Advanced Pharmacist - Primary Care - Tywi/Taf Cluster

Tywi/Taf cluster is seeking an enthusiastic and forward-thinking Advanced Pharmacist to help deliver high-quality, patient-centred care. This is an exciting opportunity for a motivated individual, who thrives in a collaborative environment and is passionate about medicines optimisation and improving patient outcomes. As an Advanced Pharmacist, you will play a key role in supporting the coordination and delivery of clinical services within the cluster. Working as part of the multidisciplinary team, you will utilise your independent prescribing skills, provide expert medicines advice, and support safe and effective prescribing practices. You will also assist with service evaluation and improvement initiatives, and provide mentorship to colleagues where appropriate. Your work will focus on implementing medicines optimisation strategies, reducing unwarranted variation, and ensuring high standards of patient safety and care. To succeed in this dynamic role, you will need to be adaptable, proactive, and responsive to service needs. Strong communication skills, clinical expertise, and a commitment to innovation and collaborative working are essential.

Main duties of the job

• Provide expert clinical and professional pharmacy services to patients in primary care, demonstrating high levels of expertise and skills across the four pillars of advanced practice.
• Apply in-depth knowledge and skills, whilst providing clinical services to individual patients or patient groups requiring complex care.
• Provide highly specialist advice and guidance to members of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) within primary care and across the interface with secondary care.
• Work collaboratively with others using negotiating skills to progress changes in prescribing patterns, which may be contentious and to overcome resistance to change in delivering cost effective and value-based solutions.
• Monitor prescribing activity and expenditure within area of responsibility, contributing to budget management and financial stewardship.
• Support improvements in cost-effective and prudent use of medicines, utilising and analysing data, ensuring patient centred holistic care and management of clinical condition.
• Support the development of education and training provision, to support the growth of others and advance practice.
• Evaluate and identify personal learning needs, creating a tailored development plan to enhance clinical skills and knowledge to expand scope of practice, while also fostering leadership abilities and the capacity to mentor others.

About us

Hywel Dda University Health Board plans and provides NHS healthcare services for people living in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, and bordering counties. We have over 13,000 staff and together we provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services. We work in partnership with the three local authorities, as well as public, private and third sector colleagues, including our valued team of volunteers.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply. The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences. In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirements specified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.

Person Specification

• Master's degree in Pharmacy.
• Registered Pharmacist with GPhC.
• Post-graduate diploma/MSc in clinical pharmacy or equivalent qualification or experience.
• Designated Prescribing Practitioner (DPP).
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).
• Specialist knowledge of medicines management systems and processes in an integrated NHS.
• Relevant clinical experience and knowledge.
• Demonstrate specialist knowledge in more than one field preferably in primary care.
• Flexible approach to needs of the service to undertake on call, weekend and evening working.
• Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.