Main area: Clinical Pharmacy, Stroke & Anticoagulation
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours:
* Full time
* Part time
* Flexible working
Job ref: 164-6849066
Employer: Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Queens Medical Centre
Town: Nottingham
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/02/2025 23:59
Job overview
As the Senior Pharmacist – Anticoagulation/Stroke, you will work across both the anticoagulation and stroke services at Nottingham University Hospitals. You will join the pharmacy stroke team, working alongside the Specialist Pharmacists for Stroke and Chief Pharmacy Technician – Stroke to provide a consistent, high-level pharmacy service to the Stroke inpatient wards.
Within the anticoagulation service, you will work with the Specialist Pharmacist – Anticoagulation and the anticoagulation nurses and clinicians to support patients on anticoagulation therapy.
This role offers the opportunity to engage in quality improvement, monitoring medication incidents, governance, and education and training for both qualified staff and student members.
The role is based at Queens Medical Centre, but you may be required to work at the City Hospital campus or other wards within the integrated care directorate as per service needs.
Main duties of the job
* To partake in clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken in the Integrated Care Directorate wards and the anticoagulation service
* Leadership, management, and divisional/service support roles
* To line manage and support more junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians
* To take full part in the 7-day shifted rota and bank holiday duties
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
* B.Pharm / BSc (Pharmacy) or MPharm
* GPhC registered
* Diploma/MSc in clinical pharmacy or other appropriate postgraduate qualification
* Independent Prescribing Qualification, or willing to complete within 12 months
* Training in or experience of prescribing in anticoagulation use and dosing
Experience
* Wide previous experience (post-registration) in hospital pharmacy
* Broad knowledge base of clinical areas
* Experience of day-to-day supervision and assisting in training of pre-registration pharmacists and/or technicians
* Understanding of issues affecting the NHS
* Evidence of project work completed
* Experience of working within stroke or anticoagulation specialities
* Experience of working in outpatient clinics
* Experience in undertaking and reporting/presenting audit/research work at local (Trust) level
* Experience working with patients with speech and swallowing difficulties
Communication and Relationship Skills
* Good interpersonal, negotiating, and presentation skills, both written and verbal
* Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams
* Good communication skills with multidisciplinary team members
* Able to defend opinions in a constructive manner when challenged
* Empathy with patients, relatives, and pharmacy customers
* Excellent communication skills with patients and carers
* Teaching skills
Analytical and Judgement Skills
* Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, production issues, drug therapy decisions, and patient information
* Able to assess and minimise the risk in medication processes
* Able to analyse patient-specific data to advise on therapy management
* Experience of analysing expenditure
Planning and Organisation Skills
* Organised, able to prioritise own work and assist others to prioritise
* Positive thinker
Physical Skills
* Competent ICT skills, word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, databases, retrieval of information from the internet
Other requirements
* Self-motivated, conscientious, confident, accurate, assertive
* Ability to work alone and make decisions including when participating in senior on-call rota
* Weekend and shift working as per job description
* Must have the ability to wear appropriate PPE required for the role
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
* Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust’s “We are here for you” behavioural standards
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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team to deliver world-class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.
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