Job summary
This is a new and exciting role, working with an established electronic patient record (EPR) and will traverse the boundary between digital and clinical healthcare. You will be working with oncology and haematology specialists and the in-house EPR development team, under the management of the lead electronic prescribing pharmacist to improve electronic prescribing of chemotherapy drugs and protocols
Main duties of the job
Develop and maintain chemotherapy prescribing protocols
Provide a clinical service to inpatients and/or outpatients for a proportion of the week
Develop and maintain systemic anti-cancer therapies within the electronic drug dictionary
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
Job responsibilities
*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
- *4 year vocational Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
- *Post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience
- *Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- *Willingness to work towards non-medical prescribing qualification
- *1 year pre-registration training plus specialist knowledge acquired through diploma level
Desirable
- *Working towards Level I Faculty Membership with the RPS
- *Non-medical prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- *Maintain registration as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- *Significant post-registration hospital pharmacy experience in oncology
- *Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in oncology
- *Demonstrates good knowledge of oncology and current issues
- *Previous participation in multi-disciplinary team
- *Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for providing high quality pharmaceutical care
- *Demonstrates good critical appraisal skills
- *Knowledge of national initiatives and guidelines, e.g. NICE, NSF
- *Possesses knowledge of available resources to answer Medicines Information queries
Desirable
- *Experience of teaching/presenting to other healthcare professionals/patients
- *Ability to manage budgets and deliver on cost improvement programmes
- *Previous involvement in clinical trials
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Able to use initiative and work without supervision when necessary
- *Good communication skills, written and verbal, with ability to demonstrate fluency, clarity and effectiveness at all levels.
- *IT and presentation skills and report writing
- *Time management skills
- *Organisational skills
- *Negotiating skills
- *Co-ordination of duties of staff
- *Can prioritise local and own workload and that of others
- *Can meet deadlines
- *Can remain composed and effective in demanding situations (students in difficulties, delivering unfavourable feedback, as advocate for students in negotiating with senior staff, staff and patients in department, on wards and on-call)
- *Can reflect and critically analyse own performance
- *Can critically and objectively analyse performance of others
- *Able to identify, prioritise and solve problems
- *Identifies and manages risk
- *Numerate and literate
- *Able to work effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team
- *Committed to developing and extending pharmacy services
- *Able to critically evaluate evidence.
- *Able to implement change
- *Proven ability to work to deadlines and time management without supervision.
- *Well motivated and reliable
- *Able to work with all grades of staff -- clinical and managerial
- *Professional manner
- *Willingness to travel across all sites within the Trust as required by the job role.
- *Commitment to own Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
- *Good teaching and presentation skills (variety of methods, individual and small & large groups)
- *Experience as a trainer
- *Experience of supervision, developing and appraising staff as well as giving feedback
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *4 year vocational Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
- *Post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience
- *Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council
- *Willingness to work towards non-medical prescribing qualification
- *1 year pre-registration training plus specialist knowledge acquired through diploma level
Desirable
- *Working towards Level I Faculty Membership with the RPS
- *Non-medical prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- *Maintain registration as a pharmacist with the GPhC
- *Significant post-registration hospital pharmacy experience in oncology
- *Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in oncology
- *Demonstrates good knowledge of oncology and current issues
- *Previous participation in multi-disciplinary team
- *Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for providing high quality pharmaceutical care
- *Demonstrates good critical appraisal skills
- *Knowledge of national initiatives and guidelines, e.g. NICE, NSF
- *Possesses knowledge of available resources to answer Medicines Information queries
Desirable
- *Experience of teaching/presenting to other healthcare professionals/patients
- *Ability to manage budgets and deliver on cost improvement programmes
- *Previous involvement in clinical trials
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Able to use initiative and work without supervision when necessary
- *Good communication skills, written and verbal, with ability to demonstrate fluency, clarity and effectiveness at all levels.
- *IT and presentation skills and report writing
- *Time management skills
- *Organisational skills
- *Negotiating skills
- *Co-ordination of duties of staff
- *Can prioritise local and own workload and that of others
- *Can meet deadlines
- *Can remain composed and effective in demanding situations (students in difficulties, delivering unfavourable feedback, as advocate for students in negotiating with senior staff, staff and patients in department, on wards and on-call)
- *Can reflect and critically analyse own performance
- *Can critically and objectively analyse performance of others
- *Able to identify, prioritise and solve problems
- *Identifies and manages risk
- *Numerate and literate
- *Able to work effectively with all members of the multidisciplinary team
- *Committed to developing and extending pharmacy services
- *Able to critically evaluate evidence.
- *Able to implement change
- *Proven ability to work to deadlines and time management without supervision.
- *Well motivated and reliable
- *Able to work with all grades of staff -- clinical and managerial
- *Professional manner
- *Willingness to travel across all sites within the Trust as required by the job role.
- *Commitment to own Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
- *Good teaching and presentation skills (variety of methods, individual and small & large groups)
- *Experience as a trainer
- *Experience of supervision, developing and appraising staff as well as giving feedback
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).
