We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email. We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted via the email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment-related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board supports flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.
Job Overview
ABUHB is offering an exciting opportunity for passionate, motivated, forward-thinking pharmacists to advance their clinical experience and training and provide high-quality care to our patients. These posts provide the opportunity to rotate through primary care and community pharmacy whilst undertaking the HEIW Post-Registration Foundation programme with Cardiff University.
Within each rotation, you will have the ability to learn from and be supported by an in-house specialist pharmacist mentor. There is also excellent peer support available through the wider primary care and community pharmacy networks. Training is supported by an in-house programme in addition to the RPS foundation framework for pharmacists which provides an ideal platform for professional and personal development and is recognised at national level.
Our posts allow pharmacists to develop a substantive portfolio of primary care and community pharmacy experience, setting you up perfectly for ongoing career opportunities. If you thrive on a fresh challenge, benefit from collaborative working with other healthcare professionals, and want to make a difference to patients’ health in a supportive development environment, this post would most definitely suit you.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main Duties of the Job
To provide medicines management support within Primary care and Community Pharmacy settings including GP practices and to undertake a Post-Registration Foundation Programme including independent prescribing with a Higher Education Institute.
* To work as a core member of the team within the allocated setting, working effectively with other health and social care professionals delivering services to patients.
* To improve the quality and effectiveness of medicines management across a range of settings.
* To provide patient-focused, prudent healthcare.
* To promote medicines safety.
* To participate in a rotational programme (Rotations include GP practice, Community Pharmacy, and may also include rotations within Nursing homes and Complex Care, Community Resource Team, Medicines Management team).
* To supervise pharmacy technicians, pharmacy assistants, and less experienced pharmacists, foundation trainee pharmacists, and students.
This post is fixed term for 2 years to meet the needs of the service.
Working for Our Organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow, and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications, and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work-life balance, provide occupational health support, and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high-quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Qualifications and Experience
Essential Criteria
* Masters degree in Pharmacy (MPharm)
* Registered with GPhC
* Member of RPS
* Recent experience of pharmacy practice in either hospital, primary care, or community
* Experience in undertaking clinical audit
Desirable Criteria
* Experience in a primary care role working with GP practices
* Experience of delivering training sessions to varied groups
Skills
Essential Criteria
* Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification
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* Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification
Knowledge
Essential Criteria
* Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification
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* Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification
Personal Values
Essential Criteria
* Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification
Desirable Criteria
* Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification
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