Employer: University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Leicester Royal Infirmary
Town: Leicester
Salary: £62,215 - £72,293 per annum / pro rata for part-time hours
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/05/2025 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 8b
Job overview
Do you enjoy making a difference to patient care?
This is an exciting opportunity to join Leicester Hospitals in a newly funded Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner Frailty role. You will work closely with key stakeholders across several clinical areas, patient safety, and primary care on both trust and system-wide initiatives. Key contacts will be our Frailty and Geriatric Medical and Pharmacy teams.
An independent prescribing qualification will be required for the role, or a commitment to work towards one. Key to this role is collaborative working and excellent communication skills, good insight into clinical governance related to frailty, and pragmatic solutions to complex problems.
We believe in investing in our team. In this role, we will support you with dedicated time to train, leadership development opportunities, independent prescribing training, and regular opportunities for innovation and improvement.
This role is an 8b Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner post and will have a bespoke job plan.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for the provision of a highly specialised pharmacy service to patients across the Trust.
Specific responsibilities include:
* Providing expertise to nursing and medical staff (within the Trust and externally) on the management of individual patients with frailty.
* Integrating with the relevant clinical teams to ensure efficient transfer of clinical and medicines management issues.
* Taking overarching responsibility for all pharmacy research and audit projects within the service.
* Overseeing training including undergraduate placements, trainee pharmacists, and diploma including independent prescribing.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered with GPhC
* Member of a professional organisation e.g. RPS, BGS or UKCPA
* Registered practicing Independent Prescriber
* Teaching qualification
* Capability to work towards a professional doctorate
Experience
* Significant experience at band 8a or equivalent in relevant specialty
* Significant experience of delivering education and training at post-graduate level
* Portfolio of evidence showing achievements in practice/specialty
* Broad knowledge on the use of medicines used within specialty
* Evidence of presentations at local, regional, national level.
* Evidence of leading guideline development and implementation
* Evidence of involvement in service developments
* Evidence of application of clinical governance skills to wider patient care
* Publications and professional presentations.
* Managerial experience and responsibility
* Evidence of working with higher education institutes and/or nationally accredited training organisations
Communications and relationship skills
* Able to provide highly complex information on issues and impart knowledge to other healthcare professionals (up to and including senior consultant level/regional level)
* Significant experience of working with patients e.g. clinics
* Ability to work as a member of a multidisciplinary team and on own
* Able to articulate personal development needs
* Excellent communication skills – written and oral
Analytical and Judgement skills
* Evidence of excellent decision making in clinical care, including data interpretation
* Able to think and solve problems strategically as well as locally, demonstrating imaginative, effective use of resources
Skills
* Demonstrate the ability to work proactively and innovatively in a highly demanding environment.
* Maintained and developed clinical leadership skills, including motivation, co-ordination, and time management
* Evidence of significant involvement in change management
* Further evidence of continued leadership development
* Credibility with other professional and non-professional staff
* Committed to high professional standards
Planning and organisation skills
* Competent in the use of IT packages such as Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
* Good knowledge of clinical information systems
* Competent to utilise medical databases and search engines to access current evidence/literature
* Competent in databases and spreadsheets
Audit and Interview
* Demonstrates ability and knowledge on how to undertake audit and feedback to clinicians
* Evidence of audits undertaken and outcomes
* Evidence of implementation of research-based practice
* Completed course/module in research methods
* Evidence of participation in research projects
* Contribution to academic programmes
* Published in peer-reviewed journals
Equality and Diversity
* Able to demonstrate a commitment and understanding of the importance of treating all individuals with dignity and respect appropriate to their individual needs.
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
* Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s Values and Behaviours
Additional Information
Please submit your application form without delay to avoid disappointment; we will close vacancies prior to the publishing closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
Please check the email account (including your junk mail) that you supplied as part of your application on a regular basis following the closing date and throughout the recruitment process, as this is how we will communicate with you.
UHL is an equal opportunities employer. We aim to employ a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds who match our job criteria.
Applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria for the job will be interviewed if you indicate you wish to be considered under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you require a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process please make the recruitment services team aware as soon as possible.
UHL is committed to helping colleagues balance the demands of both their work and personal needs through flexible working arrangements wherever reasonably practicable and subject to service needs.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
Please note if you are successful in obtaining this position and the post involves regulated activity you will be required to undertake a Disclosure & Barring Service check.
The Trust will pay for the check initially and the money will then be deducted from your salary over a three-month period commencing on your first month's payment.
University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust holds the principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion at the heart of everything it does and all that it stands for. We are committed to developing a workforce that is representative of the community we serve. We welcome applications from the diverse community of Leicester, Leicester and Rutland, to help deliver healthcare services that meet the needs of our diverse communities.
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