Acute Medicine/Education & Training Pharmacist

NHS; Swindon; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking an Acute Medicine/Education & Training Pharmacist to enhance clinical pharmacy services and educational training. This role involves overseeing training programs, providing clinical supervision, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Candidates should possess a M Pharm degree and relevant experience in pharmacy education and training.

Qualifications

• Registered pharmacist with GPhC.
• Experience in educational roles and managing teams.
• Actively pursuing continuous professional development.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop pharmacy education and training programs.
• Provide clinical supervision to pharmacy staff.
• Ensure compliance with medicines regulations and safety standards.

Skills

Good communication

Presentation skills

Education

M Pharm Degree

Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy

Tools

Use of financial systems

Job description

Go back Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Acute Medicine/Education & Training Pharmacist

The closing date is 19 June 2025

We have an exiting opportunity for a pharmacist to join our team. If you are passionate about helping others to grow and develop and also want to advance your own clinical skills, this could be the perfect role. Working closely with the lead pharmacist for the medicine division you will be responsible for developing the clinical pharmacy services to acute medicine. In your education and training role, you will work within the pharmacy education, training and workforce team to design, deliver and support training and to provide educational supervision to both pharmacy staff and the wider MDT. This will post will be pivotal in embedding pharmacist prescribers into the acute medical team. If you have not completed your independent prescribing qualification we will therefore support you to do this.

Main duties of the job

Under the direction of the lead pharmacist for education, training and workforce, to be responsible for the management and delivery of the pharmacy education and training programmes

To facilitate and deliver training and act as a clinical tutor for trainee and foundation level pharmacists. To develop Pharmacy practice-based research within the department.

To act as an advanced clinical pharmacist to acute medicine ensuring the accuracy, legality, safety and efficacy of prescribed medication in line with local and national procedures

To support responsible person and deputies in ensuring that the facilities and service are compliant with all aspects of Good Distribution Practice (EU GDP 2013/C 343/01), and all other relevant medicines regulations and quality standards. To manage related training provision to all operational staff within the facility. To act as an operational lead in any relevant aspects of regulatory audit (internal and external).

About us

"Our STAR values - Service, Teamwork, Ambition and Respect - are a golden thread running through everything we do. These values serve as a guiding principle, driving us towards our vision of delivering great joined up services to our local community. Whether at home, in the community, or within the hospital, our goal is to empower individuals to lead independent and healthier lives."

Job responsibilities

Education & Training

1. To lead and develop the pharmacy education and training programmes under the direction of the lead pharmacist for education, training and workforce development.

2. To educate, maintain and develop a team and speciality-based model for clinical pharmacy service provision under the direction of the Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager.

3. To regularly meet with the Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager and Lead Pharmacist for Education, Training and Workforce

Provide and support the on-going education, training, and professional development of clinical pharmacy staff. This includes supervision, training and support to junior pharmacists, trainee pharmacists and other pharmacy staff as necessary

o To organise and/or provide teaching of clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice to undergraduate MPharm students, student nurses, student doctors, non-medical prescriber trainees, and other qualified healthcare professionals. Teaching will include lectures, practical classes, tutorials, experiential visits to GWH pharmacy, supervising research projects and practice based learning.

6. To plan and facilitate GWH's foundation training year for trainee pharmacists, acting as designated supervisor and designated prescribing practitioneras appropriate.

7. To co-ordinate and manage post-graduate clinical diploma pharmacists and pharmacist independent prescriber trainees, including course applications, funding applications, supporting training, and acting in the role of diploma mentor, designated prescribing supervisor and/or designated prescribing practitioner as appropriate.

To implement and support engagement with local, regional and national progressional frameworks for pharmacy staff, including the Acute Hospital Alliance's band 6 to 7 progressional framework.

. To lead on the design, delivery and assessment of MPharm student hospital placements at GWH, promoting hospital pharmacy as a career choice. To promote the department and pharmacy careers through organising and facilitating work experience placements, experiential pharmacy visits, engagement with local schools, colleges and universitites, and participation in local promotional initiatives.

1To prepare business cases to support Education and Training Pharmacy developments

1To arrange and/or deliver relevant departmental meetings that will enable staff to be brought up to date on current issues and provide education on medicines issues.

Clinical Pharmacy

o lead, develop and expand the clinical pharmacy service in acute medicine areas.

2. Act as an advanced pharmacy practitioner for acute medicine, to plan care and identify areas of concern related to medicine use in a specialty.T

3. To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients in acute medicine in line with clinical pharmacy standards and objectives

4. Clinically checking all prescriptions before dispensing and referring to the prescriber any unusual doses, potential drug interactions or incompatibilities for confirmation or revision before authorising dispensing.

5. Assist in clinical decision making to ensure patient safety and medication effectiveness through the medicines optimisation agenda.

6. Counselling patients and discussing any medication-related issues.

LLiaising with other healthcare professionals in Primary and Secondary Care when necessary, using the agreed communication pathways as appropriate.

8. Review results of external audits related to patient care and develop action plans as necessary.

9. To be/ become an Independent Prescriber (IP) and to continue to develop the role of pharmacist independent prescriber within the Trust.

T0. To actively identify and take forward opportunities for generalist pharmacist prescribing within the trust.

11. To be/ become a designated prescribing supervisor and/ordesignated prescribing practitioner for pharmacist prescriber trainees

12. Contribute to the strategic development of pharmacy services and lead by example to enhance the Pharmacy Service reputation both at a local and national level.

13. To deputise for the Deputy Clinical Pharmacy Manager, lead for medicine.

14. To collaborate in the development of Integrated Care Pathways, clinical guidelines, Standard Operating Procedures, Patient Group Directions and any other required policies within the Pharmacy department

Please find attached a full job description and personal specification

Person Specification

Qualifications

• M Pharm Degree or equivalent / General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registration
• Postgraduate diploma (Diploma or MSc) in clinical pharmacy, community pharmacy or similar
• Keeping professionally up to date including CPD
• Lead Pharmacist - Education, Training and Acute Medicine
• Non-medical prescriber
• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)

Experience

• Highly experienced as qualified pharmacist
• Experience working across departmental and organizational boundaries
• Knowledge of financial systems and structures
• Previous experience as an education and training pharmacist
• Experience managing a team
• Experience of service development
• Experience as a diploma tutor

Skills

• Good communication, verbal and written eg SOPs
• Good presentation skills - teaching and repost writing
• Use of financial systems to generate reports
• Able to deal will unpredictable workload eg on-call
• use of databases to collate information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Full-time,Part-time,Flexible working,Compressed hours