Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Neurology

Job summary

We are looking for a highly motivated clinical pharmacist to join the team providing pharmacy services to the Neurosciences directorate. Joining an established team, you will play a key part in providing a first class, patient focussed service to Neurology patients across Cardiff and Vale University Health Board (CAVUHB). Your knowledge, skills, and experience will further enhance the excellent service we provide.

Based at the University Hospital of Wales, you will play a key role within the Epilepsy and Headache multi-disciplinary teams (MDTs), providing specialist advice, running pharmacist-led clinics and managing complex drug regimes.

We will support your advanced practice and leadership development by providing access to recognised training and other structured opportunities to challenge and enable you to enhance your clinical role.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

This is a new post which has been developed with the Neurosciences directorate to ensure that we can deliver safe and effective medicines to Neurology patients within CAVUHB.

Working closely with the MDTs, you will develop your role as a specialist prescribing pharmacist, running clinics to manage complex drug regimes, and ensuring compliance with the MHRA regulations relating to Valproate medications. You will be responsible for ensuring patients can access medicines in a safe and timely manner. There have been many advances in treatments within neurology in recent years, and you will be at the forefront of future developments to benefit the patients of CAVUHB.

You will be a member of the Neurosciences pharmacy team, which has a proven track record for developing pharmacist roles to improve access to new medicines. You will working alongside the Lead Pharmacist for Neurosciences, who provides specialist pharmacist input to the Neuroinflammatory MDT and runs pharmacist-led Multiple Sclerosis clinics. The team is also responsible for providing clinical pharmacy services to the neurology and neurosurgical wards at UHW.

As part of the SSCB pharmacy team, you will lead by example and be responsible for training and development of less experienced team members. Your professionalism, excellent inter-personal skills and enthusiasm, will equip you to be a valued contributor to our service and to develop to be a key member of our clinical pharmacy team.

About us

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services.

Our mission is "Caring for People, Keeping People Well", and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population's health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.

Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.