Foundation Training Year (FTY) Supervisor - Clinical Pharmacist Band 7

Job details

• Branch: Southern HSC Trust area (SHSCT)
• Location: Rotational between CAH and DHH
• Directorate: Adult Community and Acute Services
• Salary: Band 7 (£47,810 - £54,710)
• Contract Type: Permanent
• Opening Date: 28/05/26
• Closes: Thu, 11 June 2026 @ 4:00 PM
• Interview Dates: To be confirmed

Notes

Important Information If you are submitting a manual application, please post it to: Recruitment Shared Services, Rosewood Villa, Longstone Hospital Site, 73 Loughgall Road, Armagh, BT61 7PR. Applications received after the advertised closing date/time cannot be considered, so please allow enough time for postage. “A waiting list may be created for similar posts that may arise while the waiting list is live, this may include temporary or part-time posts. This will be managed in line with the updated HSC waiting list principles effective from 1 April 2026. Where a part-time waiting list is required, one part-time waiting list will be created- regardless of any specific hours advertised, this waiting list will cover all future vacancies where part-time posts arise. A part-time post is defined as any post that has less than 37.5 hours per week.” Please remember to save or print a copy of the job description before submitting your application, as it will not be accessible afterwards. Flexible Working We welcome flexible working requests from day one. All HSC organisations offer a range of flexible working options. The options available for this post will depend on the requirements of the role. Find out more about flexible working options on our website.

JOB DESCRIPTION

JOB TITLE

Trust Foundation Training Year (FTY) Supervisor - Clinical Pharmacist

BAND

DIRECTORATE

INITIAL LOCATION

7 with on call

Medicine & Unscheduled Care

These posts will rotate between Craigavon Area Hospital and Daisy Hill Hospital. In order to meet the needs of the Trust’s services you may be required to work elsewhere in the Southern Trust.

REPORTS TO

Foundation Training Year (FTY) Lead Pharmacist/ Assistant Head of Pharmacy - Clinical Services Lead

ACCOUNTABLE TO

FLEXIBLE WORKING PROVISIONS AVAILABLE

Head of Pharmacy and Medicines Management

Full-time working, Fixed working patterns, Part-time working, Flexi-time, Compressed/elongated hours, Average hours working patterns, Job-share

JOB SUMMARY

The Pharmacist appointed will be a member of the pharmacy team providing pharmaceutical services to the Southern Health and Social Services Trust. In order to meet the overall mission of the Trust the post holder will:

Assist the Trust Foundation Training Year (FTY) Lead Pharmacist with the delivery and quality control of the FTY programme within the Trust.

Act as an Educational Supervisor (ES) and provide support to others undertaking the role of Educational Supervisors.

Act as Designated Pharmacist Practitioner (DPP) for the FTY trainees and provide support to others undertaking the role of DPP.

Work as a Clinical Pharmacist providing a clinical pharmacy service to inpatient wards and clinics.

Work as a pharmacist independent prescriber within the Clinical Pharmacy Service.

Deputise for the Trust Foundation Training Year (FTY) Lead Pharmacist if required and when appropriate.

KEY DUTIES / RESPONSIBILITIES

Main Responsibilities

Assist the Foundation training Year (FTY) Lead Pharmacist with the delivery and evaluation of the foundation training year (FTY) programme within the Trust, in line with GPhC/PSNI standards and in collaboration with NICPLD.

Act as an Educational Supervisor (ES) and provide support to others undertaking the role of ES.

Act as a role model and leader for FTY trainees, promoting the role of the hospital pharmacist and demonstrate appropriate professional behaviours.

Able to set and maintain appropriate professional boundaries with FTY trainees.

Act as a Designated Pharmacist Practitioner (DPP) for FTY trainees and provide support to others undertaking the role of DPP.

Contribute to the teaching and assessment of clinical pharmacy skills that support professional practice, such as consultation skills, examination skills, medicines reconciliation, clinical reasoning, decision-making and prescribing.

Can competently teach, assess and monitor, as appropriate, the FTY trainee skills, knowledge, behaviours and understanding.

Engage with other stakeholders within the Trust to assist with delivery of FTY programme.

Provide support and train other pharmacists within the Trust about all aspects of the FTY programme.

Liaise with practice supervisors (PS) to evaluate the performance and monitor FTY trainee progress during hospital placement.

Raise issues and concerns about a FTY trainee pharmacists’ progress/capability/development with NICPLD as soon as issues arise.

Support FTY trainees in their learning.

