Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
We require reliable, enthusiastic and motivated Bank Specialist Clinical Pharmacist to join our bank. In return we will offer you:
* Flexible hours; choose when and where you want to work
* Competitive pay rates; including enhanced pay for unsociable hours
* Paid annual leave
* A fast-track recruitment process if you move to a substantive role
* Opportunities to work in different wards and departments, including community, dental and specialist services
* Access to Services, such as those provided by our Staff Wellbeing Team
* Ability to book your shifts from home using our online portal
* Option to block-book shifts in a set period
* SMS notifications of shift availability
* Access to staff newsletters and bulletins
* Eligible for various local and national discounts which are available to NHS staff
* Free uniform, where applicable
Main duties of the job
We are looking for enthusiastic pharmacists to support medicines optimisation across our acute pharmacy service. This post will be rotational and will involve working across our main clinical sites, including The Specialist Emergency Care Hospital and our base site hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham. Specialist input to a designated area will be required, exact details of the clinical speciality will be discussed at interview.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job responsibilities
To provide specialist clinical pharmacy services within an assigned area of responsibility. To lead on matters pertaining to medicines management, to advise on medicines use (risk management, clinical governance, research and development, formulary, expenditure) and to develop/audit relevant protocols and guidelines. To ensure that there is compliance with medicines legislation.
To assist in the provision of advice on pharmaceutical matters and that pertaining to medicines management (particularly within own area of responsibility). Medicines management encompasses the selection, purchasing, delivery, prescribing, administration and review of medicine to optimise the contribution they make to produce informed and desired outcomes of patient care.
To provide excellent patient care, in primary and acute care settings, through direct patient facing activities. Primary care encompasses general medical practice, as well as people requiring care in their own homes or in residential care homes.
To undertake teaching and to supervise less experienced Pharmacists, technical staff, students etc.
Day to day management of pre-registration pharmacy technicians, trainee pharmacists and / or Band 6 pharmacists
To contribute to the day to day operational running of the pharmacy department e.g. by assuming statutory professional responsibility whilst working in the dispensary.
To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person Specification
Experience & Knowledge
* Knowledge and experience of the operation of NHS Organisations
* Experience of supervising staff
* Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
* Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Qualifications & Professional Registration
* oVocational master's degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)/ First degree - Vocational master's degree in pharmacy or equivalent qualification and/or experience
* oPrevious pre-registration training
* oRegistered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* oIT skills to at least ECDL standard or equivalent experience
* oIndependent Prescriber, or commitment to achieving this on appointment
* oMember of Royal Pharmaceutical Society and/or other professional groups to facilitate continuing professional development
* oAchieved or working towards a postgraduate clinical qualification
Skills & Abilities
* Involved in regional or national committees
* Published pharmaceutical research
Other Requirements
* It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role
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.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
£46,148 to £52,809 a yearPro Rata, Per Annum
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