Clinical Pharmacist - Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to join the Inflammatory Bowel Disease team at the University Hospital of Llandough.

The post holder will have the opportunity to provide clinical pharmacy services and medicines management to patients of the highly specialised Inflammatory Bowel Disease service.

The post holder will be supported in developing their advanced practice with support from the lead pharmacist for Inflammatory Bowel Disease and the wider multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

This is a brand-new post with has been developed with the Inflammatory Bowel Disease service to ensure we can deliver safe and effective medicines to IBD patients within CAVUHB. There have been many advances in treatment options within IBD over recent years, which makes it an exciting opportunity for a clinical pharmacist to join and contribute to the IBD service to benefit our IBD patients at CAVUHB.

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic pharmacist, with excellent communication skills who will work well within the multi-disciplinary team (MDT).

The role will have responsibility for providing an initiation and surveillance service for all patients on biologics and immunomodulators with supervision including homecare provisions. This would improve medicines optimisation, patient education, safety and compliance. In addition, the pharmacist would help to reduce costs through unnecessary prescribing and dose adjustments with senior support from the IBD team.

Working closely with the MDT, you will develop your role as a specialist pharmacist in IBD with supervision, training and support from the lead IBD pharmacist who provides specialist pharmacist input to the IBD MDT and runs pharmacist led biologic clinics.

Your professionalism, excellent inter-personal skills and enthusiasm will equip you to be a valued contributor to our service and to develop to be a key member of our wider IBD team.

About us

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.

Our mission is "Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together", and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. Our 10-year transformation and improvement strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, is our chance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable for the future.