Job summary
- Main area
- Medicines Management - Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-PST064-0724
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Princess of Wales Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £44,398 - £50,807 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist
Band 7
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Pharmacist to join the Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Pharmacy team. The post holder will be based at the Princess of Wales Hospital (POWH) in Bridgend.
Princess of Wales Hospital is located off the M4 in Bridgend, with easy access from both the West and the East corners of Wales.
Main duties of the job
This role provides an exciting opportunity to build on previous pharmacy experience to enhance your clinical knowledge and medicines management skills within secondary care. Successful candidates will provide a clinical pharmacy service to wards which may include Medicine, Acute Medicine, Surgery, Paediatrics, COTE, ITU and Mental Health. Duties will also include dispensary based work where we service a wide range of out-patient clinics. This is an excellent opportunity to further develop and hone your clinical pharmacy skills in a dynamic working environment. There is opportunity to contribute to the education and training of junior pharmacists and trainees.
The successful candidate will possess excellent communication skills and be able to work well as part of a multidisciplinary team.
CTMUHB is an integrated organisation providing acute, community and mental health services.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speaking applicants are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Vocational Master’s Degree in Pharmacy.
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical or Hospital Pharmacy, or equivalent clinical experience.
- Good knowledge of medicines management.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
Desirable criteria
- MSc in Clinical Pharmacy.
- Other clinical qualification (certificate/diploma).
- Evidence of building your portfolio for RPS Faculty.
- Independent prescriber
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration pharmacy experience
- Experience of working effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.
Desirable criteria
- Hospital pharmacy experience.
- Broad experience of clinical pharmacy.
- Experience in primary care pharmacy
Skills
Essential criteria
- Mentoring and Appraisal skills.
- Effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Effective organisational and prioritising skills.
- Skilled negotiator and facilitator.
- Ability to manage conflict and deal with difficult situations
- Able to evaluate information and make decisions involving highly complex facts. • Computer keyboard skills and software packages, including report writing skills.
- Computer keyboard skills and software packages, including report writing skills.
- Ability to present information to individuals and groups
Desirable criteria
- Financial modelling and forecasting skills
- The ability to speak or learn Welsh to a satisfactory level.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gabriella Booth
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Pharmacy-Clinical Services Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 752686
- Additional information
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