Job summary
We have a fantastic opportunity for a motivated and dynamic senior pharmacist with excellent communication skills to develop and lead a specialised clinical pharmacy service to our emergency surgical portals. Successful applicants will be supported to work towards specialist and advanced clinical practice. You will be joining our existing team of pharmacists and technicians supported by the principal pharmacist for surgical services (division 1).
You will join a progressively expanding vertically integrated multidisciplinary work force, working closely with our team of senior clinical pharmacists for surgery, medicine, primary care, and prescribing support teams.
Our department prides itself in cross sector working breaking down barriers, highlighted by a strong admission avoidance agenda. The pharmacy department has a proven record for digital innovation and strong education links with universities leading to outstanding staff development program.
The successful candidates will need to have experience in working across a variety of clinical areas within surgical specialties, possess experience in service delivery and management, and a proven record of delivering effective change within dynamic environments.
The post will be offered at band 7 or band 8a depending on experience.
If you are interested in the role and believe you hold the qualities we require, then apply!
Main duties of the job
To provide expert pharmaceutical advice regarding surgical patients who have complex drug regimes, polypharmacy and medicines adverse effect.
To develop and deliver innovative services that help improve the surgical patient journey and outcome.
Regularly recording key performance indicators for example clinical interventions and activity
Promote the safe, appropriate, and economic use of drugs
Counsel and advise patients and staff on use of medicines
To support the Trust Medication Safety Officer and Pharmacy Risk Governance lead with the medicine's optimisation and governance agenda
Providing a 7-day clinical service to the surgical emergency unit and acute admissions wards.
Take part in extended hours, weekends, and bank holiday out of hours services as required by departmental rotas
Monitor the safe and secure storage of medication both within the pharmacy department and on the wards
Implement local and national guidelines where appropriate e.g., NICE.
Supervise rotational and foundation pharmacists, undergraduate students, and ward - based technicians.
About us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust (RWT) is one of the largest acute and community providers in the West Midlands. We provide secondary and tertiary services with more than 850 beds on the New Cross Site, along with a second site at Cannock Chase Hospital. The New Cross site is located on the eastern side of Wolverhampton in easy reach of the city center as well as just 30 minutes from Birmingham.
Our Pharmacy department has just received recurrent investment, our plan is to utilise this investment to recruit motivated pharmacists to develop our 7-day clinical pharmacy service to our medicine portals promoting admission avoidance, pharmacist led discharge, and vertical integrational. Support is available to complete the independent prescribing qualification. We welcome applications from pharmacists looking to develop their skills in acute and emergency medicine.
We work together, and in conjunction with other stake holders, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers. We want to employ and retain the best work force we can, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but have the potential to be, if you are dynamic, forward-thinking, and enthusiastic we want you to join us.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Pharmacy department has a 'can do' attitude and strives to always provide the best service possible to our patients and our colleagues. The pharmacy vision is to be a 'service without walls', integrated not only within the ward teams supporting excellent patient care but bridging the gap between secondary and primary care teams.
Teamwork is at the heart of everything we do within pharmacy. We are a multicultural and diverse department with a very friendly professional working environment promoting a strong health and wellbeing agenda for our workforce and as well as our patients. For more information regarding the detail of expected duties and personal specifications, please read the attached documents for a more detailed description of the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Pharmacy department has a 'can do' attitude and strives to always provide the best service possible to our patients and our colleagues. The pharmacy vision is to be a 'service without walls', integrated not only within the ward teams supporting excellent patient care but bridging the gap between secondary and primary care teams.
Teamwork is at the heart of everything we do within pharmacy. We are a multicultural and diverse department with a very friendly professional working environment promoting a strong health and wellbeing agenda for our workforce and as well as our patients. For more information regarding the detail of expected duties and personal specifications, please read the attached documents for a more detailed description of the role.
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Demonstrable experience as a clinical pharmacist relevant to the post
- Demonstrated project management and leadership skills
- Any postgraduate qualifications achieved following registration as a pharmacist
- Experience of working as part of the wider Pharmacy team within surgery
- Give examples of how you have completed continued professional development and integrated theses into your current practice
Desirable
- Independant Prescriber qualification or working towards this qualification
- Ability to demonstrate specialist knowledge of pharmacy in the context of surgery and acute medicine
- Post graduate management qualification or relevant experience
- A specific interest in a specialist area of pharmacy
- Any outside interest to pharmacy that provide you with professional and personal qualities you can bring to the role, please list these in your response and how they benefit you
- Experience of wider cross sector working e.g., virtual wards, primary care, prescribing support team
Person Specification
Essential
Essential
- Demonstrable experience as a clinical pharmacist relevant to the post
- Demonstrated project management and leadership skills
- Any postgraduate qualifications achieved following registration as a pharmacist
- Experience of working as part of the wider Pharmacy team within surgery
- Give examples of how you have completed continued professional development and integrated theses into your current practice
Desirable
- Independant Prescriber qualification or working towards this qualification
- Ability to demonstrate specialist knowledge of pharmacy in the context of surgery and acute medicine
- Post graduate management qualification or relevant experience
- A specific interest in a specialist area of pharmacy
- Any outside interest to pharmacy that provide you with professional and personal qualities you can bring to the role, please list these in your response and how they benefit you
- Experience of wider cross sector working e.g., virtual wards, primary care, prescribing support team
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).
