Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a proactive and dynamic individual with an appropriate level of knowledge and skill to join the Pharmacy team as the Paediatrics and Women's pharmacist at UHB Trust.
We have an opportunity for different working patterns based on your needs as either TWO half-time posts (working 2.5 days a week) as a job-share or one full-time post.
UHB is one of the largest Trusts in England and has a large Paediatric department on the Heartlands site treating inpatients and outpatients. In this role you will support the provision of the clinical pharmacy service to the children's and neonatal wards. You will also assist the specialty lead pharmacist providing support to women's maternity services.
We are a centre of excellence for paediatric neuromuscular services, specialise in paediatric endocrinology and dermatology, and provide paediatric immunology and HIV services for the West Midlands. Our level 3 neonatal unit cares for premature babies as young as 22 weeks and amongst other services provide the Hypothermic Cooling Centre for the region.
Pharmacy is a valued member of the Paediatrics and Neonatal teams, and we regularly participate in MDT meetings including ward rounds, neonatal nutrition, safeguarding and discharge planning.
As we move forward to introduce our electronic prescribing and medicine administration system to our paediatric areas, this is an exciting time to join our team and gain excellent clinical and service development experience.
Main duties of the job
*Support and deliver the day-to-day clinical pharmacy service to the clinical speciality service through a team approach and at a high standard
* You will be introduced to core directorate activities - reporting and analysis of medicines expenditure, clinical governance and risk management activities, including review of PGDs and relevant policies. You will have the opportunity to train clinically to provide a neonatal intensive care service and neonatal parenteral nutrition.
*Ensures pharmacy and medicines management are taken account of in day-to-day operation of the service.
*Supports the specialist pharmacist in the developments to the pharmacy service to the specialty.
*Uses clinical knowledge to interpret blood test results in a clinically meaningful manner and make relevant interventions
*Communicates effectively with patients and the MDT, understands how to handle and resolve conflict
*Take on enhanced roles relating to education and training, such as developing training programmes and involvement with training of new doctors. You will have responsibility for the supervision of less experienced members of the team including junior pharmacists and trainee pharmacists.
*To take full part in clinical rota and late night/ weekend duties.
*You will join a team of clinical pharmacists who provide the on-call service with a back-up provided by the Specialist and Advanced Clinical Pharmacists.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
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*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
- *Has completed or is near completion (within the next 6 months) a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification.
- *To be willing to work towards a non-medical prescribing qualification
- *Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Desirable
- *Has commenced a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification (applicable for Annex 21 roles)
Experience
Essential
- *Post-registration work experience as a pharmacist in hospital pharmacy, covering a range of specialties, or the ability to demonstrate the equivalent level of knowledge
- *Previous participation in multi- disciplinary team
- *Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for providing high quality pharmaceutical care
- *Experience of teaching/presenting to other healthcare professionals/patients
- *Commitment to own Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- *Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in hospital pharmacy
- *Knowledge of national initiatives and guidelines, e.g. NICE, NSF
- *Possesses knowledge of available resources to answer Medicines Information queries
- *Able to work with drug budget information
- *Demonstrates good knowledge of hospital clinical pharmacy and current issues
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Team worker
- *Good interpersonal skills
- *Good oral, written communication & presentation skills
- *Good computer skills
- *Demonstrates problem solving skills
- *Demonstrates empathy towards patients and carers
- *Able to work under pressure, prioritise work and meet deadlines
- *Ability to manage budgets and deliver on cost improvement programmes
- *Able to use initiative and work without supervision when necessary
- *Demonstrates teaching/mentoring skills & ability to motivate other staff
- *Able to interact with clinical and managerial staff
- *Demonstrates good critical appraisal skills
- *Professional manner
- *Well motivated and reliable
- *Able to work with all grades of staff
- *Capacity to work calmly under pressure
- *Ability to travel across all Trust sites as required by job role
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
- *Has completed or is near completion (within the next 6 months) a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification.
- *To be willing to work towards a non-medical prescribing qualification
- *Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Desirable
- *Has commenced a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification (applicable for Annex 21 roles)
Experience
Essential
- *Post-registration work experience as a pharmacist in hospital pharmacy, covering a range of specialties, or the ability to demonstrate the equivalent level of knowledge
- *Previous participation in multi- disciplinary team
- *Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for providing high quality pharmaceutical care
- *Experience of teaching/presenting to other healthcare professionals/patients
- *Commitment to own Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- *Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in hospital pharmacy
- *Knowledge of national initiatives and guidelines, e.g. NICE, NSF
- *Possesses knowledge of available resources to answer Medicines Information queries
- *Able to work with drug budget information
- *Demonstrates good knowledge of hospital clinical pharmacy and current issues
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Team worker
- *Good interpersonal skills
- *Good oral, written communication & presentation skills
- *Good computer skills
- *Demonstrates problem solving skills
- *Demonstrates empathy towards patients and carers
- *Able to work under pressure, prioritise work and meet deadlines
- *Ability to manage budgets and deliver on cost improvement programmes
- *Able to use initiative and work without supervision when necessary
- *Demonstrates teaching/mentoring skills & ability to motivate other staff
- *Able to interact with clinical and managerial staff
- *Demonstrates good critical appraisal skills
- *Professional manner
- *Well motivated and reliable
- *Able to work with all grades of staff
- *Capacity to work calmly under pressure
- *Ability to travel across all Trust sites as required by job role
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).
