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* Are you an experienced pharmacist looking for a challenge in a new working environment, to broaden your clinical experience?
* Would you like to be part of a dedicated team committed to providing the best patient care?
* Are you looking for a full-time role as a clinical pharmacist?
* Are you a band 6 pharmacist who has or is about to complete their clinical diploma?
* Or a band 6 pharmacist currently undertaking a clinical diploma, looking to gain experience in a different NHS setting?
If the answer is ‘Yes’, then we may have the job for you.
Summary:
Due to staff progression, an opportunity has arisen for a clinical pharmacist role in our patient-focused pharmacy service.
This position is based at Moseley Hall Hospital, with full-time hours available. There are a variety of clinical specialisms covered including Elderly Care, Neurology, and Stroke rehabilitation.
As a clinical pharmacist, you will specialise in one of these clinical areas, joining our team of pharmacists and technicians providing medicines optimisation support and advice to our adult inpatient wards.
You will have the opportunity to experience a variety of areas and continue to challenge yourself to grow as a pharmacist.
Our team endeavours to provide a comprehensive, efficient, and safe pharmacy service to all clinical areas. This is to ensure we are consistently contributing to quality improvements in both prescribing and overall patient care.
Main duties of the job
About you:
We are looking for a friendly, dedicated, and motivated clinical pharmacist to join our expanding team.
Working alongside clinical colleagues, you will be integrated into the ward teams, attending multidisciplinary meetings and consultant ward rounds to support the pharmaceutical needs of patients under your care.
You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, in addition to being able to organise your workload to prioritise your time. You will also have the ability to work under pressure while ensuring that all patients experience our Trust values while in our care.
Previous experience in any of the clinical areas listed is desirable, where you will be the nominated lead pharmacist for this specialism.
The ideal candidate will have experience in pro-actively influencing prescribing within a hospital environment and have attained or have completed at least 1 year of a postgraduate clinical diploma.
An on-call commitment is part of the role.
For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description and Person specification document.
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Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics, and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre, and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The location:
Moseley Hall Hospital is a community hospital within Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust. We offer sub-acute care with admissions coming via the local acute and specialist NHS trusts or direct from the community. A core part of our role is rehabilitation to enable patients to transfer home or to an appropriate care setting, on clinically appropriate medication.
At Moseley Hall Hospital, our sub-acute elderly care patient cohort is currently held across 3 of our wards. We also have a specialist stroke ward and an Inpatient Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (INRU) which provides brain injury rehabilitation services for both inpatients and outpatients.
About us:
We are a small, friendly, forward-thinking team that is currently developing our pharmacy service. Current projects include the introduction of EPMA across the Trust.
Patient experience and safety is at the centre of everything we do. Support, mentoring, and further training will be provided to the successful candidates, to ensure that you fulfil your potential in this new challenging role. You will be actively encouraged to contribute to service development and quality improvement. This role will provide the opportunity to develop leadership and managerial skills. All team members are allocated development time each week.
We also have the advantage of free and plentiful on-site car parking, with no space restrictions.
Full-time 37.5 hours per week considered.
For further information about individual roles please contact Sadia Mahmood, Head Pharmacist via email sadia.mahmood1@nhs.net or phone on 0121 466 6214.
Person specification
Qualifications / training
* Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
* Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
* Evidence of continuing professional development
* Masters Degree / Higher degree / Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Experience
* Ability to influence junior pharmacy and medical staff, multi-disciplinary teams, and managers
* Experience of working in a dispensing environment
* Significant experience of working in a hospital pharmacy service or other clinical patient-facing role
* Experience of working with multidisciplinary teams in the management of patients
* Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner and to make sound clinical judgements and decisions
Skills/knowledge
* Sound knowledge of clinical practice and clinical therapeutics. Able to demonstrate a good understanding of therapeutic options
* Good analytical and problem-solving skills, and ability to analyse drug usage reports
* Experience of producing reports using pharmacy software
* Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice
* Good understanding of risk management and ability to manage risks in pharmacy
* Good organisation and time management skills and meeting set targets and deadlines. Ability to prioritise effectively
* Confident and shows effective interpersonal skills. Excellent communication skills, written and oral
* Ability to work under pressure
* Works as part of a team player.
Other job requirements
* Ability to travel between sites across BCHC
* Demonstrates commitment to the promotion of equal opportunities
Disability Confident Employer and Guaranteed Interview Scheme
BCHC offers a guaranteed interview to any candidate who is Disabled, Neurodiverse, has a hidden or long-term health condition as recognised under the Equality Act 2010, providing they meet the essential criteria of the job role, as set out in the person specification. We encourage applicants to submit their applications and to request any reasonable adjustments where required.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Birmingham is a fantastic place to live, and we serve a wide range of people and communities. BCHC is an advocate of diversity and strives to mirror the community we serve as much as possible.
We are committed to and actively promote equality of opportunity for all staff, and applications from individuals from all areas of the community who meet the specific criteria are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, and marriage/civil partnerships.
Promoting Workforce Equality
In response to data held by BCHC which demonstrates that individuals from particular protected characteristics are under-represented, BCHC is striving to redress these imbalances. In order to do this, the Trust is committed to the employment and career development of individuals with these protected characteristics. As part of this commitment and given this under-representation, the Trust guarantees an interview to any applicants from under-represented groups for positions at Band 8a and above whose application meets the essential criteria for the post as detailed on the Person Specification.
The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of people who identify as Black, Minority Ethnic (BME) and welcomes applicants from these communities. Selection will be on the basis of merit. In order to ensure the diversity of our workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.
Flexible Working
Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) supports a variety of flexible working practices and, where possible (given our range of services and community settings) dependent upon the requirements associated with the role, will actively consider requests made and support these where practically possible. This may include hybrid patterns of working to enable colleagues to request the flexibility of a mixture of home/base working.
In accordance with the NHS People Promise, the Trust is committed to facilitating a healthy work/life balance that is essential to health and wellbeing and to making BCHC a ‘Great Place to Work’. We will be happy to discuss and consider all requests relating to working patterns and hours at your interview, so please do ask!
Benefits of working for us:
* Full NHS terms and conditions including extensive holidays, Agenda for Change pay with enhancements
* Attractive relocation payment if you relocate to the local area.
* Discounts for local and national retailers
* Dedicated well-being services for all employees
* Flexible working where possible
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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