Band 8a Specialist Pharmacist - Clinical Pharmacist Educator

National Health Service; Ely; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS discounts

Protected learning time

Flexible working

Job summary

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Clinical Practice Educator for Good Hope Hospital. The role splits 60% clinical leadership on wards and 40% education, leading placements for Aston University pharmacy students and supervising projects.

You’ll line-manage a team and shape hospital education and practice learning. You’ll also drive service developments, contribute to assessments, and mentor rotational pharmacists and trainees,

Qualifications

• 4 year vocational Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent).
• Post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience.
• Working towards Level I Faculty Membership with the RPS.
• GPhC registration and professional registration.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical pharmacy services on the wards and screen prescriptions.
• Manage the ward-based team and act as site lead for education.
• Oversee undergraduate placements and project supervision with Aston University.
• Teach and mentor pharmacists, technicians and trainees.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Education & training

Line management

Hospital pharmacy

Education

4 year Masters degree in pharmacy

Post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification

GPhC registration

Job description

Job summaryLove the wards but get your biggest buzz from watching someone else's clinical reasoning click into place? This role lets you do both - properly.We're recruiting a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Clinical Practice Educator to join our team at Good Hope Hospital. For 60% of your week, you'll be a lead clinical pharmacist: running the clinical service on your wards, line-managing a team and acting as the site lead for clinical practice education.The other 40% is dedicated to education. You'll be the Good Hope lead for pharmacy placements with Aston University, shaping how MPharm students experience hospital practice and inspiring the next generation of hospital pharmacists. From undergraduates to trainee and early careers pharmacists, you'll have a real say in how pharmacists are trained here.Good Hope is easy to reach from central Birmingham by public transport. If you're a confident clinician who wants education to be a defined part of your job, not something squeezed in around it, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Your week splits 60/40: clinical leadership on the wards, and planning and overseeing undergraduate placements and projects on site.

As lead pharmacist, you'll run day-to-day clinical pharmacy services on your wards - screening prescriptions, reconciling medicines, interpreting therapeutic drug levels and, once qualified, prescribing. You'll represent pharmacy to your specialty, drive service developments and line-manage pharmacists, technicians, assistants and trainees.

As Clinical Practice Educator, you'll lead practice-based placements at UHB for Aston University pharmacy students, contribute to placement-linked assessment, help design placement learning with the university and supervise final-year projects. You'll also be a line manager and educational supervisor for early careers pharmacists and mentor to rotational pharmacists.

We're looking for an experienced hospital pharmacist with a postgraduate clinical qualification (or equivalent experience), confidence teaching others and genuine enthusiasm for education.

What you'll get

• A defined education role with real influence, not a token add-on
• Leadership and line management experience in a supportive clinical team
• Protected learning time built into your working week
• Support toward non-medical prescribing (NMP), if not already qualified
• Health, wellbeing and family benefits, including NHS discounts at retailers, restaurants and leisure facilities

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Key Details

• Salary 57,528 to 64,750 a year
• Contract Permanent
• Working pattern Full-time, Flexible working
• Location Good Hope Hospital, Rectory Rd, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B75 7RR, United Kingdom
• Reference number 304-9019274

Person Specification

Qualifications

• 4 year vocational Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
• Post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience
• Working towards Level I Faculty Membership with the RPS
• Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council Experience Essential

Experience

• Significant post-registration hospital pharmacy experience
• Previous participation in multi-disciplinary team
• Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for providing high-quality pharmaceutical care
• Experience of teaching/presenting to other healthcare professionals/patients
• Commitment to own Continuing Professional Development
• Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in broad range of subjects
• Knowledge of national initiatives and guidelines, e.g. NICE, NSF
• Possesses knowledge of available resources to answer Medicines Information queries
• Able to work with drug budget information
• Demonstrates good knowledge of pharmacy clinical education and current issues
• Previous involvement in clinical trials

Additional Criteria

• Professional manner
• Well-motivated and reliable
• Able to work with all grades of staff
• Capacity to work calmly under pressure

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. Certificate of Sponsorship. Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab). UK Registration Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Good Hope Hospital
Rectory Rd
Sutton Coldfield
West Midlands
B75 7RR
United Kingdom