Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy Dept., Prospect Park Hospital
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 371-CS152
- Employer
- Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Prospect Park Hospital
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 07/08/2024
Employer heading
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Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – CHS (Inpatient)
Band 8a
Job overview
Interviews will be held on 07 August 2024.
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - CHS (Inpatient) Band 7 / 8a depending on postgraduate qualifications and experience
We are recruiting a band 7 / 8a clinical pharmacist (Inpatient Community Health Services) to join our friendly and supportive pharmacy team. The post offers an excellent opportunity for a dynamic, self-motivated, and enthusiastic pharmacist looking to develop their clinical and leadership skills. This post provides an ideal opportunity for an ambitious band 7 pharmacist looking for progression to a band 8a post. We will support you in your professional development, including support you in undertaking appropriate postgraduate clinical pharmacy diploma and gaining the Independent Prescriber qualification.
Our pharmacy opening hours are 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. We are based at Prospect Park Hospital in Reading. We offer free onsite parking, top staff accommodation less than 5-minute walk from your base. Prospect Park Hospital houses a medical library as well as a restaurant.
Main duties of the job
- To provide high quality, specialised clinical pharmacy service to the inpatient community health wards to ensure the safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs
- To participate in consultant led ward rounds to support the medicines optimisation agenda for the safe, effective and evidence based use of medicines
- To be responsible for updating and reviewing relevant SOPs and guidelines
Working for our organisation
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer. We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
- Caring for and about you is our top priority
- Committed to providing good quality, safe services
- Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Benefits of working for us include:
- Flexible working options to support work-life balance
- 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
- Generous NHS pension scheme
- Excellent learning and career development opportunities
- ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme including electric vehicles
- Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
- Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
- Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities, the environment and armed forces community to support equality
- Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave
- Free parking across Trust sites
If you share our values and would like to come and work for us, please submit your application as soon as possible as we'll occasionally close roles early that have a high number of applications.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The 3/4 “must haves” for you to be considered for this role:
· Experience in general / acute hospital setting
· Self motivated, confident and ability to prioritise
· Have a flexible approach to work in order to meet the developing needs of the pharmacy service
· Strong team player and must be able to navigate conflicting work priorities
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call: Dr Elizabeth Francis, Deputy Chief Pharmacist on 07876217104 or email: [email protected] who’ll be delighted to help.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
Person specification
Education/Qualifications/Training
Essential criteria
- Good Pharmacy Honours degree (BPharm or MPharm)
- Postgraduate Certificate in clinical pharmacy
- Postgraduate diploma or Master’s degree in clinical pharmacy (Band 8a)
- Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
Desirable criteria
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Independent prescriber
Continuous Professional Development
Essential criteria
- Evidence of continuing professional development and compliance with the GPhC CPD on-line recording system to maintain fitness to practice
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial post registration experience as a practising pharmacist
- Substantial experience in a general clinical / hospital pharmacy including ward based clinical work
- Relevant experience and understanding of CHS services/settings
- Experience of chairing working groups and committees
- Experience of providing medicines related information to patients / carers
- Experience in audit or project facilitation
- Experience in undergraduate and junior pharmacist/pre-registration training/teaching
- Experience of multidisciplinary team working
- Experience of line management and clinical supervision (Band 8a)
Desirable criteria
- Line management and clinical supervision experience
- Experience of service planning/development
- Experience of budget management
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to critically appraise research and incorporate into practice
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to influence, negotiate with and practice at senior and directorate level
- Excellent interpersonal and negotiation skills to communicate confidently in all situations
- Demonstrates ability to organise and prioritise own workload
- Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the Clinical Governance Agenda
- Keen to undertake self-development
- Ability to work alone and as part of a team
- Demonstrates an adequate level of emotional intelligence, able to empathise, support and be sensitive to the needs of others
- Demonstrates the ability to deal with, analyse and interpret and rationalise highly complex information in accordance/suitable for a variety of different stakeholders, including patients and carers
- Role model for junior pharmacists and pre-registration pharmacists
Additional Requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability and willingness to travel across all Trust sites within the Berkshire Health economy
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Elizabeth Francis
- Job title
- Deputy Chief Pharmacist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07876217104
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