Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Acute Medicine

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Job summary

We are delighted to advertise for a passionate and enthusiastic pharmacist to join our pharmacy medicine team at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. This post for Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Acute Medicine will work closely with other senior pharmacists within the medicine team to provide outstanding leadership and service development across the medical wards and departments. There is also scope within the role to expand services to the Emergency Department and Same Day Emergency Care areas. The role will encompass input into delivery of effective clinical and operational pharmacy services, implementation of service improvements and ensuring patient safety within the designated divisions.

Applying candidates should be strong leaders with a passion for clinical pharmacy services, and have experience working within medicine areas. They will also be expected to develop strong professional relationships with a wide variety of colleagues and stakeholders. We are searching for an enthusiastic pharmacist who is forward thinking and keen to take on new challenges.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidates will work full time hours 8.30am-5pm Monday - Friday. They will also be included in dispensary and extended/out-of-hours rotas, which are currently:

2 hours per week rota'd time in dispensary
1 day weekend working once every 5 weeks (reimbursed with a weekday off the following week)
1 'late night' shift every 2 weeks (working hours 9am-5.30pm)
On call duties on a rolling rota basis, approximately 1 in 60

Note condensed and flexible working is available as per trust policy.The pharmacy department at South Tees hosts over 220 members of staff and provides a stimulating, friendly, and professionally rewarding environment for staff to develop their clinical expertise and professionalism.

About us

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

20 March 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£50,952 to £57,349 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours

Reference number

328-CD-6117505-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

Experience

Essential

Wealth of experience in clinical pharmacy within a hospital setting
Experience of providing directorate level pharmacist services e.g. budgetary reports, drug usage reviews
Developments of protocols and policies
Experience of developing strong professional relationships with other healthcare professionals

Desirable

Staff leadership and management experience

Qualifications

Essential

Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent relevant postgraduate clinical qualification

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

Wealth of experience in clinical pharmacy within a hospital setting
Experience of providing directorate level pharmacist services e.g. budgetary reports, drug usage reviews
Developments of protocols and policies
Experience of developing strong professional relationships with other healthcare professionals

Desirable

Staff leadership and management experience

Qualifications

Essential

Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent relevant postgraduate clinical qualification

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).