University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Are you looking to take the next step in your pharmacy career and develop your clinical skills?
This exciting and diverse role will allow you to develop skills in specialist areas, within a friendly supportive team at Queens Hospital Burton. The role will include training in Critical Care to enable you to support the Advanced Pharmacist - Critical Care and also provide cover on a weekly basis. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to rotate through other clinical areas at Queens hospital, with an emphasis on support to the surgical division, and the nutrition team.
You will receive training in parenteral nutrition (if needed) to enable you to attend the weekly multi-disciplinary nutrition ward round.
Your knowledge will enable you to support trainee and band 6 pharmacists and there will be the opportunity to become a mentor and potentially a trainee pharmacist tutor.
If you are not already an Independent prescriber, we will support you to complete the course.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide support and cover for the Advanced Pharmacist - Critical care, and the wider Critical Care team by regular attendance at daily ward rounds.
2. To become a member of the nutrition team, undertaking weekly multidisciplinary ward rounds and ensuring that patients are prescribed and supplied with appropriate parenteral nutrition.
3. To support the ward clinical service at Queens Hospital to ensure safe delivery of medicines across the whole hospital. Additionally, you may be asked to support the service at Samuel Johnson Hospital (SJH) in Lichfield and Sir Robert Peel hospital (SRP) in Tamworth.
4. To support the training of trainee and junior pharmacists through mentorship. There may be the opportunity, if interested to become a pre-registration tutor.
5. To support the weekend and on-call service for Queens, SJH and SRP. All pharmacists are expected to be part of this rota.
Closing date of applications: 26 September 2024
Interview date: 10 October 2024
About us
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
* Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development.
* On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
* Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes.
Job responsibilities
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Person Specification
Qualifications
* GPhC Registered Pharmacist
* Post graduate clinical Diploma
* Demonstrable experience in hospital clinical pharmacy
Human Resources
* Experience of mentoring, tutoring, managing etc. other staff
Communication
* Evidence of communication with a broad spectrum of people
* Evidence of influencing skills
* Evidence of leadership skills
Planning & Organisation
* Evidence of ability to work on own and within a team
* Evidence of ability to prioritise own workload and that of others
Experience
* Evidence of involvement in developing policies, procedures or patient information
* Evidence of audit related work and presentation
* Previous experience of working as part of an MDT
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.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Advanced pharmacist - Critical care / Surgery
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