Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Acute Medicine

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Job summary

Join a leading healthcare trust as a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist in Acute Medicine. This role entails working closely with multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe and effective medication use while promoting cost-effective resource management. Experience in acute medicine and a Post Graduate Clinical Diploma are essential for this role aimed at enhancing patient outcomes.

Benefits

Development opportunities

Employee assistance programme

Discounted gym membership

Onsite fitness classes

Car schemes

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience in hospital clinical pharmacy.
• Previous experience working within acute medicine.
• Evidence of audit related work and presentation.

Responsibilities

• Provide appropriate medicine prescribing and monitoring advice to the MDT.
• Attend ward rounds on the acute medicine wards.
• Deliver educational sessions to junior Pharmacists.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Ability to work independently

Ability to prioritise workload

Influencing skills

Education

Post Graduate Clinical Diploma

Job description

Employer University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Derby Hospital Town Derby Salary £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata pa Salary period Yearly Closing 03/07/2025 23:59 Interview date 17/07/2025

Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Acute Medicine

Band 7

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

With over 13,000 members of staff you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day! Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity.

As a Trust we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.

The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it’s important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.

Armed Forces and Disability Confident guaranteed interview scheme

To further support the pledges in the Armed Forces Covenant and to make a positive contribution to support ex-armed forces personnel (veterans) make the transition to civilian life, the Trust has introduced a Guaranteed Interview Scheme for veterans who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification, to help them overcome barriers to find civilian employment. The scheme will operate for all external recruitment.

The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer and committed to both employing and retaining people with disabilities. This commitment is to guarantee an interview for any candidate that has disclosed a disability under the Equality Act 2010 and who meets the essential criteria set out in the person specification. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.

If you require support/adjustments with your application please contact the recruitment team on 01332 788466

Join us and help make a real difference to our Trust.

Here’s more about the role and what we’re looking for;

Job overview

Have you always had an interest in acute medicine and wish to pursue a career in this ever-growing area, whilst working in a pharmacy department that supports personal and professional development alongside flexible working options?

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton (UHDB) is the place to take the next step in your career path by providing great opportunities for flexible working and good career development. If this sounds exciting, why don’t you come and join our well-established, friendly and dynamic acute medicine team at UHDB?

Work closely with clinicians and nursing colleagues to promote safe and effective use of medicines on the wards, whilst ensuring cost-effective use of resources.

Main duties of the job

• Provide appropriate medicine prescribing and monitoring advice to members of the MDT.
• Attend ward rounds on the acute medicine wards.
• Be a part of a collaborative MDT by working with the doctors, nurses, advanced clinical practitioners, antimicrobial and OPAT team, diabetes nurses, asthma nurses, alongside the core medical team.
• Active involvement in the development and review of policies and procedures within acute medicine.
• Assist the Advanced Pharmacists to manage the introduction of new drugs and treatment guidelines into the division.
• Assist with the management of errors, complaints and incidents in the managed section in accordance with the Trust Risk Management and Complaints Policies.
• Assist the Advanced Pharmacists in preparing financial reports and ensures that drug usage and expenditure is monitored and regularly reported to Divisional management team.
• Deliver educational sessions to junior Pharmacists, Doctors, Nurses and trainee Pharmacists.
• Opportunities for participation in quality improvement projects inacute medicine.
• Help to support and develop rotational junior and trainee pharmacists.
• You will be given the opportunity to undertake independent prescribing. This is fully funded by the Trust, and you will be supported to attend study days and complete prescribing practice hours.

Closing date: 03 July 2025

Interview date: 17 July 2025

Working for our organisation

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, including both professional and leadership development
• On-going support through every step of the way from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• A variety of other staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts about our Trust:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments per day.
• We are the 4 th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and Person Specification. To apply please click APPLY FOR THIS JOB – this link will take you to the TRAC Recruitment Site. You will need to register if you do not already have an account.

• Demonstrable experience in hospital clinical pharmacy
• Post Graduate Clinical Diploma

Skills

• Evidence of communication with a broad spectrum of people
• Evidence of influencing skills
• Evidence of ability to work on own and within a team
• Evidence of ability to prioritise own workload and that of others
• Evidence of leadership skills

Experience

• Previous experience working within acute medicine
• Evidence of involvement in developing policies, procedures or patient information
• Evidence of audit related work and presentation
• Experience of mentoring, tutoring and managing other staff

Our Trust aims to provide the highest quality care to patients within Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire and we want the very best people to work with us.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

If we receive a high number of applications for this position we reserve the right to withdraw the post before the closing date, therefore it is advisable that you apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

At UHDB , we offer different ways to work flexibly to each and every one of our colleagues, many of whom already work flexibly at all sites of the Trust.

For our roles we are open to discussing the possibility of part-time/ reduced hours/ compressed hours/ flexible start and finish times/ fixed/flexible shifts/annualised hours/ term time hours/ hybrid working – working partly in the trust/partly at home.

Why don’t you talk to us at interview about the flexibility you would like to explore and what it means to you, and we will discuss what’s possible for the job and team, and the opportunities we might be able to create together.

We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to work with you to look at all the available options.

Most of our posts are subject to a DBS check, however having a criminal record will not necessarily bar you from obtaining a position. Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

All correspondence relating to your application will be sent to you via our trac.system account. Please ensure that you regularly check your emails; this includes junk/spam, as your security settings may not recognise the sender.

Anyone from outside of the UK (excluding from the Republic of Ireland) will need permission from UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) to work in the UK and may also need entry clearance before travelling here.

UKVI is responsible for managing migration. To obtain a visa or entry clearance, you will need to meet certain requirements and demonstrate you have the right the work in the UK via:

• the points-based immigration system
• the EU settlement scheme
• eVisa

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

If we receive a high number of applications for this position we reserve the right to withdraw the post before the closing date, therefore it is advisable that you apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment. Please ensure that you had read the Job Description and Person Spec and that you meet the criteria before applying.

Name Manzar Maqsood Job title Advanced Pharmacist - Specialist Medicine Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01332 789018