Job summary
We are recruiting a Palliative Care Clinical Pharmacist who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS who also provide Pharmacy services to Mountbatten Hospice. The single island-wide palliative care service is highly innovative, delivering complex pharmacotherapy to patients in the hospital, hospice and the wider community. Thus, this provides unique opportunities for a Pharmacist interested in symptom relief to work closely with medical and nursing colleagues to continue to lead innovative approaches to pharmacotherapy and service delivery.
Those with passion and enthusiasm, but insufficient experience for an 8a role, are still strongly encouraged to apply to discuss a progression plan, with the potential for a period of supervision and support from an experienced palliative care pharmacist.
For applicants seeking a full-time contract, there is the potential to combine this role openings in the hospital which would be shaped to match clinical experience as possible.
Relocation assistance is available up to £10,000 subject to approval and meeting the Trust's relocation policy criteria
Main duties of the job
Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.
For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.
We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.
We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.
Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.
About us
The Isle of Wight NHS Trust is the only integrated acute, community, mental health and ambulance health care provider in England. We serve a population of approximately 150,000 residents, making the services we offer variable and personalised with a flexible approach to our service users.
Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust's beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award-winning attractions.
Our 2020-2025 strategy sets out to ensure that we continue to be a provider of excellent and compassionate care. As part of this strategy, we are proactively taking steps to ensure that we recruit and retain the highest quality of talent to provide CARE and we would welcome applications from under-represented groups to ensure our Trust is an inclusive and diverse employer
Job description
Job responsibilities
Mountbatten Hospice comprises a 24/7 community service and virtual ward, a 16 bedded inpatient unit and an integrated hospital palliative care team jointly with the islands sole district general hospital: St Marys which includes a dedicated end of life care inpatient unit.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to manage our palliative care services at the Islands Hospice who have a strong culture of patient safety and service quality. Working with internal and external stakeholders whilst accountable to the Trust Chief Pharmacist.
Key responsibilities will be:
Leading, co-ordinating, delivering and developing clinical palliative care services to the Hospice.
Development of policies, procedures, guidelines, risk assessments and audits.
Promoting a culture of medicines safety to minimise harm, optimising learning from incidents and responding to safety alerts.
Supervising, training, and supporting the development of pharmacy staff and other health care professionals within the palliative care setting.
Essential criteria:
Master of Pharmacy or equivalent
Current Pharmacist registration with the GPhC
Post-graduate diploma or equivalent experience
Significant experience of working in a pharmaceutical environment
Significant clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience
Knowledge of national guidelines relating to medicines and pharmaceutical practice
Specialist knowledge and experience in either palliative care or a related clinical specialty
Desirable criteria for employment:
Independent prescribing qualification
Job description
Job responsibilities
Mountbatten Hospice comprises a 24/7 community service and virtual ward, a 16 bedded inpatient unit and an integrated hospital palliative care team jointly with the islands sole district general hospital: St Marys which includes a dedicated end of life care inpatient unit.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to manage our palliative care services at the Islands Hospice who have a strong culture of patient safety and service quality. Working with internal and external stakeholders whilst accountable to the Trust Chief Pharmacist.
Key responsibilities will be:
Leading, co-ordinating, delivering and developing clinical palliative care services to the Hospice.
Development of policies, procedures, guidelines, risk assessments and audits.
Promoting a culture of medicines safety to minimise harm, optimising learning from incidents and responding to safety alerts.
Supervising, training, and supporting the development of pharmacy staff and other health care professionals within the palliative care setting.
Essential criteria:
Master of Pharmacy or equivalent
Current Pharmacist registration with the GPhC
Post-graduate diploma or equivalent experience
Significant experience of working in a pharmaceutical environment
Significant clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience
Knowledge of national guidelines relating to medicines and pharmaceutical practice
Specialist knowledge and experience in either palliative care or a related clinical specialty
Desirable criteria for employment:
Independent prescribing qualification
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Pharmacy Degree.
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent training, experience.
- High level of clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience.
- Significant experience of working in hospital pharmacy.
- Specialist knowledge of legislation, professional ethics, national guidelines relating to medicines and pharmaceutical practice.
- Experience of managing a team.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Occasional lifting and carrying of small loads (e.g., boxes of fluids, pharmacy records).
- Standard keyboard skills.
- Appropriate handling of medicines, including cytotoxic/cytostatic medicines and denaturing controlled drugs.
Aptitudes
Essential
- Independent and lateral thinker, innovative, adaptable and self-motivated.
- Able to work under pressure and at a continuous level of high concentrations.
- Able to cope with emotional stress.
- Enthusiastic and willing to learn, open to change, use of new technology and extended roles.
- Professional attitude.
- Willing to participate in personal development and prepared to work outside normal working hours.
Abilities
Essential
- Able to lead and work as part of a team or independently.
- Able to work under own initiative, with a flexible approach to duties.
- Able to plan, prioritise and organise workload, work effectively under pressure and demonstrate excellent time management skills.
- Able to negotiate at a high level with other healthcare professionals, working effectively with senior clinical and management personnel, managing challenging clinical and strategic decisions.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills; written, verbal, formal and informal, with an ability to covey highly complex and sensitive information in a form readily understood by a variety of target audiences.
- Able to communicate, consult, negotiate, facilitate and influence effectively to deliver strategic agenda.
- Approachable and diplomatic.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Pharmacy Degree.
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent training, experience.
- High level of clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience.
- Significant experience of working in hospital pharmacy.
- Specialist knowledge of legislation, professional ethics, national guidelines relating to medicines and pharmaceutical practice.
- Experience of managing a team.
Physical Skills
Essential
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking.
- Occasional lifting and carrying of small loads (e.g., boxes of fluids, pharmacy records).
- Standard keyboard skills.
- Appropriate handling of medicines, including cytotoxic/cytostatic medicines and denaturing controlled drugs.
Aptitudes
Essential
- Independent and lateral thinker, innovative, adaptable and self-motivated.
- Able to work under pressure and at a continuous level of high concentrations.
- Able to cope with emotional stress.
- Enthusiastic and willing to learn, open to change, use of new technology and extended roles.
- Professional attitude.
- Willing to participate in personal development and prepared to work outside normal working hours.
Abilities
Essential
- Able to lead and work as part of a team or independently.
- Able to work under own initiative, with a flexible approach to duties.
- Able to plan, prioritise and organise workload, work effectively under pressure and demonstrate excellent time management skills.
- Able to negotiate at a high level with other healthcare professionals, working effectively with senior clinical and management personnel, managing challenging clinical and strategic decisions.
Communication Skills
Essential
- Highly developed interpersonal and communication skills; written, verbal, formal and informal, with an ability to covey highly complex and sensitive information in a form readily understood by a variety of target audiences.
- Able to communicate, consult, negotiate, facilitate and influence effectively to deliver strategic agenda.
- Approachable and diplomatic.
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).
