We are very excited to offer a new rotational programme at a more senior level to you and our pharmacists at NGH in medicine through cardiology, respiratory, stroke, gastroenterology, and admissions.
This will enable you to continue your development and increase your skills and knowledge across a wider portfolio with the opportunity to specialise.
Main duties of the job
1. To work within a clinical medical specialty for 6 months at a time, building relations with other staff to ensure safe and effective medicines optimisation for patients.
2. To actively participate in ward rounds and fully integrate within the speciality multidisciplinary team.
3. If available within the speciality, to work in pharmacy led clinics.
4. To undertake projects or developments within the speciality, e.g., Quality Improvements, Audits, Research.
5. To develop guidelines and PGD developments within the speciality.
6. To carry out root cause analysis of medicine-related incidents which have occurred within the speciality and attend or present at governance meetings.
7. To undertake training of pharmacy and other healthcare professionals within the speciality.
About us
Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values
* Compassion
* Accountability
* Respect
* Integrity
* Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.
The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled, and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals.
Job responsibilities
1. To work with the Pharmacy Clinical Team to provide a comprehensive Pharmacy Service within a designated clinical area, specialities including: Medicine Admissions, ED, Renal, Cardiology, Respiratory, Gastroenterology, amongst others.
2. Providing a Clinical and Specialist Pharmacist role.
3. Training of pharmacy staff and the wider multidisciplinary team.
4. Service development including Quality Improvement projects, preparation of guidelines.
Person Specification
Skills
* Ability to prioritise.
* Ability to delegate.
* Ability to work under pressure.
* Ability to work alone and as a team member.
* Time management.
Knowledge and Experience
* Post-registration clinical pharmacy experience within hospital, PCN, community including at least four of the following specialties: Medicine (or medical specialties), Care of the Older Person, Surgery (or surgical specialties), Paediatrics, Medicines Information, Oncology/Haematology, Aseptics (this would normally be achieved over at least a 2-3 year period).
* Good clinical knowledge.
* Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
* Teaching, supervising, and training staff.
* Undertaken service improvement/quality improvement projects/audits/research projects.
* Experience of prescribing within a speciality to optimise medicines for specific patient groups.
Educations, Training and Qualifications
* BPharm or MPharm degree.
* Member of General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Achieved (or working towards) postgraduate clinical qualification (or equivalent knowledge/experience).
* Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
* Practice Certificate in Independent Prescribing.
* Member of UKCPA, PCPA, BOPA or other relevant specialist body.
Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
* Passionate and committed to bringing our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality, diversity, and inclusion of our staff, patients, and service users.
* Both full-time and part-time candidates should have the ability to work shifts that will cover 7 days of the week as the NHS moves towards 7-day service provision.
* Confidence.
* Willingness to learn and develop personally.
* Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines where there are competing demands.
* Proactive and solution-focused.
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.
Principal Pharmacist, Medicine and Urgent Care
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