Advanced Clinical Pharmacist Paediatrics Surgery & Pain (XR08)

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

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to join their paediatric surgery and pain management team at Leeds Children's Hospital. The successful candidate will provide expert clinical input, lead pharmacy services, and ensure optimal medicine use for children. A Masters in Pharmacy and relevant registrations are required. The role also involves supervision of pharmacy staff and participation in service cover. Competitive compensation and professional development opportunities are offered.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Innovative work environment

Competitive compensation

Qualifications

• Masters in Pharmacy or equivalent with post-registration experience.
• Non-medical prescriber status preferred.
• Experience in handling complex clinical issues.

Responsibilities

• Lead pharmacist for paediatric surgery and pain.
• Develop guidelines for drug use within the clinical area.
• Participate in evening and weekend services.

Skills

Advanced clinical pharmacy knowledge

Negotiating and persuasive skills

Team player

Highly adaptive to changing circumstances

Education

Masters qualification in Pharmacy

Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

GPhC Registrant

Job description

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist Paediatrics Surgery & Pain (XR08)

The paediatric pharmacy team at Leeds Children’s Hospital have an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic, friendly, and forward‑thinking service as an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist for Paediatric Surgery and Pain.

This unique role spans two highly specialised areas, giving you the opportunity to lead pharmacy services across paediatric surgery and pain management. You will provide expert clinical input for children and young people undergoing surgery and for those requiring acute or chronic pain management, working closely with consultants, anaesthetists, nurses and the wider multidisciplinary team.

The General Paediatric Surgery and Urology service at Leeds offers multiple subspecialties, including neonatal, thoracic, gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary, oncology and urology surgery, alongside pioneering minimally invasive and robotic techniques. As a designated Major Trauma Centre, the service also works in close partnership with Liver, Renal and Paediatric Cardiac Teams.

This is a role where you will apply the full breadth of your clinical skills every day, from optimising medicines in complex surgical pathways to supporting innovative approaches in acute and chronic pain.

Main duties of the job

You will act as the lead pharmacist across Paediatric Surgery and Pain, providing advanced clinical input and medicines optimisation for children and young people undergoing surgery or requiring acute pain management. You will support children throughout their surgical journey, offering expert advice on complex analgesia, including multimodal pain management, opioid stewardship and safe discharge planning.

You will lead on guideline development, governance and service improvement projects to ensure the highest standards of care and the best patient experience. Education and training are integral to this role; you will deliver teaching to pharmacy, nursing and medical colleagues, building capability across the service. You will also provide clinical supervision to rotational pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and trainees, as well as contributing to the wider education of healthcare professionals.

In addition, you will contribute to audit and research activity, with opportunities to engage in regional and national specialty networks, helping to shape services and share best practice in paediatric surgery and pain management.

About us

Based within Leeds General Infirmary, in the centre of Leeds, the Leeds Children’s Hospital is one of the largest children’s hospitals in the UK and treats patients from across Yorkshire and the North of England as a secondary and tertiary referral centre.

The pharmacy department at Leeds is nationally recognised as an exemplar service. Our vision is making it easy for people to get the most from their medicines and we are continually innovating to improve our services for patients and staff.

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Job responsibilities

JOB PURPOSE: To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate highly specialised clinical pharmacy services to a clinical specialty within the Trust.

JOB DIMENSIONS: Leads the highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within a given clinical specialty. Ensures medicines are used appropriately, safely, and cost-effectively in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation. The postholder determines how outcomes are best achieved in specific circumstances. Manage other pharmacists providing specialised clinical pharmacy service within own clinical specialty depending on size of area. Works directly and regularly with consultants, senior nursing staff and managers within the clinical specialty. Monitors and interprets expenditure on medicines within own clinical specialty. Provides the Directorate with regular reports to assist in the safe use of medicines, management of the drug budget and clinical governance issues. The report also includes risk management such as the recording of significant clinical interventions and near misses.

AfC number (626).

2 Supervise, along with other members of their multidisciplinary team, the development and implementation of treatment protocols, and guidelines for use of drugs within the clinical area. Responsible for training pharmacists and other health care professionals on aspects of drug use within the clinical area. Provides minimum of at least one 4 hour session of service cover in the dispensary or aseptic dispensary each week. Participates in evening, weekend and bank holiday rota and where appropriate, out of hours services. To act as the Responsible Pharmacist in line with local procedures.

AfC number (626).

3. ORGANISATIONAL CHART

Clinical Director MMPS

Clinical Pharmacy Manager

Knowledge, skills and experience required

Masters qualification in Pharmacy (4 years) or equivalent qualification plus one year pre-registration experience. Registrant of the GPhC. Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience or qualification. Non-medical prescriber status is preferred. Substantial post-registration experience as a practising clinical pharmacist. Ability to demonstrate foundation level competencies in all 6 domains of the Advanced to Consultant Level Framework (ACLF). Experience of dealing with highly complex clinical issues which require the pharmacist to analyse information from a range of sources, which may not be in agreement, to formulate a response. The pharmacist will have developed negotiating and persuasive skills with other clinical team members, patients and relatives. Experience of dealing with a wide variety and grade of hospital staff on a regular and ongoing basis. Specialist knowledge of the clinical area/department which demonstrates ability to manage a caseload, preferably within the clinical specialty.

Person specification

Experience

• advanced clinical pharmacy knowledge in a relevant area
• understanding of local and national pharmaceutical policies
• team dynamics and effective leadership strategies

Qualifications

• GPhC Registrant
• Post Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent experience
• Non-medical prescriber

Skills & behaviours

• team player
• enthusiastic and self motivated
• able to work under own initiative
• highly adaptive to changing circumstances
• highly developed negotiating 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 CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.