Band 7 Progressional Senior Support Pharmacist

2 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom University Hospitals Birmingham Full time
Job summary

Qualifications, skills, and all relevant experience needed for this role can be found in the full description below.
If you have the vision, drive and enthusiasm to help us deliver an exciting modern pharmacy service and you are a clinical support pharmacist and have a minimum of 9 months post-registration experience in hospital pharmacy, or the ability to demonstrate an equivalent level of knowledge and are ready for the next step in your career then this could be the job for you.
This is a band 6 to 7 development role which involves working as a clinical support pharmacist based at a single site in our rotational programme. You will join the Senior Support Pharmacist rotational pool once you have completed the required competencies to demonstrate you are working at a senior support level. At this level you will work across Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull hospital sites in a 9-month speciality rotation which include acute and general medicine, respiratory, infectious diseases, general surgery and nutrition, specialist surgery and critical care and women's and children's services..
Applicants with 12 months post-registration hospital experience will be appointed in a progressional post under Agenda for Change Annex 21 (payment at 75% of the maximum band 7 pay), uplifted to the starting pay of a band 7 as per Agenda for Change on completion of the first year of clinical diploma or NHSE/RPS Newly Qualified Pharmacist Pathway. All applicants will then progress on to the independent prescribing course.
Main duties, tasks & skills required
You will deliver a high quality specialist clinical pharmacy service, and there will be a strong emphasis on supporting you in developing leadership and mentoring skills to the next level.
You will be introduced to core directorate activities - reporting and analysis of medicines expenditure, clinical governance and risk management activities, including review of PGDs and relevant policies. You will have the opportunity to train clinically to provide a neonatal intensive care service and neonatal parenteral nutrition.
In addition you will take on enhanced roles relating to education and training, such as developing training programmes and involvement with training of new doctors. You will have responsibility for the supervision of less experienced members of the team including junior pharmacists and trainee pharmacists.
You will be a highly motivated individual and a team player with well-developed communication skills and a desire to use your knowledge, skills and experience to improve patient care and influence healthcare professionals in the best use of medicines.
You will join a team of clinical pharmacists who provide the on-call service with a back-up provided by the Specialist and Advanced Clinical Pharmacists.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
*Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
*Has completed or is near completion (within the next 6 months) a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification.
*To be willing to work towards a non-medical prescribing qualification
*Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Desirable
*Has commenced a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification (applicable for Annex 21 roles)
Experience
Essential
*Post-registration work experience as a pharmacist in hospital pharmacy, covering a range of specialties, or the ability to demonstrate the equivalent level of knowledge
*Previous participation in multi- disciplinary team
*Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for providing high quality pharmaceutical care
*Experience of teaching/presenting to other healthcare professionals/patients
*Commitment to own Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
*Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in hospital pharmacy
*Knowledge of national initiatives and guidelines, e.g. NICE, NSF
*Possesses knowledge of available resources to answer Medicines Information queries
*Able to work with drug budget information
*Demonstrates good knowledge of hospital clinical pharmacy and current issues
Additional Criteria
Essential
*Professional manner
*Well motivated and reliable
*Able to work with all grades of staff
*Capacity to work calmly under pressure
*Ability to travel across all Trust sites as required by job role
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

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