This Advanced Pharmacist post sits in the Medicine Division of North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust, working to the Principal Pharmacist. The core is a clinical pharmacy service to one designated clinical business unit, including ward round advice, medicines policies and training for the wider team. It is cross-site, dividing time between Peterborough City Hospital and Hinchingbrooke Hospital, with scope to develop prescribing in a specialist clinic. Fit depends on GPhC registration and post-registration hospital practice.
What the job involves
- Provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to a designated CBU or speciality, ensuring medicine use is accurate, lawful, safe and effective
- Plan and allocate pharmacy work to meet service needs in the designated CBU or speciality
- Attend consultant and MDT ward rounds to give evidence-based advice on medications
- Develop and review policies, procedures and guidelines for medicine use in the designated area
- Develop and deliver training and education on medicines to pharmacy staff and the wider MDT
- Provide expert clinical and service information to the pharmacy senior management team for operational and strategic planning
- Support pharmacy business planning and the implementation of electronic clinical systems across the Trust and local care community
- Develop and deliver prescribing activities in a specialist CBU clinic
- Work across both hospitals, dividing time between Peterborough City Hospital and Hinchingbrooke Hospital
- Support the Principal Pharmacist in delivering corporate, divisional and departmental priorities
- Contribute to the modernisation of pharmacy services across the Trust
What’s required
Qualifications
- Degree or Masters in Pharmacy, with significant practice experience
- Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent postgraduate qualification relevant to hospital practice
Registration & licences
- GPhC registration as a pharmacist
Experience
- Post-registration experience of hospital pharmacy practice
- Advanced clinical competencies in designated medical specialities, with up-to-date evidence towards HEE or RPS advanced practice pillars and domains
- Delivering clinical education and training
- Line management experience
- Planning, undertaking, reviewing and implementing changes from audit systems, including clinical audit and Drug Use Review projects
Skills & knowledge
- Computer literacy in Microsoft Office and clinical pharmacy applications
- Communicating highly complex information to senior managers, professionals and patients
- Analytical and judgement skills, with organisational awareness
- Acting appropriately in distressing or emotional circumstances
Other
- Working calmly under pressure and to deadlines, with concentration despite frequent urgent interruptions
- Teamwork, reliability and adaptability
- Open, reflective, warm and respectful manner
- Enthusiasm to improve and develop
Nice to have
- Leadership or management qualification relevant to the NHS, or equivalent management qualification or experience
- Registered non-medical prescriber (support considered to train if not held)
- Credentialed for the RPS Core Advanced Pharmacist Curriculum
- Significant experience in designated medical speciality pharmacy practice
- Recent experience of operational and strategic planning
- Ability to forecast, innovate and plan long-term services
- Able to demonstrate effective management of staff
What’s offered
- Support to undertake a non-medical prescribing qualification if not already held
- Priority consideration for staff at risk within the Trust and Cambridgeshire & Peterborough ICB
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