Specialist Pharmacists Band 7 – ESM

Job overview

Are you looking for a new challenge that will develop your skills, knowledge and gain experience of working in one of England’s leading NHS Trusts?

If so, we have opportunities for you to join our friendly, innovative and well respected team at University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL).

We are looking for registered pharmacists from all backgrounds (Hospital, PCN, GP, Community amongst others) to join our team in a variety of clinical areas.

This is a really exciting time to join University Hospitals of Leicester and the pharmacy department in particular. You can expect benefits including:

· Full training and support, including for those moving from other sectors, returning to practice and international candidates.

· Equivalent of 1 day per month protected development time (pro rata for part time staff).

· We look to offer our team members relevant training and development opportunities, such as Independent Prescribing and leaderships qualifications.

· Working with, and learning from, a diverse and forward thinking pharmacy team; we currently have 5 Consultant Pharmacist and 5 Advanced Pharmacist Practitioners, and are seeking to grow this further in the future.

· Flexible working options and a strong focus on work-life balance.

· Access to UHL staff benefit schemes including Vivup and Wagestream with a large range of offers and discounts of products and services, plus salary sacrifice schemes for cars and bikes.

Main duties of the job

Our Pharmacy Department is progressive, supportive and nurturing and aim to provide the best patient care possible. Join us and be a part of a workplace that looks to develop you as you progress on your professional and personal journey.

You will utilise your clinical skills and experience by providing clinical pharmacy services to wards and other areas, assisting with the training and development of others and supporting the improvement of the services. You will work closely with the multidisciplinary team and will help maintain the high standard of services that are already provided. Independent Prescribing is integral to our pharmacist’s roles.

In these posts you will have the opportunity to develop your clinical knowledge and specialist skills within the ESM Clinical Management Groups.

• This team is based at the LRI and LGH and provides care to many area's including:
• Acute Medicine, Neurology, Stroke, Geriatrics, Diabetes, Endocrinology, Infectious Diseases, Rheumatology, Dermatology and Medical Day case.
• Opportunity to work with many specialties to further develop and lead on local initiatives such as flow and improving discharge processes.

Post holder will be expected to contribute towards evening, on-call, bank holiday and weekend rotas.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To deliver a clinical service to patients, including taking patient drug histories, rationalising prescribing, advising on and compiling treatment protocols, therapeutic drug monitoring and monitoring compliance.

• To support the CMG Lead Pharmacist in maintaining and improving the pharmaceutical service to the clinical management group (CMG). · To be responsible for the delivery of an agreed standard of pharmaceutical care to identified patients in order to achieve the safe and cost effective use of medicine.

Please see the attached Job Description for more information on role requirements.

If you are considering applying for one of our roles we would encourage you to talk to us to discuss how we can support your development and how you can support our services. We would love to talk to you!