans of up to 12 PAs on a negotiable basis Further details can be found on the attached Job Description

1. Provide expert advice on Quality Governance / Risk / Patient Safety / Audit / Assurance and support all aspects of Clinical Governance and Patient Safety 2. Develop the consistent and clear use of data to provide assurance and facilitate clinical governance arrangements across the Trust. 3. Monitor the delivery of the Trust Quality Governance framework and oversee routine auditing of the effectiveness of clinical governance arrangements within Divisions (excludes board assurance). 4. Lead the Patient Safety Team to design, implement and maintain quality governance dashboards and reports, data collection tools, reporting and escalation mechanisms across the organisation which facilitate the provision of assurance, transparency and creates an environment where clinical excellence can flourish. 5. Work in consultation with the divisions and the Divisional Governance Facilitators to develop and embed the use of the quality metrics that are monitored, reported on an on-going basis in order to assess and develop the quality of services provided and the effectiveness of leaning responses as defined by PSIRF. 6. Lead the Patient Safety Team to work in consultation with the divisions and the Divisional Governance Facilitators to ensure that information is available in an appropriate format and timely manner, in order to support delivery on the key components of Quality Governance. Assemble and analyse quantitative and qualitative data information in ways that assist staff in reflecting and improving on service delivery and practice, which is both actionable and measurable. 7. Work in consultation with the divisions and the Divisional Governance Facilitators to ensure that constructive challenge is provided to service leads on the delivery of key governance and quality Key Performance Indicators (KPI)s / metrics, escalating to divisional management teams when targets are not met.

1. Responsible for delivering the Trust established clinical skills and Mandatory portfolio for a range of multi-disciplinary staff, responding to changing service demands and feedback from attendees. 2. Contributing to the delivery of the Trusts Induction Programme for all new staff and volunteers. 3. To be an effective trainer, there may be a requirement for attendance in enhanced training in the areas of Immediate Life Support and Conflict Resolution enhanced training, as well as undertaking Fire Warden training under the direction of the Trusts Fire Officer. 4. Participate in Academy evaluation, audit and action planning to develop the programmes to meet changing service needs. 5. To contribute to the development and delivery of training programmes, incorporating practical teaching sessions and low fidelity simulation sessions, designed to inform Trusts acute and community staff regarding clinical skills. 6. Keep up to date with changes in healthcare training requirements, legislation and guidelines. 7. Responsible for timely and cost-effective marketing and promotion of an identified range of training programmes and educational opportunities and as required to disseminate information regarding all training programmes. 8. Contribute to the collation of training compliance rates in association with the Training & Development Coordinator and Data Technology Manager. 9. Report and advise the Training & Development Coordinator of any areas of concern as identified by learners and managers. 10. To be 100% compliant with own mandatory training requirements, as expected to lead by example. 11. To provide / signpost advice and guidance on training and development available for personal development for all staff and line managers. 12. Participate in annual appraisal and personal development planning. Maintain professional competence and develop skills relevant to organisational needs. 13. In association with Trust leads, research and devise a variety of training resources for a variety of clinical and non-clinical, for a variety of relevant topics, including eLearning packages. 14. To undertake clinical duties on a regular basis to maintain clinical knowledge and skills which includes a clinical shift of at least one day per month. 15. To observe a personal duty of care in relation to the safe use of equipment and all resources in a sustainable way to enable recycling and to maintain spending within the budget. 16. To assist in the administration of training when required, including accurate record keeping.

Please see attached job description. The Hepatology Specialist Nurse will provide a service to support the care of patients with varied acute and chronic liver disease through different stages of their care and treatment. You will demonstrate excellent communication skills, the ability to work in dynamic and often novel approaches, you will be organised, motivated and person-centred.You will work alongside the band 7 hepatology CNS and Consultant Hepatologist who will support the development of this role, and specialist training will be given. You will liaise with all members of the multi-disciplinary team. You will play a key role in the development of the Hepatology service within the Trust whilst being proactive in pioneering and developing the role in response to changes in practice and healthcare needs.