Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

Isle of Wight NHS Trust; Newport; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK seeks an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to lead clinical services and ensure patient safety. You will work in a supportive environment focused on quality care and continuous improvement. The position requires a Master of Pharmacy degree and significant hospital pharmacy experience. The salary ranges from £55,690 to £62,682 pro rata per annum, with opportunities for full-time work.

Benefits

Onsite day nursery

Cycle-to-work scheme

Discounts at local businesses and gyms

Qualifications

• Significant experience of working in a pharmaceutical environment.
• Current listing on the Pharmacist Register with the GPhC.
• Completed general level framework competency training.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership within the pharmacy team.
• Develop policies, procedures, and guidelines.
• Promote a culture of medicines safety.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical pharmacy knowledge

Communication

Teamwork

Ability to interpret clinical data

Education

Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree

Diploma in pharmacy practice

Job description

We are recruiting for a Advanced Clinical Pharmacist who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards "working together, improving together".

Permanent opportunities for up to full-time working if desired.

The Pharmacy department which is based out of St Mary's Hospital is energetic and forward looking, with a strong culture of patient safety and service quality. We believe in technology supporting excellent clinical practice and releasing time to care, with electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) embedded in practice across the Trust and used creatively to enhance clinical practice. This is along with a fully integrated medicines management system which interfaces EPMA seamlessly with dispensing, stock control, and automation/robotics throughout the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.

About us

Working for our Trust brings a variety of benefits, including an onsite day nursery, cycle-to-work scheme, discounts at local businesses and gyms, and the opportunity to hire Trust's beach hut in Ryde. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

The Isle of Wight is a unique and stunning gem located off the South Coast of England, a short ferry journey from Portsmouth and Southampton, with journey times taking from as little as 10 minutes. London can be reached in 90 minutes by rail from Southampton or Portsmouth. The island offers an amazing coastline with beautiful countryside, year-round events, festivals and award‑winning attractions.

Job responsibilities

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to provide leadership within the pharmacy team and across the Trust in clinical areas as required. Working with internal and external stakeholders whilst accountable to the Trust Chief Pharmacist.

• Leading, co‑ordinating, delivering, and developing clinical services.
• Development of policies, procedures, guidelines, risk assessments and audits.
• Promoting a culture of medicines safety to minimise harm, optimising learning from incidents and responding to safety alerts.
• Supervising, training, and supporting the development of pharmacy staff and other health care professionals.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Master of Pharmacy (MPharm) degree or equivalent
• Current listing on the Pharmacist Register with the GPhC.
• Diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent experience.
• Completed general level framework competency training or equivalent experience.
• Significant experience of working in a pharmaceutical environment.
• Significant clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience. Significant experience of working in hospital pharmacy.
• Knowledge of national guidelines relating to medicines and pharmaceutical practice.
• Specialist knowledge and experience in clinical speciality.

Physical Skills

• Able to work at a continuous level of high concentration.
• Articulate and numerate.
• Accurate and precise.
• Honest, trustworthy, reliable and discrete.
• Clean and presentable in appearance.
• Enthusiastic and willing to learn.
• Adaptable and innovative in approach to work and projects.
• Uses initiative and open to change/use of technology and extended roles.
• Willing to participate in personal development and prepared to work outside "normal" working hours.

Abilities

• Able to record information accurately.
• Able to work as part of a team or as an individual with a flexible approach to duties. Customer care.
• Able to share learning with others.
• Able to interpret complex clinical data.
• Ability to relate well at all levels within the NHS.
• Able to negotiate with other healthcare professionals in relation to pharmaceutical care of patients
• Ability to work effectively with senior clinical personnel.

Communication Skills

• Fluent in oral and written English
• Approachable and diplomatic.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

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.

£55,690 to £62,682 a year pro rata, per annum