Job summary
Do you have the vision, drive and enthusiasm to help us deliver an exciting modern pharmacy service?
We are seeking talented and motivated pharmacist to join the Queen Elizabeth site within our Cardiology team to help deliver a clinically focused and innovative pharmacy service. If you are a hospital pharmacist and you want to utilise your clinical skills and work in a forward-thinking department, then this is the job for you! UHB Pharmacy is a great place to work where everyone can thrive and grow.
Some of the benefits of joining our team:
Dedicated protected learning during work hours to help facilitate your development.
Work with a fantastic team offering specialist regional care for cardiology patients.
Access to trust health & wellbeing initiatives and a variety of staff networks.
Access to exclusive benefits for you & your family including NHS discounts at various retailers, restaurants and leisure facilities.
Main duties of the job
To provide highly specialist clinical pharmacist input to the Cardiology specialty.
To ensure correct and safe prescribing, demonstrate expert clinical knowledge and provide a clinical pharmacy service of the highest standard.
To provide advice and information on issues surrounding adherence to medications prescribed in the treatment of patients.
To develop protocols and guidelines to support the medicines optimisation process where appropriate
You need to be motivated with good communication skills and a desire to use your knowledge, skills and experience to improve patient care and influence healthcare professionals in the best use of medicines.
You will be encouraged to undertake your NMP or if already achieved in another area develop your knowledge into this field.
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
- *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.
- *Previous participation in multi-disciplinary team
- *Experience in supervising and managing pharmacists & pharmacy technicians and performing appraisals.
- *Experience of audit work
- *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
- *Experience of supervision, developing and appraising staff as well as giving feedback
Desirable
- *Experience of tutoring pharmacists studying for postgraduate qualification
- *Previous experience of teaching other healthcare professionals
- *Experience of short listing and interviewing
- *Experience of managing drug expenditure for a specialty and understanding of budgetary mechanism
- *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 as a trainer
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
- *Time management skills
- *Organisational skills
- *Negotiating skills
- *Co-ordination of duties of staff
- *Can prioritise local and own workload and that of others
- *Can meet deadlines
- *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
- *Numerate and literate
- *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
- *Professional manner
- *Well motivated and reliable
- *Able to work with all grades of staff
- *Capacity to work calmly under pressure
- *Ability to deal with frequent interruptions.
- *Proven ability to work to deadlines and time management without supervision.
- *Willingness to travel across all sites as required by the job role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *MPharm degree or equivalent
- *Clinical diploma (or equivalent) or higher Pharmacy degree
- *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.
- *Previous participation in multi-disciplinary team
- *Experience in supervising and managing pharmacists & pharmacy technicians and performing appraisals.
- *Experience of audit work
- *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
- *Experience of supervision, developing and appraising staff as well as giving feedback
Desirable
- *Experience of tutoring pharmacists studying for postgraduate qualification
- *Previous experience of teaching other healthcare professionals
- *Experience of short listing and interviewing
- *Experience of managing drug expenditure for a specialty and understanding of budgetary mechanism
- *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 as a trainer
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
- *Time management skills
- *Organisational skills
- *Negotiating skills
- *Co-ordination of duties of staff
- *Can prioritise local and own workload and that of others
- *Can meet deadlines
- *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
- *Numerate and literate
- *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
- *Professional manner
- *Well motivated and reliable
- *Able to work with all grades of staff
- *Capacity to work calmly under pressure
- *Ability to deal with frequent interruptions.
- *Proven ability to work to deadlines and time management without supervision.
- *Willingness to travel across all sites as required by the job role.
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).
