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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (Weekdays)
Job ref
381-CT-6251479
Employer
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
SWB NHS Trust-Oldbury and Smethwick PCN
Town
Sandwell
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
16/07/2024 23:59

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Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust logo

Senior Clinical Pharmacist

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

Are you a Pharmacist looking to join a forward thinking Primary Care Practice?

Do you share our values of being ‘inspiringcaring, and working as one team’?

Do you want to work in a new and pioneering, integrated healthcare model that joins Primary and Secondary care to improve the healthcare of local  residents?

Then join us at SWB and support our  Summerfield Primary Care Practice 

We are supporting our  newly acquired Summerfield Primary Care GP practice. This exciting opportunity will mean working alongside other members of the primary care team to support medicine optimisation within an extensive and diverse network of GP surgeries for the PCNs. This will be done through various patient facing and non-patient facing clinics.

General Practice is constantly changing and it is an exciting time to join us and become part of our ever growing, supportive, and forward thinking Trust to support our goals

Main duties of the job

The successful applicant will need to share the same high quality values of Trust and the PCNs we work with  out of Summerfield GP Primary care practice, working as part of a team which includes GPs, Advanced Nurse Practitioners, Nurse, Physician Associates, and Social Prescribers.

In addition to an induction programme and training, further training will be provided if not already completed, through the CPPE training pathway to develop the successful applicants further. After which support is provided for personal continued professional development, which is strongly encouraged.

 

Working for our organisation

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality. 

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities. 

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:

  1. Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
  2. Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
  3. Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails 

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant post-qualification experience.
  • Recognises priorities when problem solving and identifies deviations from the normal pattern and is able to refer to seniors or GPs when appropriate

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Independent prescriber
  • Completed or willing to enrol on to start 18-month training pathway (e.g. Primary Care Pharmacy Educational Pathway or Medicines Optimisation in Care Homes).
Desirable criteria
  • Clinical diploma

Communication/Verbal Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Demonstrate the ability to communicate complex and sensitive information in an understandable form to a variety

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • In depth therapeutic and clinical knowledge and understanding of the principles of evidence-- based healthcare.
  • An appreciation of the nature of GPs and general practices.
  • An appreciation of the nature of primary care prescribing, concepts of rational prescribing and strategies for improving prescribing
  • Good IT skills
  • Able to obtain and analyse complex technical information
  • Able to work under pressure and to meet deadlines
  • Gain acceptance for recommendations and influence/motivate/persuade the audience to comply with the recommendations/agreed course of action where there may be significant barriers
  • Safeguarding and other mandatory training

Employer certification / accreditation badges

We are a Living Wage EmployerApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldDisability confident employerStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.

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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Siobhan Preston
Job title
Directorate Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0121 554 3801
Additional information

0121 554 3801 switchboard - ask for Siobhan Preston

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