Plan and organise own work according to agreed objectives and timeframes for the designated area.

Deputise for the Trust Foundation Training Year (FTY) Lead Pharmacist if required and when appropriate.

Provision of clinical pharmacy services

Be an active Pharmacist Independent Prescriber within the Clinical Pharmacy Service, registered with the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland and the Trust in line with local NMP policies.

Participate in the provision of a high quality clinical pharmacy service to patients to ensure the safe, effective and economic use of medicines.

Obtain a comprehensive and accurate medication history and complete medicines reconciliation on admission to ensure that patients receive the correct and appropriate medicine in a timely manner.

Manage patient’s own drugs to ensure effective prescribing and patient safety at all times.

Optimise patients’ medication on admission, during the inpatient stay and at discharge in accordance with patients’ diagnosis and assess treatment options available.

Review inpatient prescriptions to include identification of complex drug regimens, drug interactions, adverse drug reactions and rationalisation of medicines.

Develop good working relationships with the other members of the healthcare team representing the pharmacy profession and demonstrating professional accountability.

Negotiate and influence changes in prescribing practice to ensure that medication use is safe, effective and evidence based.

Proactively contribute to therapeutic decisions concerning patient management.

Provide high level of medicine and patient safety information to relevant stakeholders, as part of the multidisciplinary team using professional judgement to make clinical decisions where limited information is available.

Work in conjunction with the medical staff to prepare timely discharge prescriptions and prescribe discharge medications when necessary.

To complete medicines reconciliation for patients at the point of discharge to ensure an accurate and complete transfer of care is provided to primary healthcare professionals in a timely manner.

Provide advice and counselling to patients and their carers on the proper and informed use of medicines prior to discharge. This includes the provision of written or verbal information to patients with difficult behaviour or those with impaired cognitive function or impaired senses.

Ensure that delivery of pharmaceutical care to patients in the defined clinical area meets both national and local standards.

To reduce risk associated with medicines, report incidents and near misses in line with Trust policy and participate in incident investigations.

To participate in the supply and dispensing of pharmaceutical products and the provision of patient services.

Identify and respond to the specialist pharmaceutical information needs of patients, carers, doctors, nurses and other members of the healthcare team.

To ensure safe systems of working and compliance with written procedures.

To ensure that medicines are stored securely and appropriately at ward level in compliance with legislation and the Trust’s Medicines Code.

Assist in benchmarking the clinical pharmacy service and contribute to the development of performance indicators to monitor effectiveness and patient benefit.

COMMUNICATION AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

Communicate effectively with staff and maintain productive working relationships amongst your staff and with others.

To ensure the maintenance of appropriate documentation and records.

Report and record all accidents, untoward incidents, sickness and absence within your area of responsibility using appropriate forms.

Deal with and report complaints in keeping with Trust policy and assist with investigations when necessary.

QUALITY

To ensure that the needs of patients and their carers are at the core of the way that the Trust delivers services.

To ensure that the output and quality of the service is maintained in relation to short and longer term objectives.

To provide a service in accordance with published standards and local policies.

Work within the Trusts’ governance framework to ensure policies and procedures meet relevant statutory requirements, professional standards, policy guidance and workforce and regulatory requirements.

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

Act as a role model and demonstrate the ability to provide safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of medicines for pharmacy staff.

To motivate and maintain staff relationships and morale.

Report any signs of ill health/stress in colleagues.

Supervise and support the junior pharmacists and technical staff working within your area on a daily basis.

Utilise the skill set of the pharmacy team working in your designated clinical area and delegate tasks when appropriate.

TRAINING AND EDUCATION

Participate in the training of undergraduate MPharm university students.

Participate in the mentoring, teaching and training of pharmacists on the Foundation Programme.

Act as a supervisor to pharmacists undertaking the Independent Prescribing and/or Advanced Practice/MSc qualifications.

To participate in pharmacy education sessions.

To contribute to the education and training of medical, nursing staff and other healthcare workers.

Complete continuing professional development (CPD) in accordance with Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland requirements and apply knowledge gained to current and future work as appropriate.

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

To collect and collate all relevant activity data for clinical service evaluation.

Maintain Good Clinical Practice training for Clinical Trials and participate in the dispensing of trial products when needed.

Undertake clinical audit and quality improvement projects in your designated clinical area.

Participate in research projects relevant to your clinical practice

Participate in the preparation of conference presentations, posters, writing reports and the writing up of publications.

ADDITIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES/ DUTIES

Comply with all Trust policies and procedures relevant to area of work.

