Highly Specialist Pharmacist - HIV, Sexual & Reproductive Health

Job responsibilities

See attached job description and person specification for full details

Key Relationships

The post-holder will work closely with a wide range of individuals and teams across the Trust and beyond. This includes regular contact with:

• Clinical and managerial staff across HIV and SRH services

• Administrative and clerical staff at various levels

• Patients, carers, and relatives

• External agencies and partner organisations

Accountable for:

• Ensuring the safe, effective, and evidence-based use of medicines across HIV and SRH services

• Consistently demonstrating and promoting Trust values and behaviours in all aspects of the role

• Managing the HIV medicines budget efficiently, ensuring value and sustainability

• Leading or supporting projects, quality improvement initiatives, education, and research activities

• Providing supervisionand potentially line managementfor Band 7 pharmacists within HIV and SRH

• Deputising for the Principal Pharmacist when required

Key Liaison Groups:

• HIV Management Team

• SRH Management Team

• Directorate Management Teams

• Clinical and non-clinical staff within the HIV and SRH departments

• Senior Clinical Pharmacy Practitioners

• Wider pharmacy staff across the Trust

Demonstrable Knowledge/Qualifications

Essential

• Appropriately recommends, substantiates and communicates therapeutic options to prescribers in people living with HIV
• Appropriately recommends, substantiates and communicates therapeutic options to prescribers in a range of MEDICAL patients
• Can screen HIV inpatient AND outpatient prescriptions for appropriateness, safety, accuracy
• Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement
• Identify own training needs
• Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
• Current GPhC pharmacist registration

Desirable

• Independent Prescriber registration with GPhC
• Completed relevant management courses
• Current RPS member
• Current HIVPA member
• Current BHIVA member
• Current BASHH member
• Appointed member with an active role in either BASHH, BHIVA and/or HIVPA
• Demonstrates a whole body system patient-focussed approach
• Recognised postgraduate qualification with a teaching component, or equivalent evidence of teaching experience
• Demonstrates advanced clinical knowledge in health-related quality of life, frailty, co-morbidity and/or polypharmacy management
• 18+ months' experience at Band 7+ in any other speciality
• Currently works in HIV speciality, with HIV clinical care as the main function of the role
• Independent prescribing scope of practice includes HIV

Demonstrable Skills

Essential

• The ability to evaluate quality of own work
• The ability to influence senior staff across the MDT and management
• The ability to develop an idea into a project and see it through to fruition
• The ability to identify and prioritise work (managerial, clinical, operational)
• Can work autonomously and take initiative
• Demonstrates expert clinical knowledge and skills
• Ensures training needs of staff are identified and met in order to undertake the roles required
• Can delegate authority appropriately
• Dynamic to individual preferences/personalities in a team
• Values and behaviours: Consistently demonstrates exceptional values and behaviours, aligning with the Trust's core principles of compassion, ambition and inclusivity
• Values and behaviours: Leads by example and actively fosters these principles among peers and junior colleagues and contributes to a positive, respectful and high-performing team culture

Desirable

• Trained in administration of vaccines
• Trained in phlebotomy (venous acupuncture)
• The ability to influence practice at a directorate level
• Tolerates uncertainty and is resilient
• The ability lead on project management
• Guides and supports others undertaking research
• Integrates research evidence into practice
• The ability to evaluate service provision and quality
• Manages difficult and ambiguous problems
• The ability clinically triage PLHIV presenting to Pharmacy, including eliciting spoken and unspoken needs
• Identifies gaps in the evidence base and makes considered clinical decisions in the absence of strong evidence

Demonstrable Experience

Essential

• Experience in clinical AND operational supervision of others
• Experience in locally implementing national guidance and other commissioning policies
• Works well in a team - support, flexibility, shared vision, shared workload
• Undertakes own research (separate to audits and service evaluations)
• Undertakes clinical audit to improve practice
• Develop, implement, monitor and evaluate protocols, PGDs and guidelines
• Provides education and training to pharmacy and other staff
• Maintains a portfolio of practice
• Can demonstrate innovation in a range of quality improvement projects

Desirable

• Ability to investigate reported incidents including undertaking root cause analyses
• Experience in working collaboratively with outsourced pharmacy providers (not including homecare)
• Experience in finance/commissioning reporting of high cost drugs
• Active participation in multi-disciplinary research
• Presented (orally or poster) at national or international conferences
• Currently utilises non-medical prescriber qualification in an outpatient setting
• Has experience in the formal line management of others (excluding tutoring for training programmes)
• Has 6+ months recent experience using Epic (an electronic health record IT system)
• Currently undertakes pharmacist-led HIV consultation clinics (with or without non-medical prescribing element)
• Currently undertakes pharmacist-led consultation clinics (with or without non-medical prescribing element) in any speciality

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).