Job summary
We are looking for enthusiastic clinical pharmacists who can work as part of a team and are flexible regarding working practices.
You will be a highly motivated individual with good communication skills and a desire to use your knowledge, skills and experience to improve patient care and influence healthcare professionals in the best use of medicines.
The successful candidate will deliver a quality ward based clinical pharmacy service with support and guidance from our friendly team. You will undertake 3-month rotations through a variety of core clinical specialties to develop the foundation clinical skills and knowledge required to build a career within the NHS and progress to band 7.
UHB is one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country. We have posts available at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital and Good Hope Hospital. Post holders based at Heartlands or Good Hope will also have the opportunity to undertake a rotation at Solihull Hospital.
You will be encouraged to undertake a clinical diploma or equivalent RPS Foundation pathway and subsequently non-medical prescribing qualification. You will also be supported by formal induction training and dedicated time for education and training.
We welcome applications from qualified pharmacists in all sectors wanting to begin a career in hospital pharmacy as well as current Foundation Trainees looking to begin their career in the NHS.
Training and support will be provided.
Main duties of the job
Using our advanced electronic patient record and prescription tool PICs, you will work alongside our technical team to review medicines reconciliations, optimise patient's medications and verify discharge prescriptions.
You will provide an extended service to the Acute Medical Unit as part of a larger clinical team to support medicines reconciliation at the point of admission ensuring excellent care to patients admitted to UHB.
You will work as the Responsible Pharmacist in our main dispensaries supporting the workflow as well as clinically screening clinic charts from a wide variety of specialities. Candidates based at Good Hope Hospital and Heartlands Hospital (as part or rotation to Solihull) will have an opportunity to screen outpatient prescriptions from a large variety of clinical specialities
This post holder will work weekends and bank holidays as per rotas, as well as a late-night service in our dispensaries and providing on-call services with support from a more experienced pharmacist.
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)
- *Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- *Has commenced or is willing to commence a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification
- *Evidence of continued Professional Development in Pharmacy related matters
Desirable
- *Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- *Member of UKCPA
- *In-house training and accreditation for formulation of PN and final check of aseptic products
- To be willing to work towards a non-medical prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- *Experience working within an NHS/ Healthcare environment with clinicians and other health care professionals at all levels of the organisation.
- *Post-registration work experience as a pharmacist in hospital pharmacy, or the ability to demonstrate the equivalent level of knowledge.
- *Evidence of risk management and service improvements.
- *Demonstrates commitment for providing high quality pharmaceutical care.
- *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.
- *Demonstrates good knowledge of hospital clinical pharmacy and current issues.
Desirable
- *Demonstrates good knowledge of hospital pharmacy and current issues
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Good presentation skills
- *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
- *Able to use initiative and work without supervision when necessary
- *Able to interact with clinical and managerial staff
- *Demonstrates good critical appraisal skills
- *Able to work with drug budget information
- *Ability to delegate work effectively to others
- *Ability to persuade, influence, negotiate and motivate. Material may sometimes be contentious
- *Ability to propose changes to practice and lead on service development for specialist area, developing and implementing policy for that area.
- *To work proactively and on own initiative within broad occupational policies
- *Able to work with all grades of staff
- Capacity to work calmly under pressure
- *Demonstrates commitment for providing high quality pharmaceutical care
- *Flexible to the demands of the post, the needs of the pharmacy service and other staff
- *Participation in 7 day week rota including bank holidays and weekends
- *Ability to travel across all service sites as required by the job role
Desirable
- *Demonstrates teaching/mentoring skills & ability to motivate other staff
- *Demonstrates good critical appraisal skills
- *Propose changes in conjunction with service groups which have wider implications/development of service wide performance policies
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *4 year vocational Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
- *Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- *Has commenced or is willing to commence a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification
- *Evidence of continued Professional Development in Pharmacy related matters
Desirable
- *Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- *Member of UKCPA
- *In-house training and accreditation for formulation of PN and final check of aseptic products
- To be willing to work towards a non-medical prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential
- *Experience working within an NHS/ Healthcare environment with clinicians and other health care professionals at all levels of the organisation.
- *Post-registration work experience as a pharmacist in hospital pharmacy, or the ability to demonstrate the equivalent level of knowledge.
- *Evidence of risk management and service improvements.
- *Demonstrates commitment for providing high quality pharmaceutical care.
- *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.
- *Demonstrates good knowledge of hospital clinical pharmacy and current issues.
Desirable
- *Demonstrates good knowledge of hospital pharmacy and current issues
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Good presentation skills
- *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
- *Able to use initiative and work without supervision when necessary
- *Able to interact with clinical and managerial staff
- *Demonstrates good critical appraisal skills
- *Able to work with drug budget information
- *Ability to delegate work effectively to others
- *Ability to persuade, influence, negotiate and motivate. Material may sometimes be contentious
- *Ability to propose changes to practice and lead on service development for specialist area, developing and implementing policy for that area.
- *To work proactively and on own initiative within broad occupational policies
- *Able to work with all grades of staff
- Capacity to work calmly under pressure
- *Demonstrates commitment for providing high quality pharmaceutical care
- *Flexible to the demands of the post, the needs of the pharmacy service and other staff
- *Participation in 7 day week rota including bank holidays and weekends
- *Ability to travel across all service sites as required by the job role
Desirable
- *Demonstrates teaching/mentoring skills & ability to motivate other staff
- *Demonstrates good critical appraisal skills
- *Propose changes in conjunction with service groups which have wider implications/development of service wide performance policies
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).
