Advanced Pharmacist – Adult Medicine & Urgent Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please refer to the attached Patient Specification and Job Description.

• Support the Lead Pharmacist for Medicine to manage the pharmacy clinical service across the Adult Medicine Division
• Providing professional leadership and support for other pharmacy services as needed.
• Liaising with nursing and medical staff, senior clinicians and managers to drive forward improvements within Adult Medicine
• Demonstrate a high level of commitment to and enthusiasm for research, audit and education in the clinical area.
• To act as a deputy for Team medicine when needed.
• To be a line manager to designated staff within the team. To be responsible for managing attendance and performance, and identifying staff training needs through individual performance development plans.
• To participate in the provision of the Pharmacy on-call emergency duty service (2nd on-call)

Person Specification

Educations, Training and Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to Master's degree in pharmacy level or equivalent level of education, training or experience
• Registration with the GPHC
• Achieved postgraduate clinical qualification (or equivalent knowledge/experience) diploma /MSc Clinical Pharmacy
• Registered Independent prescriber

Desirable

• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, UKCPA or other Society
• RPS faculty recognition or Advanced Pharmacist Accreditation
• Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• Extensive post-graduate hospital clinical pharmacy experience
• Clinical experience in a range of ward/clinical areas
• Experience of working on consultant ward rounds
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Expert clinical knowledge of commonly prescribed medicines with Medicine
• Good knowledge of NICE guidelines for common conditions
• Preparation of guidelines involving other healthcare professionals
• NHS arrangements, eg ICB, NICE, CQC, Clinical Governance

Skills

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal skills, honest, trustworthy, motivated, influencing and negotiating skills
• Time management/Organisation/Delegation/ Prioritisation
• IT (Microsoft/Powerpoint/Ascribe)

Desirable

• Line management/supervision

Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes

Essential

• Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Kettering General Hospitals

Rothwell Road

Kettering

NN16 8UZ

Employer's website

https://www.kgh.nhs.uk/working-for-us (Opens in a new tab)