Job summary
We are looking for an enthusiastic Clinical Pharmacist to join our expanding team elderly care team. You will be based in our DME team as we look to support the MDT in new service developments. There will be further opportunities to work across elderly care admission and discharge pathways to support patients with complex discharge planning needs.
We are looking for a Pharmacist with a passion of elderly care and medicines optimisation to join the team. The multidisciplinary frailly admission team, based in the emergency department, streamline elderly patients to our DME beds for the focused care our teams can provide.
Main duties of the job
- To provide a clinical pharmacy service to ward(s) within specialist area.
- To deliver designated performance objectives specific to the allocated area(s).
Clinical Development Opportunities
We are looking to recruit a pharmacist with an interest in the management of the healthcare needs of elderly care patients, such as:
- Falls prevention
- Bone protection
- Polypharmacy
- Complex discharge planning need
Depending on the service development and service needs there will be the opportunity to work across a range of DME areas.
Our Clinical Pharmacists are all trained to provide extended hours services to critical care and the emergency department. These services help to prompt the attainment of national medicines reconciliation standards and ensure follow up on the most unwell patients in the hospital, putting the patient at the heart of what we do.
About us
Our Trust
Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke's Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people - patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing 'outstanding' care to our patients and rated 'Good' overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH's values - Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent - are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.
CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people's age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Professional Development Opportunities
We are looking to provide a range of opportunities to develop skills in professional competencies as:
- Supporting medication safety and risk management
- Attending Clinical Governance and DME service centre meetings
- Service development planning and KPI monitoring
- Supervising, teaching and mentoring pharmacy colleagues and other healthcare professional
- Aiding the advanced clinical pharmacist for DME in the implementation of NICE guidance, medication formulary reviews and horizon scanning
- Working collaboratively with the DME medical team, the early intervention team, the discharge planning team and primary care providers enhance patient care
- To be engaged with joint primary and secondary care reviews of the shared prescribing guidelines
- Developing leadership skills by under taking the role of chief clinical pharmacist
- Optimising, maintaining and evolving the use of our EPMA system, EPIC, in line with CUH holding the highest international quality standard for digitalised inpatient care (HIMSS EMRAM stage 7)
Education and Training Opportunities
The pharmacy departments education and training team is keen to develop all eligible pharmacists in areas including:
- Independent prescribing
- Supporting RPS Faculty portfolio development
- Participation in our well-established in house clinical pharmacy forum
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can only apply for this post as a secondment and must have the approval of your current line manager before applying.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 6th October 2024
Interviews are due to be held on 15th October 2024
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Professional Development Opportunities
We are looking to provide a range of opportunities to develop skills in professional competencies as:
- Supporting medication safety and risk management
- Attending Clinical Governance and DME service centre meetings
- Service development planning and KPI monitoring
- Supervising, teaching and mentoring pharmacy colleagues and other healthcare professional
- Aiding the advanced clinical pharmacist for DME in the implementation of NICE guidance, medication formulary reviews and horizon scanning
- Working collaboratively with the DME medical team, the early intervention team, the discharge planning team and primary care providers enhance patient care
- To be engaged with joint primary and secondary care reviews of the shared prescribing guidelines
- Developing leadership skills by under taking the role of chief clinical pharmacist
- Optimising, maintaining and evolving the use of our EPMA system, EPIC, in line with CUH holding the highest international quality standard for digitalised inpatient care (HIMSS EMRAM stage 7)
Education and Training Opportunities
The pharmacy departments education and training team is keen to develop all eligible pharmacists in areas including:
- Independent prescribing
- Supporting RPS Faculty portfolio development
- Participation in our well-established in house clinical pharmacy forum
Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.
Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can only apply for this post as a secondment and must have the approval of your current line manager before applying.
This vacancy will close at midnight on 6th October 2024
Interviews are due to be held on 15th October 2024
Benefits to you
At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.
On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only caf, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.
CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.
Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters level degree in pharmacy.
- Post-graduate preregistration year.
- Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Completed Certificate (Year 1) of Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/General Pharmacy Practice and studying for completion of year 2.
Desirable
- Completed year 1 and year 2 of Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/General Pharmacy Practice).
- Qualified and registered as an Independent prescriber
- Risk management training.
- Professional and final accuracy checking
Experience
Essential
- Moderate post-registration hospital experience including prescription screening in inpatients/outpatients, medicines reconciliation, medicines information.
- Experienced clinical pharmacist who has covered a range of specialities.
- Documentation in medical notes.
- Writing reports
- Writing or assisting in writing drug policies and guidelines
- Evidence of having conducted a clinical audit
Desirable
- Recent post-registration hospital experience, ideally including previous experience in a teaching hospital and experience of more than one hospital.
- Experienced clinical pharmacist (at band 7) in elderly care.
- Experience as a personal tutor to a range of staff groups.
- Drug expenditure analysis and reporting.
Knowledge
Essential
- Good clinical knowledge of drugs and therapeutic trends within elderly care.
- Knowledge of NICE and NPSA guidance and subsequent examples of local implementation in elderly care
- Knowledge of Health care systems and NHS changes, with particular emphasis on complex discharge planning needs
- Computer literate with experience of Word, Powerpoint and Excel
- Familiar with the use of a range of visual aids for teaching.
- Pharmacy computer systems training.
Skills
Essential
- Good time management.
- Self motivated.
- Able to give oral presentations appropriate to the level of the audience
- Good consultation skills.
- Proven ability to influence and negotiate with all grades of staff.
- Able to work well in a team
- Ability to listen and act on direction from senior pharmacists
Desirable
- Ability to remain calm and work effectively under pressure and to deadlines.
- Able to produce written support materials for training.
- Proven ability to teach and train a range of staff groups.
Additional Requirements
Essential
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters level degree in pharmacy.
- Post-graduate preregistration year.
- Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Completed Certificate (Year 1) of Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/General Pharmacy Practice and studying for completion of year 2.
Desirable
- Completed year 1 and year 2 of Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy/General Pharmacy Practice).
- Qualified and registered as an Independent prescriber
- Risk management training.
- Professional and final accuracy checking
Experience
Essential
- Moderate post-registration hospital experience including prescription screening in inpatients/outpatients, medicines reconciliation, medicines information.
- Experienced clinical pharmacist who has covered a range of specialities.
- Documentation in medical notes.
- Writing reports
- Writing or assisting in writing drug policies and guidelines
- Evidence of having conducted a clinical audit
Desirable
- Recent post-registration hospital experience, ideally including previous experience in a teaching hospital and experience of more than one hospital.
- Experienced clinical pharmacist (at band 7) in elderly care.
- Experience as a personal tutor to a range of staff groups.
- Drug expenditure analysis and reporting.
Knowledge
Essential
- Good clinical knowledge of drugs and therapeutic trends within elderly care.
- Knowledge of NICE and NPSA guidance and subsequent examples of local implementation in elderly care
- Knowledge of Health care systems and NHS changes, with particular emphasis on complex discharge planning needs
- Computer literate with experience of Word, Powerpoint and Excel
- Familiar with the use of a range of visual aids for teaching.
- Pharmacy computer systems training.
Skills
Essential
- Good time management.
- Self motivated.
- Able to give oral presentations appropriate to the level of the audience
- Good consultation skills.
- Proven ability to influence and negotiate with all grades of staff.
- Able to work well in a team
- Ability to listen and act on direction from senior pharmacists
Desirable
- Ability to remain calm and work effectively under pressure and to deadlines.
- Able to produce written support materials for training.
- Proven ability to teach and train a range of staff groups.
Additional Requirements
Essential
- The ability to understand and behave at all times, towards patients, visitors and colleagues according to the Trust values of Safe, Kind, Excellent.
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).
Employer details
Employer name
Cambridge University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Addenbrookes Hospital-Division B
Hills road,
Cambridge
CB2 0QQ
Employer's website
https://www.cuh.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)