Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Acute Medicine and Admissions

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Acute Medicine and Admissions

Band 8a

Job overview

NHS Band 8a Salary:£57,528 - £64,750 per annum

Hours per Week: full time 37.5

Contract Type: Permanent

We are recruiting for a Advanced Clinical Pharmacist who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “working together, improving together”.

Permanent opportunities for up to full-time working if desired.

The Pharmacy department which is based out of St Mary’s Hospital is energetic and forward looking, with a strong culture of patient safety and service quality. We believe in technology supporting excellent clinical practice and releasing time to care, with electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) embedded in practice across the Trust and used creatively to enhance clinical practice. This is along with a fully integrated medicines management system which interfaces EPMA seamlessly with dispensing, stock control, and automation/robotics throughout the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Working for our organisation

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust’s beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to provide leadership within the pharmacy team and across the Trust in clinical areas as required. Working with internal and external stakeholders whilst accountable to the Trust Chief Pharmacist.
Key responsibilities will be:
Leading, co-ordinating, delivering and developing clinical services within admissions across the emergency floor.

Development of policies, procedures, guidelines, risk assessments and audits.

Promoting a culture of medicines safety to minimise harm, optimising learning from incidents and responding to safety alerts.

Supervising, training, and supporting the development of pharmacy staff and other health care professionals

• Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree or equivalent
• Current listing on the Pharmacist Register with the GPhC.
• Diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent experience.
• Completed general level framework competency training or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience of working in a pharmaceutical environment.
• Significant clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience. Significant experience of working in hospital pharmacy.
• Knowledge of national guidelines relating to medicines and pharmaceutical practice.
• Specialist knowledge and experience in clinical speciality.

Physical Skills

• Able to work at a continuous level of high concentration.
• Articulate and numerate.
• Accurate and precise.
• Honest, trustworthy, reliable and discrete.
• Clean and presentable in appearance.
• Enthusiastic and willing to learn.
• Adaptable and innovative in approach to work and projects.
• Uses initiative and open to change/use of technology and extended roles.
• Willing to participate in personal development and prepared to work outside “normal” working hours.

Abilities

• Able to record information accurately.
• Able to work as part of a team or as an individual with a flexible approach to duties. Customer care.
• Able to share learning with others.
• Able to interpret complex clinical data.
• Ability to relate well at all levels within the NHS.
• Able to negotiate with other healthcare professionals in relation to pharmaceutical care of patients
• Ability to work effectively with senior clinical personnel.

Communication Skills

• Fluent in oral and written English
• Approachable and diplomatic.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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