Innovative recruitment scheme set to enhance medicines management
strategy
A hospital trust has introduced a radical recruitment strategy in order to implement a patient-centred service.
Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust is offering new recruits unrestricted
flexible working so long as it means it can deliver its new pharmacy
strategy across its three acute sites.
The trust needs to boost its pharmacy team by 30 per cent to meet the
recommendations outlined in the Audit Commission report ‘A Spoonful
of Sugar’ — a blueprint for the future of pharmacy services.
Head of pharmaceutical services for Pinderfields General Hospital and
Pontefract General Infirmary John Fretwell, who has helped
develop the trust’s patient-centred strategy, said: “We are
looking to expand our pharmacy service but given the potential recruitment
difficulties in pharmacy we knew we had to think innovatively.
“What we are saying to potential employees is ‘tell us what
you can do and we will take you, if it fits in with the service that
we want
to deliver’. We don’t want to put people off by saying you
have got to work 9am-5pm and Saturdays.
“We want to find out what they can do and see if we can put a plan
together to give us the range of services that we want to deliver. We
don’t
want to rule anything out at this stage.”
The trust currently has 34 pharmacists and 41 pharmacy technicians at
the three trust sites.
It wants to employ an extra nine pharmacists and six technicians in order
to establish a £525,000 a patient-centred medicines management
system at Dewsbury District Hospital, Pontefract General Infirmary and
Pinderfields General Hospital.
An open forum for pharmacy recruitment is being held at Pinderfields
General Hospital in Wakefield on Monday September 15 from 1.30pm–4pm.
Details from Nichola Lazenby (pharmacy office co-ordinator) on 01924
212265
or email nichola.lazenby@panp-r.northy.nhs.uk
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