Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 208-F80B53-24-15
- Employer
- Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Diana Princess of Wales Hospital
- Town
- Grimsby
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Family Services (Womens and Children)
Band 8a
Job overview
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist (Family Services - Womens and Childrens) - are you an experienced pharmacist seeking a new challenge who enjoys making a positive contribution to patient care?
Vacancies have arisen for positions of Advanced Clinical Pharmacist with specialist interest in Family Services. Post will have a Trust wide remit, with a base at Diana Princess of Wales Hospital in Grimsby. The successful candidate will lead and deliver Clinical Pharmacy services to named specialist clinical area. Provide expert pharmaceutical advice to patients and other members of the multidisciplinary team. Leads and develops relevant clinical / pharmaceutical audit and research. We provide a Medicines Reconciliation Service to all beds in the hospital which in turn supports the one-stop dispensing service and utilisation of patients own medicines.
The successful candidate will be required to work flexibly in supporting the Trust’s directive of 7 day working, participating in rotas and/or shift working as necessary including weekend and bank holiday working. Incentives for the right candidate may be available under the Trust Recruitment & Retention Incentive Policy.
Main duties of the job
The postholder would be responsible for providing an advanced clinical pharmacist service within the Family Services Directorate. This role requires excellent organisational and interpersonal skills alongside sound clinical knowledge and relevant experience. We are a successful, innovative and forward-thinking department with patient care at the centre of decision making. We actively use skill mix and role development to enhance job content and quality at all levels of the department. The department is supported by a robust management team, Pharmacy Technician and Pharmacy Support Worker structure that enables our Advanced Clinical Pharmacists to be actively involved in and focus on clinical and professional aspects of patient care. You will be responsible for managing and supervising the duties of Pharmacists, Pre-registration Pharmacists and ward support technicians within the clinical team. You will be responsible for supporting the medicines information services and training pharmacy staff to deliver these services. You will support the Clinical Pharmacy Team Manager in the delivery of the Pharmacy Vision and Values Strategy together with the other Clinical Pharmacy Team Leaders. The Trust has acknowledged the high quality of the services delivered by our clinical teams but we recognise the need for further integration of our pharmacists into clinical specialties to deliver a more strategic perspective of medicines optimisation and improve patient care.
Interview Date TBC
Working for our organisation
We’re a large organisation with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.
We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt ‘best practice’ so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- A vocational Master’s degree in Pharmacy plus pre-registration training resulting in registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacist
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy qualification or proven level of equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Accredited pre-registration pharmacy student tutor and / or accredited clinical pharmacy diploma tutor
- Independent Prescribing qualification
- MFRPSI
Occuaptional Exp & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Previous hospital Pharmacy experience as a Clinical Pharmacist (minimum of four years post qualification including a minimum of 12 months post qualification experience in relevant specialist area)
- Previous experience of supervising / mentoring junior colleagues
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience of recruiting / day to day sickness / absence issues
- Experience of risk management
- Experience of health and safety issues
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
- Dan Onyeagor
- Job title
- Pharmacist Clinical Team Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03033304851
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