Job summary
Are you a dynamic and motivated pharmacist looking to make a significant impact in both education and clinical practice? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a pharmacist to join the Pharmacy Education and Training team. We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced clinical pharmacist with excellent communication skills.
Key responsibilities:
- To deputise for the Lead Education and Training pharmacist
- Planning and delivery of the Trainee Pharmacist Foundation year programme
- Developing newly qualified pharmacist
- Effectively contributing to the training of staff
- Acting as a professional role model and mentor in clinical pharmacy practice
- Acting as Designated Supervisor and Designated Prescribing Practitioner to Trainee Pharmacists at SFHT
- To provide efficient, high quality, accurate and cost-effective clinical pharmacy service to the Trust.
We actively encourage opportunities for research, service improvement, and pursuing postgraduate qualifications. Career progression and regional leadership are key priorities within the Sherwood Forest Hospitals Pharmacy department.
If you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a real difference, apply now and become a vital part of our team!
Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.
We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.
We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.
Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:
Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK
Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc, BPharm or MSc in Pharmacy
- Member of the GPhC
- Diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy gained through 2 years of post-graduate study
- Independent Pharmacist prescribing qualification
Desirable
- Qualification in teaching
- Leadership and Management course/qualification
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Member of other relevant Pharmacy-related professional associations
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexibility in working hours
- Able to work extended hours and On Call
- Car driver
Experience
Essential
- Substantial previous hospital experience (post registration)
- Significant experience of working as a clinical teacher
- Significant knowledge of the MPharm undergraduate course, Foundation Year Trainee Pharmacist training and postgraduate courses
- Clinical knowledge from aspects of career to date
- Experience of staff management
- Experience of change management
- Strategic Planning
- Experience of ensuring competence through continuing professional development
- Mentoring of pharmacists and pharmacy staff/ students.
- Experience of delivering education and training to multidisciplinary groups
- Good interpersonal, negotiating and presentation skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to work alone and make decisions, good communicator
- Record of working effectively in a team
- Positive thinker, problem solver
- Medicines information skills
- Able to adapt to differing student needs
- Highly organised and able to prioritise
- Self motivated, excellent organisational skills, able to motivate others, to manage time effectively and work to deadline, even when under pressure
- Competent ICT skills - especially presentation software and Word
- Confident, accurate, assertive
- Empathetic and approachable
- Patient and diplomatic
Desirable
- Experience and understanding of Education and Training processes
- Previous experiences of working with other educational institutes
- Experience in management roles
- Evidence-based practice
- Experience of extended roles
- Experience of specialist work within an area of pharmacy
Further Training
Essential
- Experience of drug usage evaluation and financial reporting
- Audit experience
Desirable
- Project work.
- Practice research
- Management training/qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical Pharmacy knowledge associated with completion of the Pharmacy degree course
- Experience gained through pre-registration training
- Broad clinical knowledge from aspects of career to date.
- Training and Assessment methodology
- CPD process
- Mandatory training requirements of all relevant professional bodies
Desirable
- Designated Supervisor and / or Designated Prescribing Practitioner experience
- Clinical Governance
- Awareness of current and future education and training issues within NHS at national level
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- BSc, BPharm or MSc in Pharmacy
- Member of the GPhC
- Diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy gained through 2 years of post-graduate study
- Independent Pharmacist prescribing qualification
Desirable
- Qualification in teaching
- Leadership and Management course/qualification
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Member of other relevant Pharmacy-related professional associations
Contractual Requirements
Essential
- Flexibility in working hours
- Able to work extended hours and On Call
- Car driver
Experience
Essential
- Substantial previous hospital experience (post registration)
- Significant experience of working as a clinical teacher
- Significant knowledge of the MPharm undergraduate course, Foundation Year Trainee Pharmacist training and postgraduate courses
- Clinical knowledge from aspects of career to date
- Experience of staff management
- Experience of change management
- Strategic Planning
- Experience of ensuring competence through continuing professional development
- Mentoring of pharmacists and pharmacy staff/ students.
- Experience of delivering education and training to multidisciplinary groups
- Good interpersonal, negotiating and presentation skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to work alone and make decisions, good communicator
- Record of working effectively in a team
- Positive thinker, problem solver
- Medicines information skills
- Able to adapt to differing student needs
- Highly organised and able to prioritise
- Self motivated, excellent organisational skills, able to motivate others, to manage time effectively and work to deadline, even when under pressure
- Competent ICT skills - especially presentation software and Word
- Confident, accurate, assertive
- Empathetic and approachable
- Patient and diplomatic
Desirable
- Experience and understanding of Education and Training processes
- Previous experiences of working with other educational institutes
- Experience in management roles
- Evidence-based practice
- Experience of extended roles
- Experience of specialist work within an area of pharmacy
Further Training
Essential
- Experience of drug usage evaluation and financial reporting
- Audit experience
Desirable
- Project work.
- Practice research
- Management training/qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- Clinical Pharmacy knowledge associated with completion of the Pharmacy degree course
- Experience gained through pre-registration training
- Broad clinical knowledge from aspects of career to date.
- Training and Assessment methodology
- CPD process
- Mandatory training requirements of all relevant professional bodies
Desirable
- Designated Supervisor and / or Designated Prescribing Practitioner experience
- Clinical Governance
- Awareness of current and future education and training issues within NHS at national level
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
