Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge in a specialist area? Are you passionate about supporting patients with life-limiting illness? A rare opportunity has arisen to work with the NHFT Specialist Palliative Care Team to support such patients.
The NHFT Specialist Palliative Care Team provides specialist support and advice to patients who are considered to be within the last 12 months of life. We currently have two inpatient hospices and a wellbeing centre as well as a team of communist based clinicians that provide specialist palliative care.
Our Intermediate Care Team (ICT) works in the community setting and provides rapid assessment, treatment and support to patients who have had a recent decline in their health. This is achieved by supporting people in their own homes or helping them leave hospital. The team also delivers intravenous therapy to patients within their homes.
Your role as advanced pharmacist will be to provide a clinical pharmacy service to the hospices as well as supporting the wider team with training, medicines information and guideline development. Within the intermediate care team your role will be to provide support and advice on medicines administration to the nursing team and support the practice educators with medicines management training for the wider team and support for the broader medicines management agenda.
Main duties of the job
As the lead pharmacist for Specialist Palliative Care and ICT you will act as clinical lead within pharmacy for Specialist Palliative Medicine. You will be responsible for provision of pharmacy support to all areas of palliative care within NHFT. You will also deliver appropriate, targeted pharmaceutical support to the ICT.
The successful candidate will develop and deliver clinical services to specialist palliative care. They will provide an advisory service and training to support the ICT and develop links with PCN pharmacists as well as undertaking medicines reviews as needed to rationalise complex regimes.
About us
NHFT is an integrated primary care and mental health Trust, providing physical, mental health and specialty services in both hospital settings and out in the community. Because we put the person at the centre of all we do, we focus on delivering care that is as easy to access as possible. This means many of our services can be provided at home, work or in schools.We also provide health services to various prisons and detention centres in Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For further information on the advertised role, please refer to the job description located under the Supporting Documents heading. The full person specification can be accessed under the About You Section of the document.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with GPhC as a Pharmacist
- MPharm degree, or equivalent pharmacy qualification
- Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy (or equivalent level of knowledge and experience)
Desirable
- Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience within the NHS setting
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of planning, implementing, analysing, reporting and changing practice through audit
Desirable
- Experience of prescribing within a specialty to optimise medicines for specific patient groups
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with GPhC as a Pharmacist
- MPharm degree, or equivalent pharmacy qualification
- Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy (or equivalent level of knowledge and experience)
Desirable
- Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Experience
Essential
- Post registration experience within the NHS setting
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of planning, implementing, analysing, reporting and changing practice through audit
Desirable
- Experience of prescribing within a specialty to optimise medicines for specific patient groups
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).