Complete and maintain mandatory training requirements for your role.

Support the Trust in defending legal actions and participate in tribunals as required.

Acquire and/or retain the core technology skills required to support the use of digital healthcare systems e.g. Encompass.

To participate in the pharmacy dispensary rota.

Promote team working among other areas within pharmacy e.g. patient services, cancer services and procurement.

To ensure appropriate security measures are employed in the pharmacy department and in your designated clinical area.

To participate in the provision of other pharmaceutical services as required.

Support the Trust in its drive for seven day working in order to ensure it best meets the needs of our patients.

To participate in extended hours duties and bank holiday working as part of the pharmacy department rotas.

To participate in the weekend rota as per the needs of the pharmacy service.

To participate in the out-of-hours emergency on-call rota.

Any other duties as required in response to changing demands of the service.

HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

Encourage and empower others in their team to achieve their goals and reach their full potential through regular supportive conversation and shared decision making.

Promote a culture of openness and honesty to enable shared learning.

Review individually, at least annually, the performance of immediately subordinate staff, provides guidance on personal development requirements and advises on and initiates, where appropriate, further training.

Maintain staff relationships and morale amongst the staff reporting to him/her.

Review the organisation plan and establishment level of the service for which he/she is responsible to ensure that each is consistent with achieving objectives, and recommend change where appropriate.

Delegate appropriate responsibility and authority to the level of staff within his/her control consistent with effective decision making, while retaining overall responsibility and accountability for results.

Participate, as required, in the selection and appointment of staff reporting to him/her in accordance with procedures laid down by the Trust.

Adhere to and promote Organisational policy and procedure in all staffing matters, participating as appropriate in a way which underpins The Organisation’s values.

Take such action as may be necessary in disciplinary matters in accordance with procedures laid down by the Trust.

RAISING CONCERNS – RESPONSIBILITIES

The post holder will promote and support effective team working, fostering a culture of openness and transparency.

The post holder will ensure that they take all concerns raised with them seriously and act in accordance with the Trust’s ‘Your Right to Raise a Concern (Whistleblowing)’ policy and their professional code of conduct, where applicable.

GENERAL REQUIREMENTS

The post holder will be required to

Assist the organisation in fulfilling its statutory duties under Section 75 of the Northern Ireland Act 1998 to promote equality of opportunity and good relations and under the Disability Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 2006. Staff are also required to support the organisation in complying with its obligations under Human Rights Legislation.

Ensure the Organisation’s policy on equality of opportunity is promoted through his/her own actions and those of any staff for whom he/she has responsibility.

Co-operate fully with the implementation of The Organisation's Health and Safety arrangements, reporting any accidents/incidents/equipment defects to his/her manager, and maintaining a clean, uncluttered and safe environment for patients/clients, members of the public and staff.

Adhere at all times to all Trust policies/codes of conduct, including for example

Smoke Free policy

IT Security Policy and Code of Conduct

standards of attendance, appearance and behaviour

Contribute to ensuring the highest standards of environmental cleanliness within your designated area of work.

Co-operate fully with regard to Trust policies and procedures relating to infection prevention and control.

Take responsibility to minimise the Trust’s environmental impact wherever possible. This will include recycling, switching off lights, computers, monitors and equipment when not in use. Helping to reduce paper waste by minimising printing/copying and reducing water usage, reporting faults and heating/cooling concerns promptly and minimising travel.

All employees of the Organisation are legally responsible for all records held, created or used as part of their business within the [org name] including patients/clients, corporate and administrative records whether paper-based or electronic and also including emails. All such records are public records and are accessible to the general public, with limited exceptions, under the Freedom of Information act 2000 the Environmental Information Regulations 2004, the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018. Employees are required to be conversant with the [org name] policy and procedures on records management and to seek advice if in doubt.

Take responsibility for his/her own ongoing learning and development, in order to maximise his/her potential and continue to meet the demands of the post.

Represent The Organisation’s commitment to providing the highest possible standard of service to patients/clients and members of the public, by treating all those with whom he/she comes into contact in the course of work, in a pleasant, courteous and respectful manner.

This Job Description will be subject to review in the light of changing circumstances and is not intended to be rigid and inflexible but should be regarded as providing guidelines within which the individual works. Other duties of a similar nature and appropriate to the grade may be assigned from time to time.

It is a standard condition that all Trust staff may be required to serve at any location within The Organisation's area, as needs of the service demand.

