Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Urgent and Emergency Care and SDEC in Nottingham

We are delighted to invite applications to join the team of senior clinical pharmacists in Urgent and Emergency Care (UEC) at the Queens Medical Centre. The post holder will primarily work on the acute medicine unit and be part of the core same day emergency care (SDEC) multidisciplinary team but will also work in other areas within UEC which include ED, level 1 care area and acute medicine receiving area. The acute admissions unit is one of the largest in the country, so we have created a large clinical pharmacy team to deliver an excellent 7 day service. The post offers an outstanding opportunity to develop your portfolio of clinical knowledge and skills for the management of patients as part of the friendly, progressive and dynamic multidisciplinary team, as well as build on your leadership abilities. If not already obtained then the post holder may be supported through the independent prescribing course. Our vision is to be outstanding in health outcomes and patient & staff experience.

Main duties of the job:

• You will deliver a high standard of medicine optimisation ideally utilising your prescribing skills.
• You will work closely with the MDT, on & off the ward.
• You will have opportunities to support governance, education and medication safety.
• You will be expected to line manage one of the band 6 pharmacists, providing mentoring, and supporting them with their development and objectives.
• You will be expected to be involved in quality improvement work within acute medicine, and aim to publish your work to share your findings.
• You will be working a shift pattern over 7 days, and time off to compensate is built in to the rota ensuring a good work-life balance.

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation. Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career! We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities:

• Supporting and providing the clinical pharmacy service to the UEC directorate, and the wider Medicine Division where necessary.
• Actively participating in consultant-led ward rounds to promote and support medicines optimisation, antimicrobial stewardship and effective discharge planning.
• Involvement in education and training of a variety of healthcare professionals including diploma & pre-registration pharmacists, undergraduates and trainee advanced nurse practitioners.
• Participate in back-up senior on-call rota supporting junior pharmacists.
• Whilst this post is commissioned to be full time (equivalent of 37.5 hours per week) we would welcome applications from those wanting a better work life balance. If you would like to consider this post but on less than full time hours, please still apply and outline this on your application form or please contact us for further discussion.

Person Specification:

• Essential Qualifications: Registered with GPhC, Post-graduate diploma/MSc in clinical pharmacy or working towards this or equivalent experience, B.Pharm/BSc (Pharmacy) or MPharm.
• Desirable: Qualified as an independent prescriber, Related postgraduate qualifications.
• Experience: Broad knowledge base of clinical areas, Experience of day to day supervision and assisting in training of trainee pharmacists and/or technicians, Experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services in a hospital setting, Wide previous experience (post registration) of clinical pharmacy.
• Desirable: Experience in undertaking, supervising and reporting/presenting audit/research work at local (Trust) level, Evidence of research or project work.
• Communication & relationships: Essential ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams, Good communication skills with MDT members and own profession, Able to defend opinions in a constructive manner when challenged.
• Desirable: Teaching skills.
• Analytical and Judgement skill: Essential ability to analyse patient specific data to advise on therapy management, Able to assess and minimise the risk in medication process, Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, production issues, drug therapy decisions and patient information.
• Desirable: Medicine Information skills, Experience of analysing expenditure.
• Planning and organisation skills: Able to prioritise own work, problem solver.
• Desirable Management Skills:

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.