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Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Emergency Department

On-site in Nottingham·Full-time·Added today (last checked 9 Nov)

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

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Our summary

Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 a year
About £3,660 - £4,010 a month after tax.
Work mode: On-site, Nottingham
Contract: Full-time
Closing date: Apply by Monday 16 November

Skills

The role

Job summary

Nottingham University Hospitals Pharmacy department has an exciting opportunity within our Emergency and Acute Care directorate for a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist to join our Emergency Department team.

Our ED is one of the busiest and most dynamic in the UK, acting as a major trauma centre for the East Midlands.

Our ED believes in the value of having strong Pharmacy support to deliver an expert patient-facing clinical pharmacy service and support embedding medicines optimisation within the MDT. This post will involve working alongside our established specialist ED clinical pharmacists, MMTs and MMA. It will include actively reviewing patients coming into the hospital and have a strong prescribing role. We believe this is a key role for a motivated pharmacist who wants to use their skills to develop the service we provide at the hospital front door.

You will be able to define and deliver optimal patient care with the support of the Pharmacy and wider progressive and dynamic MDT. You will be expected to act as a role model and mentor for junior pharmacists and technicians. You will work alongside clinicians, specialist nurses and ACPs to manage this exciting and quickly changing area.

Our vision is to be outstanding in health outcomes and patient & staff experience.

Main duties of the job

To lead and develop the pharmacy service to the Emergency Department alongside the other Specialist Clinical Pharmacists.

To provide clinical input (at specialist level) to the Emergency Department

To work alongside the medical team and Advanced Clinical Practitioner team in prescribing for people being cared for in the Emergency Department

Provide highly complex advice and guidance requiring analysis, interpretation and comparison of options on all issues relating to prescribing and therapeutics in the relevant specialty, where possible in line with national and local guidelines.

Maintain a working knowledge relating to prescribing and therapeutics for all services in the Medicine care group.

To form a key component of the multidisciplinary team in the Emergency Department

About us

With over 20,000 colleagues, 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.

As a pharmacy department, we are forward thinking & constantly implementing innovative ways of working to deliver the best possible patient care.

We have a strong belief in leading our teams compassionately & fostering a supportive & caring workplace

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Providing an advanced level of clinical pharmacy service to the Emergency Department

Support the Directorate Lead Pharmacist for Emergency and Acute Care (EAC) to deliver the best possible clinical pharmacy service

To line manage and support more junior pharmacists and Medicines Management Technicians in the EAC Directorate

Participate in back-up senior on-call rota supporting junior pharmacistsInvolvement in education and training of a variety of healthcare professionals including diploma & pre-registration pharmacists, undergraduates and trainee advanced nurse practitioners

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.

The pharmacy department operates a 7 day shifted working model which will include weekends and Bank Holidays

The post will be based at the Queens Medical Centre

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered with GPhC
Post-graduate diploma/MSc in clinical pharmacy or working towards this or equivalent experience
B.Pharm/BSc (Pharmacy) or MPharm
Independent prescribing qualification

Desirable

Related postgraduate qualifications
Play an active role in a relevant national network / specialist pharmacist group

Experience

Essential

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

Able 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

Essential

Able to prioritise own work, problem solver

Desirable

Management Skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).