Band 6/7 Senior Support Pharmacist

1 month ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Do you have the vision and enthusiasm to help us deliver a modern pharmacy service?

We are seeking a motivated and experienced Pharmacist to join our Clinical Pharmacy Team at the Queen Elizabeth site as a Senior Support Pharmacist.

The successful applicant will become part of a large clinical pharmacy team. They will work closely with the Specialist Pharmacist for Surgery, medical practitioners and nursing team members. Through managing and supporting band 6 pharmacists and clinical pharmacy technicians you will work to support and improve patient stay in hospital whilst retaining direct patient contact.

You will need an ability to develop effective working relationships, to challenge and to prioritise your own work as well as the work of the team.

University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is an incredibly rewarding place to work. You have the opportunity to make a real difference to patients and their families, and the wider community

Some of the benefits of joining our team:

Excellent learning and development opportunities completing a structured development program to be able to deliver a specialist service and be embedded within the clinical area.

Dedicated protected learning during work hours to help facilitate your development.

Opportunities to work as part of an MDT

Access to trust health and wellbeing initiatives and a variety of staff networks.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic clinical pharmacist who has the skill set to work within a specialist clinical area. You need to be motivated with good 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 have a patient facing role supporting the specialty within surgical team understanding treatment pathways. You will be supported to undertake standalone NMP course or if already achieved in another area develop your knowledge into this field.

Duties will be to provide clinical input to the Surgical wards and to demonstrate expert knowledge in the clinical speciality. You will be delivering a service in accordance with the priorities set by the Chief Pharmacist and the Trust agreed standards including -

-Appropriately manage difficult and ambiguous problems.

-Make decisions with limited information.

-Demonstrate an advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement.

-Demonstrate an intuitive grasp of situations

-Ensure the clinical services provided are of a high standard and that all prescribed medication is clinically screened in a timely manner. Provide daily clinical pharmacy services to the General Surgical wards.

-to understand and deliver Cost Improvement Programs (CIP) to support the speciality and department. In addition completion of audits and Quality Improvement Project (QIP) to present to the speciality meetings will be supported.

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

Job responsibilities

*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, 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

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