Job summary
Never has there been such an exciting time to specialise in education, development and training within the pharmacy profession. This role, supporting an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist -- Professional Development, Education and Training, will facilitate and develop pre and post registration pharmacy education and development.
We are seeking a pharmacist who wishes to expand their role into pharmacy education and professional development. The Pharmacy Department at UHB is progressive with a focus on supporting the development of our people. This includes the provision of undergraduate education and the expansion of our cross-sector trainee pharmacist and pre-registration pharmacy technician training programmes. Our early career pharmacists are supported to undertake the clinical diploma or RPS foundation pharmacist curriculum and prescribing. Colleagues are encouraged to undertake additional development including research internships and leadership programmes. Preparing our people for career progression is a high priority and we are continuing to create several progressional career pathways.
The additional benefits of joining our team include:
Excellent learning and development opportunities.
Ability to work flexibly to deliver the job role.
The opportunity to retain a patient facing clinical role.
Access to Trust health and wellbeing initiatives and a variety of staff networks
Main duties of the job
This role will develop, deliver & evaluate education, development and training for pre- and post-qualification pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. The role will suit a pharmacist with a track record of delivering a clinical role with an interest in professional development to advance the pharmacy profession. Someone who is a good collaborator and negotiator, keen to adopt novel approaches and be involved beyond the organisation in local and national initiatives.
The Specialist Pharmacist -Education, Development and Training will support and deliver pre-registration and post-registration training. This includes:
* Support for undergraduate pharmacy education delivery and placements.
* Deputise for the trainee pharmacist Educational Programme Director and act as a Designated Supervisor.
* Support the monitoring of peer support through clinical supervision.
* Support professional development for early/mid-career team members along with advanced/consultant practice.
* Roll out talent management as part of team member development and workforce planning.
* Lead, with two Specialist Pharmacy Technicians in Education, Development and Training, the development of the pharmacy technician team from apprenticeship through to higher level practice.
* Provide education and training to other professional groups within UHB.
* To undertake research around education and development within the pharmacy healthcare workforce.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- * MPharm degree or equivalent.
- * Clinical diploma (or equivalent) or higher Pharmacy degree.
- * HEE Educational Supervisor programme completion (or working towards).
- * Qualified as an independent non-medical prescribed or a willingness to undertake the programme.
- * GPhC registration.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- * Substantial experience as a band 7 pharmacist (or above) within hospital pharmacy.
- * Experience in a range of clinical specialties.
- * Experience of tutoring pharmacists studying for postgraduate qualification.
- * Experience in supervising and managing pharmacists & pharmacy technicians and performing appraisals.
- * Previous experience of teaching, training and staff development of pharmacy staff.
- * Previous experience of design of training programmes for pharmacy staff.
- * Experience of audit work.
- * Experience as a trainer.
- * Experience of supervision, developing and appraising staff as well as giving feedback.
- * Excellent knowledge of general clinical pharmacy and drug use.
- * Networking: being able to work within and without the Trust with credibility.
- * Knowledge of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to education & training.
- In-depth knowledge of Continuing Professional Development process and of Plan & Record system.
Desirable
- * Previous experience of teaching other healthcare professionals.
- * Experience of short listing and interviewing.
- * Experience in service development.
- * Experience of working at a strategic level with senior clinicians and managers and experience of working in an integrated directorate.
- * Experience of managing drug expenditure for a specialty and understanding of budgetary mechanism
Additional Criteria
Essential
- * Good communication skills, written and verbal, with ability to demonstrate fluency, clarity and effectiveness at all levels.
- * Good teaching and presentation skills (variety of methods, individual and small & large groups).
- * IT and presentation skills and report writing.
- * Organisational skills.
- * Negotiating skills.
- * Co-ordination of duties of staff.
- * Can prioritise local and own workload and that of others.
- * Can remain composed and effective in demanding situations (students in difficulties, delivering unfavourable feedback, as advocate for students in negotiating with senior staff, staff and patients in department, on wards and on-call)
- * Can reflect and critically analyse own performance.
- * Can critically and objectively analyse performance of others.
- * Able to identify, prioritise and solve problems.
- * Identifies and manages risk.
- * Able to work effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
- * Committed to developing and extending pharmacy services.
- * Able to critically evaluate evidence.
- * Able to implement change.
- * Capacity to work calmly under pressure.
- * Ability to deal with frequent interruptions.
- * Proven ability to work to deadlines and time management without supervision.
- * Well motivated and reliable.
- * Demonstrable commitment to own Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as well as a commitment to development and training of other staff.
- * Flexible approach to working to achieve results.
- * Willingness to travel across all sites as required by the job role.
- * Participation in 7 day week rota including bank holidays, weekend and second on-call rota.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- * MPharm degree or equivalent.
- * Clinical diploma (or equivalent) or higher Pharmacy degree.
- * HEE Educational Supervisor programme completion (or working towards).
- * Qualified as an independent non-medical prescribed or a willingness to undertake the programme.
- * GPhC registration.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- * Substantial experience as a band 7 pharmacist (or above) within hospital pharmacy.
- * Experience in a range of clinical specialties.
- * Experience of tutoring pharmacists studying for postgraduate qualification.
- * Experience in supervising and managing pharmacists & pharmacy technicians and performing appraisals.
- * Previous experience of teaching, training and staff development of pharmacy staff.
- * Previous experience of design of training programmes for pharmacy staff.
- * Experience of audit work.
- * Experience as a trainer.
- * Experience of supervision, developing and appraising staff as well as giving feedback.
- * Excellent knowledge of general clinical pharmacy and drug use.
- * Networking: being able to work within and without the Trust with credibility.
- * Knowledge of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to education & training.
- In-depth knowledge of Continuing Professional Development process and of Plan & Record system.
Desirable
- * Previous experience of teaching other healthcare professionals.
- * Experience of short listing and interviewing.
- * Experience in service development.
- * Experience of working at a strategic level with senior clinicians and managers and experience of working in an integrated directorate.
- * Experience of managing drug expenditure for a specialty and understanding of budgetary mechanism
Additional Criteria
Essential
- * Good communication skills, written and verbal, with ability to demonstrate fluency, clarity and effectiveness at all levels.
- * Good teaching and presentation skills (variety of methods, individual and small & large groups).
- * IT and presentation skills and report writing.
- * Organisational skills.
- * Negotiating skills.
- * Co-ordination of duties of staff.
- * Can prioritise local and own workload and that of others.
- * Can remain composed and effective in demanding situations (students in difficulties, delivering unfavourable feedback, as advocate for students in negotiating with senior staff, staff and patients in department, on wards and on-call)
- * Can reflect and critically analyse own performance.
- * Can critically and objectively analyse performance of others.
- * Able to identify, prioritise and solve problems.
- * Identifies and manages risk.
- * Able to work effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
- * Committed to developing and extending pharmacy services.
- * Able to critically evaluate evidence.
- * Able to implement change.
- * Capacity to work calmly under pressure.
- * Ability to deal with frequent interruptions.
- * Proven ability to work to deadlines and time management without supervision.
- * Well motivated and reliable.
- * Demonstrable commitment to own Continuing Professional Development (CPD) as well as a commitment to development and training of other staff.
- * Flexible approach to working to achieve results.
- * Willingness to travel across all sites as required by the job role.
- * Participation in 7 day week rota including bank holidays, weekend and second on-call rota.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
