Job summary
Advanced Specialist Pharmacist - Antimicrobial Stewardship and Critical Care.
Band 8a £55,690- £62,682 pa
Average of 37.5 hours/week across a 7 day working rota (with a maximum weekend commitment of 1 in 4)
A fantastic opportunity has arisen to become an Advanced Specialist Pharmacist for Antimicrobials and Critical Care at the University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust (UHNM). We are looking for an experienced clinical pharmacist to deliver and lead a high quality and patient-focused clinical pharmacy service to the infectious diseases and adult critical care specialties. We have a 14 bed specialist infectious diseases unit and a 66 bed adult ITU unit.
Main duties of the job
To be considered you will need to be able to proactively engage with clinicians and the wider specialty multi-disciplinary teams to deliver high quality medicines optimisation, governance and safety initiatives; supporting patient flow for both in-patient and out-patient areas, while working effectively as a key member of the team in these dynamic clinical specialties.
Working closely with clinicians, nursing staff and the directorate management team, you will ensure the delivery of evidence-based, safe, cost-effective pharmaceutical care to patients treated within the specialty, whether as inpatients or as outpatients. You will work closely with a team of rotational pharmacists and medicines management technicians to lead the clinical pharmacy service to the inpatient ID ward and to the Critical Care unit. You will also work closely with the department of clinical microbiology to support the wider aims of the trust antimicrobial stewardship activities.
In addition, you will contribute to the strategic development of the clinical pharmacy service provided to the relevant divisions by supporting the Advanced Clinical Lead Pharmacists and the Deputy Chief Pharmacist - Clinical services and the Clinical Director of Pharmacy.
The Pharmacy Directorate is a friendly, enthusiastic and committed team and you would be joining us at an exciting time.
About us
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The attached cover letter and job description give you more information and you can add to this by contacting
Job description
Job responsibilities
The attached cover letter and job description give you more information and you can add to this by contacting
Person Specification
essential qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
- Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma / MSc or equivalent Qualification
- Independent Prescriber with appropriate annotation on GPhC register or willing to undertake appropriate training to become an active independent prescriber
- Commitment and evidence of professional updating and mandatory continuing professional development portfolio
Desirable
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Great Britain (RPSGB) and / or Faculty status
- Formal management and / or leadership qualification
- MSc Clinical Pharmacy
- Member of United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association and / or specialist group(s)
Experience
Essential
- Comprehensive experience as a clinical pharmacist practitioner including a solid grounding in a broad range of clinical specialties.
- Extensive hospital pharmacy experience post Diploma
- Broad knowledge of therapeutics and application to clinical practice
- Experience in working directly with clinicians, the wider multidisciplinary team, patients and the public
- Evidence of ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options to patients and healthcare staff
- Education and training experience including supervision and appraisal, with feedback, of junior staff and students
- Evidence of involvement in writing guidelines
- Experience in working directly with clinicians, the wider multidisciplinary team, patients and the public
- Substantial post registration experience of UK hospital pharmacy practice
- Extensive hospital pharmacy experience post Diploma
- Evidence of involvement in writing guidelines.
- Evidence of involvement in writing guidelines.
Desirable
- Substantial post registration experience of UK hospital pharmacy practice.
- Have recent clinical pharmacy experience in speciality in particular around the use of systemic antifungal agents in complex infections
- Leading specialty representation at MDTs / M&M meetings etc. including delegating actions to colleagues and monitoring outcomes / follow up
- Leading specialty representation at a Trust level
- Have recent clinical pharmacy experience in speciality in particular around the use of systemic antifungal agents in complex infections
- .Leading specialty representation at MDTs / M&M meetings etc. including delegating actions to colleagues and monitoring
- Leading specialty representation at a Trust level in relation to guideline or protocol development.
- Experience working with clinical trials and knowledge of the regulations relating to them
- Experience of directorate pharmacy services and / or writing drug usage reports
- Experience of managing a team Management experience and / or experience of undertaking appraisals
Knowledge, Skills and Training
Essential
- High standard of oral and written (including report writing) communication skills with attention to detail
- Able to demonstrate good leadership skills
- Good and broad understanding of current hospital pharmacy practice and future direction of travel
- Confidence in being able to discuss clinical guidelines and patient management plans with senior clinicians and provide clinical challenge as required
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement
- IT skills and knowledge of the digital medicines agenda.
- Interest in expanding knowledge and self-development
- Evidence of involvement in pharmacy practice research and/or audit
Desirable
- Publication of research in a peer reviewed journal
- Presentation of abstract on pharmacy practice research at a regional or national conference
- Demonstration of using output from audit or service evaluation to re-design / optimise services.
