Clinical Pharmacist

Hywel Dda University Health Board; Llanelli; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health board is seeking a motivated Clinical Pharmacist to join a caring team in Llanelli. This role offers opportunities for career development within a nurturing environment, involving essential responsibilities and support for achieving a prescribing qualification, while ensuring quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Newly qualified or looking for a career change.
• Willing to undertake prescribing qualification.
• Passionate about improving care.

Responsibilities

• Undertake a rotational clinical pharmacist role working closely with pharmacy colleagues and the multidisciplinary team.
• Develop consultation skills and clinical expertise.
• Responsible pharmacist duties including emergency duty commitment.

Job description

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Job Overview

Are you newly qualified or looking for a career change? Does the prospect of developing and learning in a variety of clinical specialties appeal to you?

Job Overview

Are you newly qualified or looking for a career change? Does the prospect of developing and learning in a variety of clinical specialties appeal to you?

We are looking for a motivated individual who is passionate about improving care and share our health board values to join our small caring team of pharmacists. Prince Philip hospital is conveniently located along the M4 corridor and covers a wide range of medical specialities and elective surgery.

You will be joining a team of experienced pharmacists and technicians and will be supported within a nurturing working environment to develop your career and undertake the prescribing qualification. You will be part of the exciting role out of EPMA supporting colleagues across the MDT as we embed digital systems within our practice. You will be supported to undertake your prescribing qualification and work closely within your chosen speciality to develop your consultation skills and clinical expertise.

You will be expected to undertake the role of responsible pharmacist and will be expected to undertake Emergency Duty Commitment (on-call), work weekends and Bank holidays as part of a rota.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will undertake a rotational clinical pharmacist role working closely with pharmacy colleagues and the wider multidisciplinary team.

Our small and friendly team will support you to develop your practice in a wide range of clinical areas. The majority of our pharmacist who completed foundation training progress within the department and health board and continue to prescribe and develop their role in their chosen speciality.

The post includes formal development opportunities from the structured HEIW Post-registration Foundation Training Programme. This qualifications provides the foundation for excellent career development and a platform for professional and personal development. To meet the criteria for the HEIW post-Foundation training programme you must be qualifying in July 2025 or have registered with the GPhC after July 2024.

This is a fixed term/secondment post until 31/08/2027 due to funding.

If you are a Hywel Dda University Health Board employee and are applying for this post as a secondment, agreement for the secondment is needed from your current manager prior to application.

Working for our organisation

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 11,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:

Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;

Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;

48 general practices (four of which are managed practices), 47 dental practices (including three orthodontic), 99 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres;

Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services;

Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.

Hywel Dda University Health Board operates a bilingual policy. All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.

IMPORTANT NOTE FOR APPLICANTS: Applications for our roles are carefully reviewed and shortlisted based on specific criteria, which varies from job to job. Using a generic application to apply for multiple roles or relying on automated AI application services, such as Lazy Apply or AI Apply, may not provide the necessary information, leading to your application being overlooked. To ensure your application is given full consideration, we recommend submitting a tailored application that directly addresses the criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the advert.

By submitting your application to NHS Jobs/Trac, you are giving your consent for elements of your application data to be transferred to the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and other secure, internal NHS Workforce systems in order to support and manage your recruitment and employment within your employing organisation; to be used by Recruitment for purposes of checking your Professional Registration online (where applicable).

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If you are successfully appointed, by completing the application form you authorise the UHB to obtain any previous NHS service details including all electronically held sickness information, via the Inter Authority Transfer process on the national Electronic Staff Record (ESR).

To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa , unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK . If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.

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