Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Diabetes & Endocrinology

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

South Tees Foundation Trust Pharmacy Department is proud to advertise this new post of Advanced Clinical Pharmacist for Diabetes & Endocrinology. This new role is part of the progress and expansion of our advanced level of practice for pharmacists.

The post-holder will be required to innovatively develop the role, and work on their own initiative. They will work closely with the Diabetes & Endocrinology multi-disciplinary team (MDT) and the wider pharmacy team, ensuring that services are provided in accordance with relevant professional, ethical, legal and locally agreed policies, procedures, guidelines and standards. The post-holder will be required to develop excellent rapport with patients as well as the MDT. Exceptional communication skills are vital for this role.

The post-holder will be a key member of the clinical pharmacy team, making major contributions to the development and delivery of pharmacy medicines management strategies and the implementation of development plans for pharmacy services

Please note that this vacancy will close when we receive sufficient completed applications.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will deliver safe, effective, and optimum clinical pharmacy services to Diabetes & Endocrinology patients at South Tees Hospitals, in addition to providing expert advice, guidance and information on treatment choices, medicines use, clinical pharmacy and financial issues to senior staff and mangers within the services.

The post will involve development of clinical pharmacy services in Diabetes & Endocrinology to ensure medicines optimisation. The postholder will actively consult patients, and make clinical interventions to improve patient care and patient safety. The post holder will also continuously complete service evaluation and monitoring of KPIs to continuously make improvements to the service.

About us

Leadership and Improvement Training

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff to the Trust; this training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the leadership development programme, and the Quality Improvement Programme that the Trust delivers. This programme aims to

Explore leadership within the NHS

Promote Trust Values and Behaviours

Develop your Leadership effectiveness and skills

Practitioner level in quality improvement, equipping you with the skills to champion, lead and complete quality improvement within your role

After you complete this four and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities, we offer further in-house courses dependent upon your role and bitesize programmes and leadership apprenticeships at level 3,5 and 7.

Date posted

06 December 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year Per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

328-CD-5850855-LJ

Job locations

The James Cook University Hospital

Marton Road

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Experiance

Essential

Wealth of experience in clinical pharmacy within a hospital setting

Desirable

Experience in mentorship and training for other staff

Qualifications

Essential

Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Pharmacist independent prescribing accreditation or actively working towards qualification

Knowledge

Essential

Ability to apply theoretical knowledge to ward/clinic based situations
Strong knowledge of medicines information resources

Personal Attributes

Essential

Computer literate with ability to use Microsoft Office programs

Person Specification

Experiance

Essential

Wealth of experience in clinical pharmacy within a hospital setting

Desirable

Experience in mentorship and training for other staff

Qualifications

Essential

Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Pharmacist independent prescribing accreditation or actively working towards qualification

Knowledge

Essential

Ability to apply theoretical knowledge to ward/clinic based situations
Strong knowledge of medicines information resources

Personal Attributes

Essential

Computer literate with ability to use Microsoft Office programs

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).