Job summary
Employer heading
Post-Registration Foundation Pharmacist - Primary and Community Care
Band 6
We encourage applications from those who consider themselves to have a disability and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
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
ABUHB are offering an exciting opportunity for passionate, motivated, forward-thinking pharmacists to advance their clinical experience and training and provide high quality care to our patients.
These posts provide the opportunity to rotate through primary care and community pharmacy whilst undertaking the HEIW Post-Registration Foundation programme with Cardiff University.
Within each rotation you will have the ability to learn from and be supported by an in-house specialist pharmacist mentor. There is also excellent peer support available through the wider primary care and community pharmacy networks. Training is supported by an in-house programme in addition to the RPS foundation framework for pharmacists which provides an ideal platform for professional and personal development and is recognised at national level.
Our posts allow pharmacists to develop a substantive portfolio of primary care and community pharmacy experience setting you up perfectly for ongoing career opportunities.
If you thrive on a fresh challenge, benefit from collaborative working with other healthcare professionals and want to make a difference to patients’ health in a supportive development environment this post would most definitely suit you.
We welcome applications from foundation trainee pharmacists registering with the General Pharmaceutical Council in August 2024 and from pharmacists who have gained registration in any sector of practice within the last 2 years.
Main duties of the job
To provide medicines management support within Primary care and Community Pharmacy settings including GP practices and to undertake a Post-Registration Foundation Programme including independent prescribing with a Higher Education Institute.
· To a work as a core member of the team within the allocated setting, working effectively with other health and social care professionals delivering services to patients.
· To improve the quality and effectiveness of medicines management across a range of settings.
· To provide patient focussed, prudent healthcare.
· To promote medicines safety.
· To participate in a rotational programme (Rotations may include GP practice, Community Pharmacy, Nursing homes and Complex Care, Community Resource Team, Medicines Management team).
· To supervise pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants and less experienced pharmacists, foundation trainee pharmacists and students.
This post is fixed term/secondment for 6 months to meet the needs of the service.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
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.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person specification
Qualifications and experience
Essential criteria
- Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm)
- Registered with GPhC
- Member of RPS
- Recent experience of pharmacy practice in either hospital, primary care or community
- Experience in undertaking clinical audit
Desirable criteria
- Experience primary care role working with GP practices
- Experience of delivering training sessions to varied groups
Skills
Essential criteria
- Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification
Desirable criteria
- Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification
Desirable criteria
- Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification
Personal Values
Essential criteria
- Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification
Desirable criteria
- Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification
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
- Tracey Witherall
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist Primary and Community Care Academy
- Email address
- [email protected]
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