Main area: Clinical Support
Grade Band: 8a
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (12 months maternity cover)
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
* Home or remote working
37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 188-CL151224
Site: Southampton General Hospital
Town: Southampton
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 per annum (PA) Pro rata
Closing: 02/01/2025 23:59
Interview date: 09/01/2025
Job overview
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for a detailed job description for the role.
Main duties of the job
The Southampton Medicines Advice Service at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) is offering a fantastic opportunity for a friendly and enthusiastic pharmacist to cover maternity leave in our team.
You’re looking for an opportunity that offers variety and a good career move. Something rewarding that will help you use all your pharmacist’s skills to make a difference: patient care, teaching, clinical problem-solving, and teamwork.
For an overview of the main duties of the role, please see the ‘Job Description and Main Responsibilities’ section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail, please read the full job description document attached.
Working for our organisation
As one of the largest acute teaching Trusts in England, we offer learning and development opportunities to help you achieve the career you aspire to.
All non-clinical roles may involve a mixture of on-site and remote working. Specific details and flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process. UHS employees are able to access a range of NHS discounts, are entitled to a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme.
Specific to this role is the suitability for agile working, which is a mixture of on-site and remote working. In addition, we are open to discussing flexibility in the hours that you work. Please talk to us at the interview about the flexibility you need, and we will explore what’s possible for the role and service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are offering you intellectually rewarding responsibilities and valuable career experience as part of the Medicines Advice team. You’ll provide a clinically-focused service, advising doctors, nurses, and pharmacists in primary and secondary care on how to treat their patients safely and effectively. We also operate a busy patient helpline, allowing you to regularly advise our Trust’s patients about their medicines.
The teaching experience we offer is varied and a vital part of the role. You will be tutoring band 6 pharmacists on how to solve clinical problems and assessing and supporting band 7 clinical pharmacists to achieve ward-based competence.
We are looking for a pharmacist with an understanding of how medicines are used in practice, the problems they can cause, and how to overcome them. You need to be able to teach these skills and knowledge to others. Relevant experience and a commitment to what we are doing are essential. A background in medicines information and clinical pharmacy is required.
Person specification
Trust Values
* Patients First
* Always Improving
* Working Together
Qualifications, knowledge and experience
* Master’s degree in pharmacy or equivalent.
* Registered with General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experience.
* Can demonstrate Advanced Stage 1 competencies in the RPS Advanced Pharmacy Framework or equivalent.
* Post-registration experience of clinical pharmacy and medicines information relevant to this role.
* Experience of project management, planning, and implementing developments.
* Some teaching experience and assessment of others.
* Advanced Microsoft Office skills.
Skills and competencies
* Communication
* Organisational skills
* Interpersonal skills
Please be advised that this vacancy may close earlier than stated if we receive a large number of applications. We will not accept any applications or queries via agencies, under any circumstances.
Our commitment to equality
Equality remains at the centre of our policymaking, service delivery, and employment practice, giving all employees equal opportunity to develop, apply for promotions, and have working arrangements that enable them to achieve a manageable work-life balance.
UHS actively promotes a work environment free from harassment and discrimination and provides training for managers and staff to ensure this happens. We also closely monitor recruitment activity, training, development, and employment practices to ensure equality of practice with regard to race, colour, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, gender, sexual orientation, disability, marital status, and age.
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