Specialist Pharmacist

Uhmb; Lancaster (Lancaster County); On-site; USD 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is seeking a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist for a 12-month maternity cover at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. The role involves delivering high-level clinical pharmacy services, leading a team, and ensuring optimal pharmaceutical care for patients. Candidates should possess a Master's degree in Pharmacy and relevant hospital experience.

Qualifications

• Current significant experience in delivering hospital pharmacy services.
• Experience conducting medication reviews/medicines reconciliation.
• Experience of liaising with other healthcare professionals.

Responsibilities

• Provide high level clinical services to patients within the trust.
• Lead a team of junior pharmacists and medicines management technicians.
• Contribute to patient safety improvement and medicines optimisation initiatives.

Skills

Good verbal and written communication skills

Clinical knowledge of current therapeutics and practice

Analytical skills

Interpersonal skills for dealing with challenging situations

Education

Masters degree in Pharmacy

Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy

Tools

Electronic Prescribing

Microsoft Office

Job description

Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity leave cover until 19 June 2026) Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Job share

37.5 hours per week (part time may be considered) Job ref 331-L16930525

Site Royal Lancaster Infirmary Town Lancaster Salary £53,755 - £60,504 £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 03/06/2025 23:59

''Creating a great place to be cared for and a great place to work''

University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay has a firm commitment to strengthening the diversity of our workforce, and therefore welcome and encourage applications from likeminded people who can support our ambition to become effortlessly inclusive. We are particularly keen to hear from protected groups – including BAME, LGBT+ and people with a disability.

Job overview

Applications are invited from enthusiastic, well-motivated, Clinical Prescribing Pharmacists (or working towards/willing to work towards prescribing qualification) with current significant experience in delivering hospital pharmacy services, to join our Royal Lancaster infirmary team as a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist This is a 1 year maternity leave position and will involve providing high level clinical services to patients within the trust.

Dependent on experience and rota, you may be trained to provide services to critical care areas

You will have sufficient skills, knowledge and competence to support the lead pharmacist for Surgery / critical care in the development of pharmacy services within the specialities including review and development of policies and guidelines and clinical audit. You will lead a team of junior pharmacists and medicines management technicians on the wards to ensure medicines reconciliation at the point of admission is to the highest standard and pharmaceutical care throughout the patient stay is optimised, supporting timely discharge.

You must be highly motivated and able to demonstrate leadership skills and manage conflicting demands on your time. You will demonstrate excellent interpersonal and communication skills. You will contribute to patient safety improvement and medicines optimisation initiatives including ensuring the implementation of best value medicines in your area.

Main duties of the job

Core hours of work will be Monday to Friday 9:00 to 17:30 with rotational Weekend and Bank Holiday work.

On-call weekday nights are currently approximately once per month.

This post will be based at the Royal Lancaster infirmary Hospital site, however, there may be Cross Bay working when required.

Working for our organisation

We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community health care premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.

FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.

WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life-threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.

All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay visiting our website https://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/

Person specification

Education and qualifications

• Masters degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent knowledge and experience

Experience

• Experience of liaising with other healthcare professionals e.g. consultants, GPs
• Hospital experience post registration
• Experience working with complex patient groups
• Experience conducting medication reviews/medicines reconcilliation
• Experience of working on projects
• Experience of attending Multidisciplinary groups
• Experience with developing policies and procedures

Skills, ability and knowledge

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Good verbal communication and counselling skills with ill patients and relatives
• Clinical knowledge of current therapeutics and practice
• Organisation and prioritisation of clinical work
• Accuracy
• Analytical skills
• Ability to work under pressure
• Experience of using Microsoft Office
• Problem solving and risk assessment
• Interpersonal skills for dealing with challenging situations involving patients, e.g. resistance to medication change
• Experience of using Electronic Prescribing

Personal Qualities

• Team player and ability to work on own initiative
• Good interpersonal skills
• Self-motivation for career and professional development
• Commitment to Personal Development planning
• Flexible, adaptable approach
• Reliable
• Ability to comply with Trust Policies
• Ability to meet the physical and mental requirements of the post

PLEASE NOTE THAT SHORTLISTED APPLICANTS WILL BE CONTACTED BY EMAIL.

The Trust promotes flexible working opportunities where ever possible to enable staff to balance their work and home life. We are committed to Equal Opportunities and aim to be EffortlesslyInclusive .

The trust operates a No Smoking Policy.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our Person Specification will be shortlisted for Interview.

We reserve the right to close a job advert early where sufficient applications have been received.

The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert

If the post is subject to Disclosure & Barring Service checking, (formally CRB) a charge of £49.50 for Enhanced and £21.50 for Standard clearance and additional to this a £4.90 administration fee will be made to the successful candidate(s). This currently only applies to roles Band 6 and above and Medical & Dental posts.

Anyone newly appointed to the trust under the Agenda For Change contract, will be subject to the completion of a satisfactory 6 month probationary period. This will give the new staff member an opportunity to become familiar with the role and working environment.

We have introduced a new system called Pre-Onboarding, specifically to support you right the way through to your first few months in your new role with us atUHMB. This bespoke site has lots of useful information to help you settle into your new roleincluding: what to expect from the recruitment clearances process, where to get a uniform, when you'll get paid etc. As well as information on a number of our services i.e. Infection Prevention, Anti-fraud, Inclusion and Diversity, Care Certificates and much more. To access click on this linkhttps://www.uhmb.nhs.uk/uhmbt-pre-onboarding .

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.

Name Jenny Bowler Job title Deputy Chief Pharmacist Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01524 516197 Additional information

We welcome informal discussions and visits.

Jenny Bowler (Associate Chief Pharmacist: Medicines optimisation, operational and digital) ([e-mail] ) 01524 516197

or

Jenny Oakley (Lead Pharmacist Surgery and critical care) [e-mail] 01524 519433