Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - General Medicine

Job overview

Advanced Specialist pharmacist - general medicine

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated Clinical Pharmacist to be an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team working within our general medical wards supporting  patients. You will be responsible for the provision of a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service across the inpatient medical beds, and out patients within our Trust, working with Medicines Management Technicians and Rotational Pharmacists to deliver a high quality clinical pharmacy service to patients.

Our friendly department provides an environment that supports learning, team working and encourages individuals to develop in their role.

We are looking for someone with extensive clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience; you will have excellent communication, clinical and negotiation skills along with a strong team spirit and experience of supervising other staff.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• The leadership and proactive development of specialist clinical pharmacy services to patients within medicine collaboratives.
• Providing highly specialist clinical pharmacy services to general medicine  and developing services in line with appropriate national standards.
• Providing expert and highly specialised pharmaceutical information and advice to medical staff, nursing staff, other healthcare professionals and patients, both within the Trust and externally as appropriate.
• To work as an independent prescriber developing the role for designated areas of clinical practice.
• Work collaboratively with other clinicians and health-care providers to implement and maintain innovative disease management programs and clinical pharmacy services
• Providing clinical training, guidance, support and supervision of training grade pharmacists, foundation pharmacists, other Pharmacy staff and other Trust staff as required.
• Promoting the medicines optimisation agenda by leading specific audit and research projects in the agreed specialty and provide support to others.
• Monitoring expenditure within the agreed specialty against medicines budget, identifying and implementing cost saving initiatives.
• Evaluating and expanding the role of pharmacy services within our clinical areas, as well as delivering the required medication safety and governance agendas.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL).  Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts.  Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.

• Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
• If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

Important Information

Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.

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• Junk Mail is checked regularly

Disclosure and Barring Service:

On 28 November 2020, the new Disclosure and Barring Service filtering rules will come into effect.

The changes mean that:

• youth cautions, reprimands and final warnings will no longer be subject to automatic disclosure
• the multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than being automatically disclosed.

If you are unsure about whether you need to disclose certain criminal record information, free confidential advice may be sought from one of the charity bodies listed below. These bodies can advise you on what you are legally required to declare and may also be able to advise you on how you can disclose criminal record information to a prospective employer and your legal rights when doing so.

Nacro – Tel: 0300 123 1999, or email: [email protected]

Unlock – Tel: 01634 247350, email [email protected] or complete the online form on the Unlock website

The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children therefore if the post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended) the successful candidate(s) will be subject to a criminal records check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:

Standard Check: £18 + Administration cost of £3.85 = £21.85. Deducted at £6.85 from 1st month salary and £5 deducted from salary over following 3 months.

Enhanced Check: £38 + administration cost of £3.90 = £41.90. Deducted at £11.90 from 1st month salary and £10 deducted from salary over following 3 months.

As part of the one of the largest employers in the UK NCIC future employees will have also access to the following benefits.

A lease car may be available for this position; further details will be provided upon appointment if applicable.

27 day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years

Flexible working Scheme

Excellent opportunities for development

Competitive NHS Pension scheme

Access to NHS discounts with retailers and leisure companies

EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems

These schemes are subject to availability