Job summary
- Main area
- Division B-Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent: Requirement to work 1 in 6 weekends (Sat and Sun) and to participate in the departmental late duty rota
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 180-B-244328
- Employer
- Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Addenbrookes Hospital-Division B
- Town
- Cambridge
- Salary
- £74,290 - £85,601 p.a. pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/12/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 16/12/2024
Employer heading
Deputy Clinical Pharmacy Services Manager
Band 8c
Job overview
Due to promotion of the existing post holder, CUH Pharmacy are excited to advertise this senior role within the Clinical Pharmacy team.
You will have the opportunity to develop your leadership and managerial skillset, as well as to maintain a clinical commitment to a relevant specialty.
Our ideal candidate would have an extensive background within clinical pharmacy, a passion for service improvement, be able to build excellent working relationships and have a track record of delivering on projects at divisional and organisational level.
If successful you would have the opportunity to work alongside system leaders and MDT colleagues to improve the management of patients receiving care at CUH.
If this sounds like the opportunity you have been waiting for please don’t hesitate to get in touch to discuss the role further.
Main duties of the job
Deputise for the Associate Chief Pharmacist – Clinical Pharmacy Services (ACP-CS)
Plan, lead and evaluate inpatient focussed clinical pharmacy services in conjunction with the Lead/Consultant Pharmacists.
Support the ACP-CS with business planning and service development, including maintaining an effective recruitment strategy.
Support the ACP-CS to implement key innovations and service developments relating to clinical pharmacy practice e.g. incorporation of pharmacogenomics into clinical pharmacy practice, pharmacist prescribing at the point of registration, Pharmacy Technician clinical screening, job planning, digital innovation.
Support the ACP-CS and the Consultant Pharmacist Medication Safety to ensure governance and safety of the clinical pharmacy service and medicines use in general.
Working for our organisation
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have:
- applied for a Graduate visa
- or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment
- or the Trust has agreed that they will Sponsor you as a Skilled Worker and you will complete your studies within 3 months of the anticipated start date of employment
This vacancy will close at midnight on 8th December 2024
Interviews are due to be held on 16th December 2024
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters level degree in pharmacy
- Post-graduate preregistration year
- Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy*
- Qualified as independent prescriber
Desirable criteria
- MSc in Clinical Pharmacy*
- Risk management training
- Management or leadership training /qualification
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post-registration hospital pharmacy experience.
- Very experienced clinical pharmacist dealing with medicines queries from all grades of staff, professionals and patients.
- Experience of direct supervision of senior and junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
- Experienced clinical pharmacist with experience as a lead pharmacist for a relevant clinical specialty at band 8b who has also covered a large range of specialties.
- Experienced in documentation in medical notes
- Experience of consultant ward round/clinic or MDT participation attendance
- Experience of leadership and human resources management of a clinical pharmacy team
- Experience of service development including monitoring of outputs
- Experience of staff development
- Experience of managing performance
- Experience of recruitment and selection processes
- Experience of writing reports and contributing to business cases
- Writing clinical management plans
- Writing drug policies and guidelines and PGD development.
- Evidence of having conducted clinical audit, service evaluation or research project
- Experience of managing drug recalls and drug shortages
Desirable criteria
- Recent post-registration hospital experience, ideally including previous experience in a teaching hospital and experience of more than one hospital.
- Evidence of having written pharmaceutical and/or educational publications.
- Experience as a personal tutor/manager to a range of staff groups.
- Drug expenditure analysis and reporting.
- Horizon scanning
- Ability to take initiative and lead on projects including change management
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Highly specialised clinical knowledge of drugs and therapeutic trends within relevant specialist area(s).
- Awareness of, NICE and other national guidance related to medicines and care of patients in specialist area.
- Previous involvement in implementation of the relevant guidance.
- Good knowledge of Health care systems and NHS changes.
- Good knowledge and experience of literature review critical appraisal audit and research methodology.
- Computer knowledge with good experience of Word, Powerpoint and Excel
- Familiar with the use of a range of visual aids for teaching
- Pharmacy computer systems training.
- Independent prescriber
- Training and education knowledge and skills.
Desirable criteria
- Applications for Research grant
- GCP
- Experience of electronic hospital systems.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Good organisation skills/time management.
- Excellent prioritisation skills.
- Self Motivated.
- Good interpersonal skills.
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- Able to give oral presentations appropriate to the level of the audience or students.
- Able to produce written reports including for senior Trust management.
- Able to produce written support materials for training.
- Good consultation skills.
- Proven ability to influence and negotiate all grades of staff
- Proven ability to teach and train a range of staff groups.
- Excellent IT skills.
- Ability to develop staff within team to realise full potential.
Desirable criteria
- Ability to remain calm and work effectively under pressure and to deadlines.
- To be able to respond to changing priorities from the Trust leadership as required
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Berry
- Job title
- Associate Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Pharmacy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01223 254246
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