Specialist Pharmacist - Teacher Practitioner Aston University
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
1. People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
2. Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
3. Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
Due to promotion of the existing postholder, an exciting opportunity has arisen to take on a Teacher Practitioner role within the Pharmacy team at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust and Aston University School of Pharmacy. This post is ideal for someone with an interest in teaching, whilst retaining their clinical skills and knowledge. The postholder would take an honorary clinical teaching fellow position at the university and lead on the SWB undergraduate placement programme. The post is 50% based at Aston University and 50% based at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust in a clinical setting.
Main duties of the job
You will lead on the development and delivery of teaching for undergraduate students, both in a hospital and university setting, to ensure that placements and other courses are delivered to the appropriate syllabuses and standards, supporting practical application of theoretical clinical knowledge.
You will also be part of the pharmacy department training team, to support the training and education programme for all clinical staff across the Trust.
You will also be expected to support clinical pharmacy services within the Trust on a sessional basis and act as a role model, with associated senior pharmacist duties within the department.
Working for our organisation
We are a progressive department and are keen to embrace innovative digital ideas. Following significant investment, our pharmacy department has led on innovations in automated drug storage and administration at our brand new hospital. Robotic dispensing is well established and we have a full Electronic Patient Record, including Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration throughout the Trust.
We have recently moved our inpatient pharmacy services to the brand new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital and are implementing plans to provide a seven day service to the Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the role and criteria required.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Post-graduate clinical diploma or equivalent
* Pharmacist registered with GPhC
* Educated to degree level or equivalent
* Post-graduate level qualification in teaching and education
Experience
* Experience as a clinical pharmacist in a hospital NHS Trust
* Proven experience of delivery of teaching in a clinical environment
* Proven experience of delivery of teaching/presentations in a classroom/academic environment
* Experience of working with undergraduate pharmacy students
* Previous experience of working within an academic setting
* Experience in publishing in the pharmacy practice research field
Knowledge
* Knowledge of application of IT in teaching and clinical situations
* Understanding of current legislation as applies to pharmacy practice
Skills
* Ability to manage individuals within a team e.g. recruitment, development, appraisal
* Ability to address staff performance issues
* Ability to interpret and present complex information
* Ability to communicate to a range of individuals
As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Emily Horwill
Job title: Deputy Chief Pharmacist
Email address: emily.horwill@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07930454665
Additional information: For a further discussion about the role, please contact either Emily Horwill - emily.horwill@nhs.net or Michelle Elston - m.elston@aston.ac.uk
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