Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 24 months (fixed term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-PST066-0724
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Glamorgan Hospital
- Town
- Llantrisant
- Salary
- £35,922 - £43,257 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Pharmacist
Band 6
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
Would you like to be part of an innovative and motivated team whilst developing your career portfolio? Do you share our health board values and passion for improving the care of patients in Wales?
This is an opportunity for an enthusiastic, passionate and committed Pharmacists to support our pharmacy services here in CTMUHB.
In this stimulating role you will work closely with, and be supported by, highly skilled and experienced pharmacy teams. You will be supported to build your clinical knowledge and experience in different specialities. You will also contribute to on call, weekend and bank holiday rotas.
This fixed-term post has a formal developmental opportunity which will include undertaking the distance learning clinical diploma.
We welcome applications from newly qualified Pharmacists registering in Aug 2024 or experienced Pharmacists ready for a new challenge.
Your experience will allow you to develop a full appreciation of all the pharmacy services a Health Board offers. As such, you will be expected to rotate around different sites including primary care, community hospitals, prison to experience service provision in secure environments.
Main duties of the job
- The post holder will provide a safe and effective clinical pharmacy and ward-based medicines management service to clinical area(s) and advise medical staff and nurses on pharmacy matters.
- Your experience will allow you to develop a full appreciation of all the pharmacy services a Health Board offers. As such, you will be expected to rotate around different sites including primary care, community hospitals and prison services to experience service provision in secure environments. Acute site clinical rotations could include medicine, admissions, surgery, trauma and orthopaedics, frailty and palliative care
- The post holder must comply with current legislation and UHB policies. The recommendations contained within the Code of Ethics as issued by the General Pharmaceutical Council and the obligations in the Standards of Good Professional Practice will be upheld at all time
- The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers 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 GPhC
- Evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- Member or RPS
Experience
Essential criteria
- 1 year Trainee Pharmacist Program completion
- Experience of Audit/Project work
Desirable criteria
- Hospital Pharmacy Experience
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Evidence of Team Working and independent working
- Positive attitude towards development (self and service)
- Able to work independently
- Enthusiastic and motivated
- Flexible and adaptable
- Responsible for own actions
- Positive attitude to improvement and development
- Empathetic, diplomatic, professional
Aptitude and Abilites
Essential criteria
- Effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
- Computer, key board skills
- Able to evaluate information and make decisions of highly complex facts
- Effective organisational and prioritising skills
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak/learn Welsh
- Effective time management and able to remain effective in a busy environment
- Ability to manage self and others
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
- John Hickey
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Pharmacy, Clinical Services Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443137
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