Specialist Pharmacist - Education and Training / UCLan Clinical Tutor

Job overview

Applications are invited from enthusiastic, well-motivated, experienced Clinical  Pharmacists with an interest in education and training with a focus on training the next generation of pharmacists in clinical pharmacy skills

This post is joint between UHMB and  UCLan School of Pharmacy to be a Clinical tutor both on site at the university and support learning in the workplace at UHMB. You will also work as part of the UHMB clinical pharmacy team to provide pharmaceutical care to patients in wards and departments within the trust.

You will also provide education and training to a range of healthcare learners including foundation training of doctors within the organisation in conjunction with the Lead Pharmacist for Education and Training

You will need excellent time management and prioritisation skills with the ability to  manage your workload independently, but link in with a range of colleagues on complex issues utilising excellent interpersonal and communication skills. You will contribute to patient safety improvement and medicines optimisation initiatives.

Main duties of the job

• To support the Lead Pharmacist in Education & Training in delivery of high quality education and training to a range of healthcare professionals and students so that they have sufficient skills, knowledge and competence to  meet  the  professional  and  service  standards required by patients, service customers and professional and regulatory bodies

• To work in conjunction with the UCLan School of Pharmacy in delivery of practice based clinical teaching both within the organisation and at the university.

• Provide clinical pharmacy services on wards at UHMB

The post holder will also participate in the pharmacy on-call rota to cover weekday nights at  approximately once per 6 weeks. There may also be the requirement to participate in weekend working as the rota requires.

This post will be based at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary with some requirement to work onsite at UCLan in Preston.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Descriptions and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/