Job summary
We are seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated pharmacist to join our critical care, surgery, and nutrition teams. This role involves supporting the provision of both clinical and operational pharmacy services to acutely unwell patients. This is an exciting opportunity featuring extended rotations in various specialities, including general surgery, gastrointestinal (GI) surgery, the nutrition support team, critical care, and burns. This position is designed to help you develop additional skills in preparation for progression to specialist pharmacist roles.
As a member of our clinical pharmacy team, you will collaborate closely with specialist pharmacists in intensive care medicine and gastroenterology & nutrition, as well as with consultants and ward managers. We offer the opportunity to enhance your clinical pharmacy skills in supporting acutely unwell patients, including those with complex trauma, liver, cardiac, and burns conditions, as well as transplant patients.
In your role with the nutrition support team, you will participate in ward rounds, engage in integrated pharmacist parenteral nutrition rounds, and provide education to both patients and healthcare professionals on pharmaceutical issues.
Our fully integrated electronic prescribing and patient monitoring system enables us to deliver enhanced pharmaceutical care across a wide range of specialities. This system supports our commitment to providing high-quality, patient-centred care.
Main duties of the job
1. To partake in specialised clinical pharmacy duties on the critical care units, burns and surgical wards at QEHB, ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken.
2. To develop effective working relationships, to challenge and to prioritise your own work as well of the work of the team.
3. To assist in providing a specialist pharmaceutical service to tertiary services including the provision of education and training, procedures, protocols and medicines usage information.
4. To ensure that through the provision of pharmacy services and advice to patients, carers and other healthcare professionals, there is safe and effective use of medicines.
5. To provide leadership and directorate/service support roles to the burns speciality and specialist support to the nutritional support team/surgical specialities on a rotational basis.
6. To support junior staff members within the department.
7. To take full part in clinical/dispensary rota, weekend rota and bank holiday duties.
8. To take part in the support of pharmacy out-of-hours service (first on-call duties).
9. Cross site critical care cover may be required with prior notice.
Previous experience in critical care and/or TPN is desirable but not essential as you will be supported in completing in house training. UHB prides itself on its investment in staff both in terms of developing career skills but also its commitment to staff health and wellbeing.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
* Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
* Has completed or is near completion (within the next 6 months) a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification.
* To be willing to work towards a non-medical prescribing qualification.
* Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
* 18-24 months post-registration experience within hospital pharmacy.
Experience Essential
* Post-registration work experience as a pharmacist in hospital pharmacy, covering a range of specialties, or the ability to demonstrate the equivalent level of knowledge.
* Previous participation in multi-disciplinary team.
* Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for providing high quality pharmaceutical care.
* Experience of teaching/presenting to other healthcare professionals/patients.
* Commitment to own Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
* Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in hospital pharmacy.
* Knowledge of national initiatives and guidelines, e.g. NICE, NSF.
* Possesses knowledge of available resources to answer Medicines Information queries.
* Able to work with drug budget information.
* Demonstrates good knowledge of hospital clinical pharmacy and current issues.
Additional Criteria Essential
* Professional manner.
* Well-motivated and reliable.
* Able to work with all grades of staff.
* Capacity to work calmly under pressure.
* Ability to travel across all Trust sites as required by job role.
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. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.
Employer name: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address:
Trustwide
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
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