Job summary
Are you looking to further your critical care pharmacy career?
Do you thrive in a specialist team where your ongoing development is considered a marker of our success?
Do you want to develop as a clinical leader alongside expert clinical practice?
Critical care specialist pharmacists are the therapeutic experts in a fast paced and truly multidisciplinary environment. With a professional credentialing route soon to be launched there is a clear pathway for development. Our specialist critical care pharmacists are embedded in ward rounds and lead many aspects of governance, quality improvement and education across the 3 adult critical care units. Members of our current critical care pharmacy team are involved in national committees and professional interest groups, part of national research studies, leading aspects of post-graduate higher education courses and have spoken at national critical care symposia. All have benefited from extensive development opportunities facilitated by UHBW.
The Adult Critical Care Department has 60 beds following a period of significant growth including the addition of a newly commissioned Severe Acute Respiratory Failure service (with ECMO), hosting the regional critical care transfer service and 11 extra beds as part of a bespoke unit extension project opening November 2023.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will participate in daily multidisciplinary ward rounds to provide expert advice to a leading critical care department with a commissioned ECMO service.
The post holder will proactively lead quality improvement and clinical governance initiatives for adult critical care therapeutics and develop our fast growing critical care pharmacy service in line with local and national agenda.
The post holder will continue to develop their existing professional, technical and clinical skills through CPD to provide excellent service with innovation to our patients and staff.
The critical care pharmacy team has expanded rapidly to match the increasing number and complexity of critical patients seen in a tertiary referral centre including CAR-Therapy, bone marrow transplant, cardiothoracic surgery and maxillofacial surgery amongst others. The team now comprises 8 pharmacists (including a newly appointed band 8b critical care team lead) and a critical care technician to be recruited imminently in addition to this post.
For further details, please see Job Description and contact us for a chat!
About us
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England.
UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Evidence of UK critical care experience
- Evidence of audit or quality improvement experience
- Evidence of one-to-one and small group teaching experience
- Knowledge of common conditions encountered in area of practice and of safe and appropriate drug treatments
- Knowledge of the legal frameworks for the dispensing, prescribing and administering of medicines
- Quality improvement methodology and project working
Desirable
- Line-management
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Medicinal expenditure analysis and achieved savings
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Proven ability to operate multiple clinical digital systems
- Evidence of excellent oral and written communication skills
- Evidence of problem identification and solving
- Evidence of prioritisation and task management
- Proficient at collaboration and influencing
- Lateral thinking
- Able to critically analyse prescriptions for clinical appropriateness
- Can organise own and others work to meet agreed deadlines
- Ability to make safe and clinically relevant decisions in high pressure environments
- Ability to manage a small team of junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians on a daily basis
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Master's degree (or equivalent) in pharmacy
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
- Postgraduate certificate (or equivalent) in Clinical Pharmacy
Desirable
- Post graduate diploma or Master's degree in Clinical Pharmacy
- Independent prescribing qualification
- Membership of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association (UKCPA) or the Intensive Care Society
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Evidence of UK critical care experience
- Evidence of audit or quality improvement experience
- Evidence of one-to-one and small group teaching experience
- Knowledge of common conditions encountered in area of practice and of safe and appropriate drug treatments
- Knowledge of the legal frameworks for the dispensing, prescribing and administering of medicines
- Quality improvement methodology and project working
Desirable
- Line-management
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
- Medicinal expenditure analysis and achieved savings
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Proven ability to operate multiple clinical digital systems
- Evidence of excellent oral and written communication skills
- Evidence of problem identification and solving
- Evidence of prioritisation and task management
- Proficient at collaboration and influencing
- Lateral thinking
- Able to critically analyse prescriptions for clinical appropriateness
- Can organise own and others work to meet agreed deadlines
- Ability to make safe and clinically relevant decisions in high pressure environments
- Ability to manage a small team of junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians on a daily basis
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Master's degree (or equivalent) in pharmacy
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD)
- Postgraduate certificate (or equivalent) in Clinical Pharmacy
Desirable
- Post graduate diploma or Master's degree in Clinical Pharmacy
- Independent prescribing qualification
- Membership of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacy Association (UKCPA) or the Intensive Care Society
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).
