Advanced Specialist Pharmacist - Clinical Education

Job overview

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals is a large acute trust with specialities including Tertiary services for Haematology, Cardiology and Adult CF. We are a progressive department of over 150 staff providing a comprehensive and well-developed pharmacy service.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an individual to work within our Education and Training team to provide a comprehensive and high-quality clinical medicine and therapeutics education and training programme. Although the emphasis will be on medical education there will be scope to be involved with all clinical education in conjunction with the Lead pharmacist.

This key post within the department requires an enthusiastic pharmacist with excellent interpersonal and communication skills and a sound clinical knowledge.

This post is attractive to the candidate with a keen interest in developing services and shaping future healthcare professionals whilst maintaining their clinical skills.

This role has 2 main components incorporating an extensive involvement in the medical education team and a strong clinical ward commitment.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

It is expected you will have a clinical ward commitment to maintain and develop your skills within a speciality. This will also allow you to develop trainee and junior pharmacists whilst they are on rotation through that speciality. Opportunities to take on Trainee pharmacist supervision and mentoring for clinical diploma students is also available.

Depending on the individual there may be potential to study for a further post grad teaching or clinical qualifications.

Applicant requirements

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.