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Are you fed up with being fed up at work?
Applications from band 6 and above welcome to apply medicine chest is not on agenda for change terms
At The Medicine Chest pharmacy we believe in breaking the mould and doing things differently! We are situated in the heart of the city within the Birmingham Children’s Hospital and offer a world-class specialist paediatric service to over 900,000 children annually. Our new branch in the Birmingham Women’s’ Hospital, Edgbaston, offers outstanding specialist care to Women of all backgrounds and we would like to invite you to challenge your beliefs of what pharmacy teams can achieve!
At the heart of the city, we have excellent transportation links, a caring team with teamwork at the centre of everything we do and provide specialist training and development bespoke to your needs in a world-renowned specialist institution.
TMC are proud to say we have a dynamic pharmacy team that collaborate across the hospital to provide safe, effective, and efficient care to all those who come through our doors. Our brand of pharmacy aims to promote a happy, supportive, and empowering environment to each and every one of our team members to thrive in a fast-paced, highly rewarding environment. We are committed to growth and development and we believe in investing in our staff, so they can invest in our patients!
But don’t take our word for it! Please see the full advert attached for what our current staff have to say:
Main duties of the job
- To lead, develop and deliver the clinical pharmacy service to ensure all patients receive outstanding pharmaceutical care
- To supervise, motivate and support the team to ensure smooth and efficient flow of work.
- To work with the Pharmacy and wider multidisciplinary teams to deliver quality improvement projects to enhance patient care, efficiency and safety across a number of clinical areas.
- Provide exceptional customer service, addressing enquiries and concerns of patients, families, and healthcare staff with professionalism and empathy.
- Work in close coordination with pharmacists and healthcare professionals to ensure proper medication management for paediatric patients
- Utilise pharmacy software systems to process prescriptions and maintain accurate documentation
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description attached for full details:
- Provide a clinical pharmacy service to allocated clinics to ensure that medicines prescribed are safe, economic and appropriate to individual patient needs.
- Monitor and review individual patient prescriptions to ensure safe/appropriate prescribing.
- Provide professional supervision in the outpatient dispensary to protect patient safety in line with the current Pharmacist’s Code of Ethics. This includes being able to intervene and advise on the dispensing of outpatient prescriptions and to professionally assess the suitability of each prescription for the patient.
- Operationally manage the dispensary as required in the dispensing of medicines, utilising the pharmacy computer system for data recording. To ensure the timely supply of medicines to inpatients and outpatients.
- Contribute to the development of procedures and protocols relevant to the role e.g. clinical pharmacy procedures, relevant dispensary based procedures.
- Lead, develop and deliver the clinical pharmacy service to ensure all patients receive outstanding pharmaceutical care.
- Co- ordinate the day-to-day duties, overseeing any additional duties required, identifying any gaps and devising a plan to manage them.
- Supervise, motivate and support the team to ensure smooth and efficient flow of work.
- To deputise for the Principal Pharmacist as required
- Work with the Pharmacy and wider multidisciplinary teams to deliver service improvement projects to enhance patient care, efficiency, quality and safety across a number of clinical areas.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- Able to act as a role model for patient care
- Able to use my leadership skills to engage staff in my vision involving them, using great communication and recognising their contributions.
- Able to understand the complex clinical and social needs of patients and families and to meet those needs whenever possible
- Able to understand complex clinical situations and to discuss and make recommendations to resolve issues arising from them with medical, nursing and other staff
- Able to use a variety of computer software to organise and present information
- Able to work independently, prioritise, set goals and meet deadlines.
- Able to identify issues and use own initiative to address them.
- Able to maintain standards and accuracy whilst working under pressure.
Desirable
- Previous pharmacy management experience.
- Previous experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services to neonatal/ paediatric patients and staff specialising in neonatology/ paediatrics
- Previous experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services to a Women’s directorate.
- Previous experience of providing medicines information in a clinical context.
- Previous experience and knowledge of audit
- Awareness of requirements towards CQC and NHSLA standards for medicines management
Disposition
Essential
- Good team player.
- Ability to communicate effectively with patients and their families, and colleagues.
- Trustworthy and respectful of confidential information about both patients and colleagues
- Adaptable to change in working practices and flexible in terms of working hours on an occasional basis.
- Able to remain professional in busy circumstances
Qualifications
Essential
- B/M.Pharm
- On the register of the GPhC
- Good spoken and written English, and numeracy.
Desirable
- Post-graduate qualification
- Member of the Faculty of the RPS
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This advert is for Clinical Pharmacist with Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham, Midlands, England. It is listed as a Pharmacist role. The advertised salary is per annum. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 27 Jul 2026.
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