Job summary
If you are a self-motivated, positive individual and would like to play an integral part in growing the reputation of the pharmacy and contributing to service developments, we have the perfect opportunity for you.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and innovative individual to join our expanding pharmacy team. The team at Sheffield Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust comprises of approximately 500 pharmacy staff working across five sites and is one of the biggest pharmacy departments in the country.
Our inclusive and diverse pharmacy department has a strong clinical presence in all areas. We are innovative and forward-thinking and have invested in a host of technical improvements, including robotics and a state of the art, multi-million-pound technical services unit. We offer a wide range of roles across different areas of the service including clinical ward services, aseptic services, homecare, medicines supply, medicines information, medicines governance, education & training, clinical trials, and research.
NHS organisations recognise the benefits of having a diverse workforce. As a trust and department, we are working to promote and improve inclusion and representation from under-represented groups including global majority ethnicities, LGBTQ+ identities, and colleagues with disabilities. We wouldwelcome applicants who are members of these groups and other underrepresented groups to apply.
Main duties of the job
We are offering this exciting opportunity for a clinical pharmacist to join our successful surgery team working across the general surgery wards at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust . The team deliver a comprehensive service to four wards, including the lower gastrointestinal colorectal and the upper gastrointestinal hepato biliary wards.
We are looking for a dynamic individual with excellent interpersonal and communication skills who can further develop this established clinical role.
- To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate clinical pharmacy services for General Surgery in accordance with the objectives set by the Principal Pharmacist and General Surgery Directorate in order to ensure safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient use of drugs.
- Applicants should be an Independent Prescribers or be willing to commence an appropriate course within the first two years of taking up the post.
- To contribute to the pharmacy departmental services including evenings and weekends.
The post-holder will contribute to the departments weekend, bank holiday and evening (to 8pm) commitments
About us
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK's busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. It is an energetic and vibrant organisation that places patients and staff at the heart of everything they do. We provide a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Sheffield, as well as specialist care for patients from further afield, including cancer, spinal cord injuries, renal and cardiothoracic services.
As a teaching hospital, we have a great commitment to education, training, and development of staff, including undergraduates from many professions. You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it services. The NHS offers a wide range of benefits including pension contributions, market leading annual leave allowance and career, not to mention our Blue Light Card and NHS exclusive discounts.
The trust will give you time to use your skills and help you develop a fulfilling career as well as a commitment to support flexible working and can support such things as, part time hours, condensed hours, or job share. These options are not exhaustive, and we would encourage candidates to state any forms of flexible working they would like to explore in their application.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- MPharm
- Higher degree/ Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent postgraduate diploma in specialist area
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Registered Independent prescriber
Experience
Essential
- Extensive clinical experience post- qualification in secondary care. Including significant experience in a relevant clinical speciality.
- Experience of clinical audit
- Experience of service improvement projects
Desirable
- Experience of leadership, delivery and evaluation of pharmacy projects with multidisciplinary implications
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent clinical practice knowledge including a breadth of pharmacy practice and in-depth knowledge and skills in a relevant clinical speciality
- Have excellent communication skills; non-verbal, verbal and written in order to communicate with a broad spectrum of people (from senior directorate managers to members of the public).
- Ability to communicate empathetically with patients
- Demonstrate excellent leadership skills
- Able to work independently and have own accountability for professional actions.
- Able to articulate complex information and present clearly to healthcare staff and patients
- Able to evaluate best practice and apply research findings to practice, promoting evidence based practice within the Trust
- Able to use research findings to develop services and patient care, managing therapeutic problems and reducing risks (often in areas where information is limited or conflicting)
- Able to analyse highly complex data/information to solve clinical problems where information is lacking or conflicting
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and is able to manage difficult and ambiguous problems e.g. medication for individual patients
- Experience of busy and stressful working environments.
- Able to develop good working relationships across traditional boundaries, e.g. primary, secondary, tertiary care.
- Able to plan and organise own and others workload to achieve clinical objectives.
- Demonstrates ability to influence practice at a directorate level.
- Good IT skills.
- Able to identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services.
- Delegation skills.
- Able to sustain prolonged concentration.
- Able to evaluate service quality.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- MPharm
- Higher degree/ Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent postgraduate diploma in specialist area
- Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable
- Registered Independent prescriber
Experience
Essential
- Extensive clinical experience post- qualification in secondary care. Including significant experience in a relevant clinical speciality.
- Experience of clinical audit
- Experience of service improvement projects
Desirable
- Experience of leadership, delivery and evaluation of pharmacy projects with multidisciplinary implications
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Excellent clinical practice knowledge including a breadth of pharmacy practice and in-depth knowledge and skills in a relevant clinical speciality
- Have excellent communication skills; non-verbal, verbal and written in order to communicate with a broad spectrum of people (from senior directorate managers to members of the public).
- Ability to communicate empathetically with patients
- Demonstrate excellent leadership skills
- Able to work independently and have own accountability for professional actions.
- Able to articulate complex information and present clearly to healthcare staff and patients
- Able to evaluate best practice and apply research findings to practice, promoting evidence based practice within the Trust
- Able to use research findings to develop services and patient care, managing therapeutic problems and reducing risks (often in areas where information is limited or conflicting)
- Able to analyse highly complex data/information to solve clinical problems where information is lacking or conflicting
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and is able to manage difficult and ambiguous problems e.g. medication for individual patients
- Experience of busy and stressful working environments.
- Able to develop good working relationships across traditional boundaries, e.g. primary, secondary, tertiary care.
- Able to plan and organise own and others workload to achieve clinical objectives.
- Demonstrates ability to influence practice at a directorate level.
- Good IT skills.
- Able to identify and prioritise clinical pharmacy services.
- Delegation skills.
- Able to sustain prolonged concentration.
- Able to evaluate service quality.
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
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).
