Senior Clinical Pharmacist- Family Health

Are you a pharmacist with an interest in paediatrics and women's health? Or are you a junior pharmacist considering your next steps? If so, this post could be for you! If you'd like to be involved in shaping the exciting future of paediatric oncology/haematology in Nottingham, this is the job for you!

Main duties of the job:

• Full time role, acting as a clinical pharmacist within the Family Health Team, delivering a clinical pharmacy service to one or more nominated clinical areas (predominantly paediatric oncology) within the Family Health Division (0.8 WTE, i.e. 30 hours per week).
• The post holder will be based at both the Queen's Medical Centre Campus (QMC) and Nottingham City Hospital Campus (NCH) but will not routinely be required to travel between sites during the working day.

Job responsibilities:

• To partake in clinical pharmacy duties, ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken.
• To undertake leadership, management and Divisional/Service support roles.
• To line manage and support more junior pharmacists and support staff.
• To take full part in the 7-day shifted rota and bank holidays duties.

Person Specification:

Training & Qualifications

• Essential: B.Pharm / BSc (Pharmacy) or MPharm, GPhC registered, Diploma/MSc in clinical pharmacy or other appropriate post graduate qualification, demonstrates continued professional development.
• Desirable: Evidence of post-graduate qualifications relating to paediatric/neonatal pharmacy or teaching, Independent Prescribing Qualification, Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (MRPharmS).

Experience

• Essential: Wide previous experience (post registration) of clinical pharmacy, broad knowledge base of clinical areas, experience of day to day supervision and assisting in training of pre-registration pharmacists and/or technicians, understanding of issues affecting the NHS.
• Desirable: Evidence of project work completed, experience of working within Women's and Children's Services, experience in undertaking, and reporting/presenting audit/research work at local (Trust) level, experience and understanding of Education and Training processes.

Communication and Relationship skills

• Essential: Good interpersonal, negotiating and presentation skills, both written and verbal skills, ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams, able to demonstrate good communication skills with patients, members of the public and colleagues, able to defend opinions in a constructive manner when challenged, able to demonstrate empathy with patients, relatives and people affected by illness.
• Desirable: Teaching skills, able to demonstrate the ability to influence others and achieve desired outcomes.

Management SkillsAnalytical and Judgement skills

• Essential: Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, production issues, drug therapy decisions and patient information, able to assess and minimise the risk in medication process, able to analyse patient specific data to advise on therapy management.
• Desirable: Experience of analysing expenditure, experience of managing risk.

Planning and organisation skills

• Essential: Organised, able to prioritise own work and assist others to prioritise, positive thinker, problem solver.

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration.