Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

4 weeks ago

Middlesbrough, Middlesbrough, United Kingdom South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job Overview

The pharmacy team at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to join their pain and palliative care team as a fixed-term part-time contract. This role is designed to support the development of advanced level practice for pharmacists.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to provide specialist medicines optimisation, leadership, and innovative service development and improvement. The role will involve delivering safe, efficient, and cost-effective pain and palliative care services to patients within South Tees NHS Foundation Trust and across the wider integrated care system.

Applicants should be enthusiastic, passionate, and possess great interpersonal skills. They will be keen to take on a new challenge and able to work using their own initiative to balance and manage the requirements of the specialist pain, palliative care, and hospice teams, patients, carers, and other stakeholders.

Main Duties of the Job

  • Lead, deliver, and evaluate clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation services across the specialist pain and palliative care teams.
  • Ensure optimum medicines management within pain and palliative care services, in accordance with relevant professional, ethical, legal, and locally agreed policies, procedures, guidelines, and standards.
  • Provide a direct clinical pharmacy service to Teesside Hospice, one session (four hours) per week.
  • Offer specialist pharmacist advice, guidance, and information on treatment choices across the multidisciplinary teams in pain, palliative care, and Teesside Hospice.
  • Attend and actively participate in specialist ward rounds, clinic settings, and other patient reviews.
  • Provide education and training across pharmacy and the multidisciplinary teams within pain and palliative care.

Working for Our Organisation

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential Criteria

  • Wealth of experience in clinical pharmacy within a hospital setting.
  • Experience of providing directorate-level pharmacist services, budgetary reports, drug usage reviews, and developments of protocols and policies.
  • Experience of developing strong professional relationships with other healthcare professionals.
  • Experience of leading and contributing to relevant research, audit, and service improvement projects.
  • Experience of involvement in multidisciplinary service development.

Desirable Criteria

  • Staff leadership and management experience.
  • Experience in mentorship and training for other staff.
  • Teaching experience in clinical and classroom settings.

Qualifications

Essential Criteria

  • Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent.
  • Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
  • Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent relevant postgraduate clinical qualification.
  • Pharmacist independent prescribing accreditation or actively working towards qualification.
  • Evidence of CPD and ongoing education.

Desirable Criteria

  • Relevant postgraduate clinical qualification.
  • Membership with Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).
  • Working towards RPS advanced clinical practice or consultancy frameworks.

Knowledge and Skills

Essential Criteria

  • Ability to apply theoretical knowledge to clinical practice.
  • Involvement in the development of evidence-based clinical guidelines, policies, and protocols.
  • Strong knowledge of medicines information resources.

Desirable Criteria

  • Membership of regional/national/international specialist interest groups relevant to the field of practice.

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