- Evidence of applying change management techniques to service improvement / understanding of QI methodologies
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Professional behaviour and Credibility
- Ability to demonstrate Trust Values
- Enthusiasm and commitment to the specialist role
- Enthusiasm to developing innovative approaches to service delivery and quality improvements
- Patient focused with a strong commitment to providing a high quality care and a positive experience
- Positive attitude to change processes and service transformation
- Positive attitude to change processes and service transformation
- Ability to work under pressure Ability to work with other colleagues as part of a team
- Willingness to undertake flexible work patterns according to service demands. This includes unsocial hours, weekend and bank holiday working
- Able to proactively support the Trust's staff engagement and well-being agenda
- Must have ability to travel between sites
- Ability to adhere to policies, procedures and standards
- Must have ability to respond to urgent on- call requests within 30mins (including travel time) staff living further away from the Trust than this are expected to arrange overnight accommodation at their own cost.
Person Specification
essential qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
- Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma / MSc or equivalent Qualification
- Independent Prescriber with appropriate annotation on GPhC register or willing to undertake appropriate training to become an active independent prescriber
- Commitment and evidence of professional updating and mandatory continuing professional development portfolio
Desirable
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Great Britain (RPSGB) and / or Faculty status
- Formal management and / or leadership qualification
- MSc Clinical Pharmacy
- Member of United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association and / or specialist group(s)
Experience
Essential
- Comprehensive experience as a clinical pharmacist practitioner including a solid grounding in a broad range of clinical specialties.
- Extensive hospital pharmacy experience post Diploma
- Broad knowledge of therapeutics and application to clinical practice
- Experience in working directly with clinicians, the wider multidisciplinary team, patients and the public
- Evidence of ability to appropriately recommend, substantiate and communicate therapeutic options to patients and healthcare staff
- Education and training experience including supervision and appraisal, with feedback, of junior staff and students
- Evidence of involvement in writing guidelines
- Experience in working directly with clinicians, the wider multidisciplinary team, patients and the public
- Substantial post registration experience of UK hospital pharmacy practice
- Extensive hospital pharmacy experience post Diploma
- Evidence of involvement in writing guidelines.
- Evidence of involvement in writing guidelines.
Desirable
- Substantial post registration experience of UK hospital pharmacy practice.
- Have recent clinical pharmacy experience in speciality in particular around the use of systemic antifungal agents in complex infections
- Leading specialty representation at MDTs / M&M meetings etc. including delegating actions to colleagues and monitoring outcomes / follow up
- Leading specialty representation at a Trust level
- Have recent clinical pharmacy experience in speciality in particular around the use of systemic antifungal agents in complex infections
- .Leading specialty representation at MDTs / M&M meetings etc. including delegating actions to colleagues and monitoring
- Leading specialty representation at a Trust level in relation to guideline or protocol development.
- Experience working with clinical trials and knowledge of the regulations relating to them
- Experience of directorate pharmacy services and / or writing drug usage reports
- Experience of managing a team Management experience and / or experience of undertaking appraisals
Knowledge, Skills and Training
Essential
- High standard of oral and written (including report writing) communication skills with attention to detail
- Able to demonstrate good leadership skills
- Good and broad understanding of current hospital pharmacy practice and future direction of travel
- Confidence in being able to discuss clinical guidelines and patient management plans with senior clinicians and provide clinical challenge as required
- Demonstrates advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement
- IT skills and knowledge of the digital medicines agenda.
- Interest in expanding knowledge and self-development
- Evidence of involvement in pharmacy practice research and/or audit
Desirable
- Publication of research in a peer reviewed journal
- Presentation of abstract on pharmacy practice research at a regional or national conference
- Demonstration of using output from audit or service evaluation to re-design / optimise services.
- Evidence of applying change management techniques to service improvement / understanding of QI methodologies
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Professional behaviour and Credibility
- Ability to demonstrate Trust Values
- Enthusiasm and commitment to the specialist role
- Enthusiasm to developing innovative approaches to service delivery and quality improvements
- Patient focused with a strong commitment to providing a high quality care and a positive experience
- Positive attitude to change processes and service transformation
- Positive attitude to change processes and service transformation
- Ability to work under pressure Ability to work with other colleagues as part of a team
- Willingness to undertake flexible work patterns according to service demands. This includes unsocial hours, weekend and bank holiday working
- Able to proactively support the Trust's staff engagement and well-being agenda
- Must have ability to travel between sites
- Ability to adhere to policies, procedures and standards
- Must have ability to respond to urgent on- call requests within 30mins (including travel time) staff living further away from the Trust than this are expected to arrange overnight accommodation at their own cost.
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).
