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Highly Specialist Pharmacist - Education and Training 

Full time  37.5 hours per week. Permanent post

We are looking for a Pharmacist with  experience in education and  training to work at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust. 

This is an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist to join the wonderful friendly pharmacy team at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust.

We are looking for a specialised Band 8a pharmacist who will have significant autonomy in taking forward developments in delivering a programme of practice-based clinical teaching for undergraduate student pharmacists on the MPharm degree course at the School of Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences (University of Central Lancashire) at the Bolton Hospital site.

You will lead and manage the training of pharmacy staff within the department, working alongside our experienced Senior Pharmacy Technician for Education and Training. 

We want all our staff to have the ability to reach their full potential and share with others the great work they do. Bolton has electronic prescribing throughout the hospital and is a leader in digital transformation projects.

Main duties of the job

Education and Training

• To work with other Clinical Tutors and the Placement Team at the university to continually develop and evaluate the programme of practice-based clinical teaching. 
• To ensure the skills for providing person-centred care, medicines optimisation / pharmaceutical care, and safe and effective prescribing are taught and assessed within the practice-based clinical teaching programme, including necessary clinical assessment skills.  
• To develop and use appropriate assessment tools to enable student pharmacists to demonstrate their clinical knowledge and skills  
• To provide appropriate training and support for all staff involved with supervising and assessing student pharmacists.   
• To analyse student pharmacists’ evaluations of the practice-based clinical teaching programme, alongside other Clinical Tutors and the Placement Team at the university. 

Please see the attached Job Description for further details. 

Working for our organisation

We are looking for people who share our core Trust values, which are:

 ‘Vision, Openness, Integrity, Compassion, Excellence ’

The vision of this Trust is to be recognised by the people of Bolton and beyond as an excellent provider of health and care services and a great place to work.  We are striving to attract, recruit and retain high calibre skilled staff which reflect our communities. We are an inclusive employer who trains and develops our staff in a positive learning environment.   We aim to be consciously inclusive and therefore applications from all sectors of the community are welcomed. We would particularly encourage candidates from a black and minority ethnic (BAME) background and candidates with health conditions or impairments.