November 2024

PERSONNEL SPECIFICATION

JOB TITLE AND BAND

Trust Foundation Training Year (FTY) Supervisor - Clinical Pharmacist

DEPARTMENT / DIRECTORATE

Medicine & Unscheduled Care

SALARY

Band 7 with on call

HOURS

37.5 hours per week (part-time hours may be considered)

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

SECTION 1: The following are ESSENTIAL criteria which will initially be measured at shortlisting stage although may also be further explored during the interview/selection stage. You should therefore make it clear on your application form whether or not you meet these criteria. Failure to do so may result in you not being shortlisted. The stage in the process when the criteria will be measured is stated below.

Factor

Criteria

Method of Assessment

Qualifications/ Registration

MPharm in Pharmacy or equivalent

Shortlisting by Application Form

Registered with the Pharmaceutical Society of Northern Ireland (PSNI) or eligible to register

Pharmacist Independent Prescriber

Experience

3 years post registration experience

Shortlisting by Application Form

At least one year experience in hospital pharmacy or

At least one year experience as a GP Practice pharmacist

Other

Hold a current full driving licence which is valid for use in the UK and have access to a car on appointment.

To be able to participate in the emergency duty rota applicants must be able to reach the hospital within 45 minutes when on call.

This criteria will be waived in the case of applicants whose disability prohibits driving but who have access to a form of transport approved by The Organisation which will permit them to carry out the duties of the post.

Shortlisting by Application Form

SECTION 2: The following are ESSENTIAL criteria which will be measured during the interview/ selection stage:

Skills / Abilities

Excellent communication skills to meet the needs of the post in full

Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all relevant professionals.

Self-management skill with regard to time management

Self-motivation and ability to work to tight time scales whilst meeting deadlines.

Ability to identify solutions to problems and implement them effectively.

Excellent influencing and negotiating skills.

Demonstrate a commitment to the provision of high quality and safe services with an ability to drive a culture of continuous improvement.

High motivation and drive in order to actively develop the pharmaceutical service.

Ability to use Microsoft office products including at least one of the core packages i.e. Outlook (Email), Word, Excel or PowerPoint.

Interview

Knowledge

Knowledge of New Standards for the Initial Education and Training of pharmacists

Knowledge of the job

Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Medicines Management.

Knowledge of current trends in the HSC impacting on Pharmacy Services.

Interview

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

SECTION 3: these will ONLY be used where it is necessary to introduce additional job related criteria to ensure files are manageable. You should therefore make it clear on your application form how you meet these criteria. Failure to do so may result in you not being shortlisted

Factor

Criteria

Method of Assessment

Qualifications

Completed and passed NICPLD Post-reg Foundation programme (FP1 & FP2 or old Foundation Programme course)/equivalent vocational training programme/ Postgraduate diploma in an area relevant to pharmacy or willing to undertake any of the above.

Shortlisting by Application Form

May 2026

Notes to applicants

You must clearly demonstrate on your application form under each question, how you meet the required criteria as failure to do so may result in you not being shortlisted. You should clearly demonstrate this for both the essential and desirable criteria.

Shortlisting will be carried out on the basis of the essential criteria set out in Section 1 below, using the information provided by you on your application form. Please note The Organisation reserves the right to use any desirable criteria outlined in Section 3 at shortlisting. You must clearly demonstrate on your application form how you meet the desirable criteria.

Proof of qualifications and/or professional registration will be required if an offer of employment is made – if you are unable to provide this, the offer may be withdrawn.

As part of the Recruitment & Selection process it may be necessary for The Organisation to carry out an Enhanced Disclosure Check through Access NI before any appointment to this post can be confirmed.

THE ORGANISATION IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYER

Successful applicants

may be required to attend for a Health Assessment

can expect to be placed at the minimum point of the pay scale, although a higher starting salary, within the range of the pay band may be available if the person appointed has experience relevant & equivalent to the post. If the successful candidate is an existing HSC employee moving to a higher band, AfC Pay on Promotion will apply.

are able to request Flexible Working from the 1st day of their employment. A number of flexible working provisions are offered by all HSC Organisations including Full-time working, Fixed working patterns, Part-time working, Flexi-time, Compressed/elongated hours, Average hours working patterns, Term-time working, Job-share or Homeworking for some or all of the working pattern, depending on the role being undertaken. Successful applicants are encouraged to discuss with their manager what Flexible Working provisions may be available in the role they are taking up, prior to commencing employment, to help them achieve a positive Work/Life Balance.

All staff are expected to display the HSC Values at all times