Employer: Cardiff and Vale University Health Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park
Town: Cardiff
Salary: £54,550 - £61,412 pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/11/2024 23:59
Band 8a
WHO WE ARE:
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff and providing over 100 specialist services. Serving a population of around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focused on the health and care needs of our local population whilst also working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone and to delivering excellent care and support.
Our mission is “Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together”. We have recently refreshed our strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, which sets out the Health Board’s Vision for improving the health and wellbeing of the populations we serve by 2035 through the delivery of our strategic objectives: Putting People First, Providing Outstanding Quality, Delivering in the Right Places, and Acting for the Future.
We are a values-driven organisation, and our goals will only be realised if our values are at the heart of everything we do. Created by colleagues, patients and their families and carers, our values are:
* We are kind and caring
* We are respectful
* We have trust and integrity
* We take personal responsibility
As an organisation, we strongly believe that it is vital our leaders exhibit the behaviours and values that we expect from all our staff.
We are a teaching Health Board with close links to the university sector, and together we are training the next generation of healthcare professionals, while working on research that will hopefully unlock the cures for today’s illnesses.
Job overview
Do you aspire to join a Medicines Advice Service which is well resourced, supported and has a progressive, innovative view of the future? We are looking for a dynamic individual with vision, who is excited about driving change and quality improvement and has a positive attitude.
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic pharmacist to join the team in the Welsh Medicines Advice Service (WMAS), in the Pharmacy Department at the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff. Join our highly motivated team and share in our values, caring for people, keeping them well.
The WMAS plays a leading role in transforming the delivery of Medicines Advice Services across Wales – it is a forward-thinking and adaptive environment to work in. WMAS Cardiff provides local, regional and national services and works closely with the local Medicines Information services across Wales, and supports the UK-wide work of the UKMi network.
Main duties of the job
In this post, you will support the pharmacist team leader and take a leading role in the provision of publications and guidance to support healthcare professionals and patients with the safe, effective and efficient use of medicines within Cardiff and Vale UHB, across Wales, and the rest of the UK.
You will also be part of the team supporting the review and delivery of Welsh Government Directed Clinical Community Pharmacy Services (CCPS) by contributing to the development of aligned all Wales patient group directions and supporting materials for the CCPS. You will also have a leadership role in the ongoing review of the all Wales Common Ailments Service Formulary and its processes.
Working for our organisation
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focused on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.
Our mission is “Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together”, and our vision is that every person’s chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. Our 10-year transformation and improvement strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, is our chance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
* UK registered pharmacist
* Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Experience
* Able to write good quality information on medicines
* Experience working in Medicines Information / Advice Service
* Writing, editing and proof-reading publications on medicines
* Attended National MI Training Course
* Community pharmacy or primary care pharmacy experience
Skills
* Excellent verbal and written communication skills
* Able to speak at high-level meetings
* Evidence of decision-making skills
* Supervisory skills
* Critical appraisal / literature searching skills
* Previous teaching/training experience
* Digitally literate, including use of M365 packages
* Management or leadership skills
* Completed service improvement training
Special knowledge
* Good knowledge of information sources
* Good pharmacology/therapeutics knowledge
* Knowledge of NHS developments in primary and secondary care
* Knowledge of local and national prescribing strategies
MANAGING YOUR APPLICATION:
We are committed to promoting inclusion, where all staff have a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from everyone and recognise the need for our workforce to represent the diversity of the population we serve. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect and where diversity is celebrated.
Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
The UHB reserves the right to close this vacancy after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment-related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Contact: Dianne Burnett, National Lead for Medicines Advice. [emailprotected] 07866 823 886
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