Advanced Pharmacy Practitioner - Nottingham, United Kingdom - Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Nottingham, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Description

Band 8b

Main area

Pharmacy

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Grade

Band 8b

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Contract

Permanent

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Hours

Part time 7.5 hours per week

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Site

Cross Campus at NUH

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Town

Nottingham

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Salary
- £56,164 - £65,262 pro rata per annum
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Salary period

Yearly

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Today at 23:59Job overview

This new role within the Pharmacy Department at Nottingham University Hospitals will provide clinical leadership within HIV services at NUH.

The role will include a strong component of working as a key part of the multidisciplinary team and with your consultant colleagues to ensure prescribing is safe and effective and focused on patient outcomes.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the below summary you need to familiarize yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

In this role you will

Prescribe antiretroviral medicines in our clinic

Review and manage processes around prescribing including working with the colleagues and homecare team

Directly support the Consultants with medicines use including medicines safety, governance, drugs and therapeutics submissions and guideline writing

Form an integral part of the HIV MDT

Working for our organisation

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the UK's largest and busiest acute teaching hospital Trusts.

We have achieved a national and international reputation for many of our specialist services including stroke, renal, neurosciences, cancer services and trauma and are at the forefront of many research programmes.

The pharmacy department at NUH is forward thinking and constantly implementing innovative ways of working to deliver the best possible patient care.

We continue to extend the ideal model of delivering medicines optimisation and pharmaceutical care where pharmacists are fully integrated into the medical teams, supported by a team of medicines management technicians and assistants.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To provide an expert level patient-facing clinical service to a defined caseload of patients with the aim of initiating, prescribing and monitoring antiretroviral therapy and standardising medicines management in HIV

To lead the team of clinical pharmacists and technicians providing the clinical pharmacy service to the HIV unit

To strategically develop and lead the provision of expert clinical practice - promoting safe and evidenced-based practice and contributing to improved clinical outcomes and services to patients in line with the Health Education England multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice

To be a Trustwide opinion leader for pharmaceutical matters relating to HIV; including providing professional leadership and support to clinical pharmacists

To lead, plan and undertake clinical audit and research within the HIV Speciality

To contribute to service development within the HIV service, Medicines Optimisation and the Pharmacy Department

To be a senior member of the clinical pharmacy team

To provide specialist training and education on medication related topics to the multi-disciplinary team

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria

B.Pharm / BSc (Pharmacy) or MPharm
Diploma in clinical pharmacy or demonstrable equivalent experience
Qualified Independent Prescriber and evidence of prescribing in practice

Desirable criteria

Leadership management qualifications
Releveant postgraduate qualification (MSc or higher in clinical pharmacy or relevant clinical science)
Evidence of advanced clinical pharmacy practice/credentialling

Professional registrations

Essential criteria

GPhC registered
Member of relevant national specialist pharmacist group

Desirable criteria

Plays an active role in a relevant national network / specialist pharmacist group
Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (MRPharmS)

Experience

Essential criteria

Broad knowledge base of a wide range of clinical areas
Extensive previous hospital experience (postregistration)
Extensive experience in HIV/ID
Experience in project management (including departmentwide roles) and evidence of completed outcomes
Effective liaison with relevant Trust level committees / groups
Experience of training and education of both pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals
Experience of MDT working

Desirable criteria

Experience of leading and delivering clinical pharmacy services to a speciality/cluster
Evidence of published research
Experience as a line manager/mentor
Recent experience prescribing in inflammatory bowel disease

Communication and relationship

Essential criteria

Proven ability to influence and negotiate with relevant senior clinicians, managers and stakeholders.
Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills, both verbal and written must be able to communicate highly complex drug or medicine related information to prescribers, clinician