Advanced Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - London, United Kingdom - Wales Medicines Strategy Group

Description

Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time hours per week (Evening and weekend working with A4C enhancements and TOIL) Job ref 214-CSTO

Employer Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site King's Mill Hospital Town Sutton-In-Ashfield Salary £50,952 - £57,349 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 21/05/2024 23:59

Advanced Specialist Clinical Pharmacist – Antimicrobial Therapy NHS AfC: Band 8a

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

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Job overview

We are looking to recruit a confident, enthusiastic, highly motivated and experienced clinical pharmacist with excellent communication skills and a keen interest in the safe, rational and cost-effective prescribing of antimicrobials.

This is an excellent opportunity to utilise and further develop skills in a high profile role supporting the organisation in achieving positive patient outcomes related to infections and to meet local, regional and national antimicrobial prescribing targets.

Main duties of the job

This role requires a pharmacist who can take responsibility and accountability for the development and monitoring of antimicrobial prescribing practice within the trust. This will include development of guidelines, auditing clinical practice, monitoring antimicrobial usage and expenditure, training staff and identifying improvements to support antimicrobial stewardship.

With a postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy, or equivalent transferrable experience, you will have highly developed pharmacy skills and a proven track record of operation at a senior level, particularly in relation to influencing prescribing and facilitating change.

Working for our organisation

Thank you for your interest in this role.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and we are the Health Service Journal's Trust of the Year in 2020.

The Care Quality Commission rated King's Mill Hospital Outstanding and Newark, and Mansfield Community Hospitals Good. Overall we are rated Outstanding for care.

For the last three years, we have been ranked as the best NHS Trust to work for in the Midlands and in 2020 we were the third best Acute/Community NHS Trust in England.

Happy colleagues deliver better care. Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To see the full detailed job description and main responsibilities of the job please refer the job description attached

Person specification Knowledge

• Pharmacy knowledge associated with a Pharmacy degree course.
• Experience gained through pre-registration training.
• Experience gained through vocational practice.
• Experience of teaching pharmaceutical knowledge to other pharmacy staff.
• Experience of staff supervision/management.

Qualifications

• BSc, B.Pharm or MPharm in Pharmacy.
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Diploma in clinical pharmacy gained through postgraduate study or equivalent experience
• Specialist post-graduate qualification or evidence of specialist post-graduate studies, particularly in the field of antimicrobial drug therapy.
• Evidence of commitment to CPD.
• Qualified independent prescriber

Further Training

• Experience of drug usage evaluation, financial reporting and critical appraisal.
• Practice research.

Experience

• Recent experience of hospital pharmacy with time spent in a specialist pharmacist role.
• Pharmacy knowledge (clinical and operational) from aspects of career to date.
• Well-developed time management and organisational skills.
• Strong written and oral communicator and presenter, with experience of negotiation and persuasion.
• Experience of developing and using electronic databases.
• Experience of working with a variety of different professional groups e.g. multi-disciplinary team working
• Evidence-based practice.
• Experience of providing drug usage reports and feedback of information to clinicians within a specialty.
• Experience of delivering education.
• Experience of extended roles.
• Experience of implementing change

Contractual Requirements

• Flexibility.
• Able to work extended hours and On-Call.

If you would like this information in an alternative format or in a different language please contact us on ext 3271.

Please note that we no longer accept handwritten/paper applications and that the email address given on your application will be used for all correspondence regarding this post.

We reserve the right to close a vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications have been received. Priority for vacancies at the Trust will be given to existing employees of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust whose roles are currently at risk of redundancy due to organisational change.

Only applications received on or before the closing date will be considered for short listing. This is to ensure that the Trust meets its commitment to Equality of Opportunity.

In submitting an application, you authorise Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any current and previous NHS Service details and you agree to the Trust obtaining and transferring personal date held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be shared using the NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) and third party systems via an automated process and will only be used for the purposes of maintaining your employment record.

Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check. The Trust will pay for the check initially and the money will then be invoiced to you once you've commenced employment. The current price of a check is £40 plus VAT for an enhanced and £23 plus VAT for a standard check. If you are asked to complete a DBS check and have a previous identity that you do not wish to be disclosed to your employer and/or on your DBS certificate, you should call or email the dedicated sensitive applications team before submitting your application. The team is experienced in dealing with sensitive cases and will advise you of the process and what you need to do.

Proposed for us: Covid-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, family, colleagues and our patients/service users from the Covid-19 virus. Whilst Covid-19 vaccination is not a condition of employment at this present time unless you work in a Care Home facility, we continue to encourage our current and potential colleagues to get vaccinated. There is helpful advice and information about the Covid-19 vaccination and how to access it at:

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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.

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