Job summary
Employer heading
Bank Specialist Clinical Pharmacist
NHS AfC: Band 7
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Job overview
The Medicines Management Directorate has an exciting opportunity for registered Pharmacist to join the bank register as part of the Pharmacy team at Cwm Taf MorgannwgUniversity Health Board.
In this stimulating role you will build on your previous experience, developing greater autonomy and responsibility whilst providing a clinical pharmacy service to a range of specialities such as cardiology, respiratory, surgery, paediatrics and mental health.
You will work closely with, and be supported by the Clinical Lead Pharmacists to continue your development in pharmacy practice. The successful candidate will possess excellent communication skills and be able to work well as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
English and/or Welsh speakers are both equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with our teams of highly experienced pharmacists and technicians you will participate in the clinical service, building on your clinical experience, developing greater autonomy and responsibility whilst providing a clinical pharmacy service to a range of specialties.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents.
Person specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Vocational Master’s Degree in Pharmacy. • Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council. • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS). • Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical or Hospital Pharmacy, or equivalent clinical experience. • Good knowledge of medicines management. • Evidence of continuing professional development.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Significant post registration pharmacy experience. • Experience of working effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.
Aptitude and Abilities Skills
Essential criteria
- • Effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills. • Effective organisational and prioritising skills. • Ability to present information to individuals and groups. • Skilled negotiator and facilitator. • Ability to manage conflict and deal with difficult situations. • Able to evaluate information and make decisions involving highly complex facts. • Computer keyboard skills and software packages, including report writing skills.
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- • Able to work independently. • Able to work as part of a team. • Enthusiastic and motivated. • Flexible approach to work and adaptable to changing demands and situations. • Conscientious. • Responsible for own actions. • Reliable. • Approachable. • Positive attitude to improvement and development (self and service). • Empathic, diplomatic, and professional response to emotional/confrontational situations.
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.
Welsh language skills are not necessary
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gabriella Booth
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Pharmacy
- Email address
- [email protected]
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