Advanced Clinical Pharmacist-Rheumatology

NHS; Weston-super-Mare; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare trust as an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist in Rheumatology. This role offers the chance to work closely with multidisciplinary teams, providing specialist support and managing patient care. Ideal candidates will have a strong hospital background and excellent communication skills, along with relevant qualifications in clinical pharmacy.

Benefits

Supportive team environment

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Recent hospital experience required.
• Evidence of continuing professional development needed.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist clinical pharmacy support to Rheumatology outpatient service.
• Manage a defined patient caseload as an independent prescriber.
• Monitor drug expenditure and ensure appropriate use of high-cost therapies.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Organizational Skills

Education

Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy

Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

Job description

Go back University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist-Rheumatology

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Job summary

The post holder will work as an integral member of the multi-disciplinary team within Rheumatology at University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust to provide specialist clinical pharmacy support to the Rheumatology outpatient service.

• To provide highly specialised advice in all pharmaceutical matters.To work as an independent prescriber managing a defined patient caseload.
• To ensure that medicine use within the Rheumatology speciality is safe, effective and cost effective e.g. ensure appropriate use of Healthcare at Home supply arrangements.
• To monitor and provide comment on drug expenditure as required e.g. in relation to high-cost therapies (biologics) and the introduction of new therapeutic agents

Main duties of the job

You will have recent hospital experience, have excellent communication, influencing and problem solving skills and preferably good mentoring, teaching and assessment skills to enable you to take on this influential role within our Trust.

Why Weston?

• The team at Weston aims to deliver high quality, patient-focused clinical services to our patients.
• Our team is friendly, supportive of colleagues, open to developing and implementing new ideas.
• Weston enjoys all the benefits of a coastal location and is within 25 minutes of Bristol by train and 45 minutes by road.

About us

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge

Job responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

Knowledge & Experience

• Varied experience of working in NHS hospital pharmacy
• Experience of working in a variety of different sized teams
• Experience of communicating with and advising all healthcare professionals on drug therapy
• Experience of writing a wide range of documents including drug usage and audit reports, SOPs, protocols and guidelines and other information to healthcare professionals
• Experience of audit and project work.
• Drug expenditure analysis and reporting
• Previous experience of antibiotic stewardship
• Previous experience of working in intensive care

Skills and Abilities

• Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Innovative & creative problem identification and solving
• Self-organisational and time management
• Quality improvement techniques including clinical audit
• Good general awareness of finance such as drug expenditure trends, horizon scanning, and cost improvement targets
• Ability to plan, prioritise and organise own and others' work to meet agreed deadlines
• Ability to use judgement to challenge inappropriate prescribing and influence prescribing decisions to enable optimal therapy
• Ability to critically analyse prescriptions for clinical appropriateness, clinical risk, cost-effectiveness, adherence to local & national guidance and legality

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.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)