Job summary
The Consultant Pharmacist Neurology, as the expert within neurology, provides a dynamic link between clinical practice and service development by creating new models for delivering patient care ensuring the best experience and outcomes for patients from their medicines whenever and wherever their care is delivered.
The post provides the opportunity to develop your clinical skills and knowledge as a Band 8b pharmacist progressing to a Band 8c Consultant Pharmacist post once you've demonstrated the level of competence expected of a consultant pharmacist and the post has been reviewed and approved by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Main duties of the job
To provide a specialist neurology pharmacy service, contribute to improving health outcomes for patients using a holistic approach to care, ensuring the safe and effective use of medicine through provision of medicines-related aspects of patient care.
To promote improvements in quality, safety and cost effectiveness of medicines use and supporting holistic management of clinical conditions, influencing the wider community of practice.
About us
At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do and that is to provide a world class service that aligns with our vision of "excellent health care, improved health for all". We are seeking to recruit staff who share our vision and values of making Dudley Group an incredible workplace.
We are committed to becoming a diverse and an inclusive employer, where people feel sense of belonging. Seeking to expand diversity within our teams, we positively encourage applications from under-represented groups such as ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQ+ groups. We are also under-represented in-terms of gender within nursing roles and we would welcome applications from people from male and non-binary backgrounds.
Dudley Group offer many opportunities for our staff to develop and grow within their roles through our Learning & OD department. These include topics such as communication, wellbeing, team development, cultural competency, and values, plus much more. For those in a Management/Leadership role, there are additional programmes to support you to develop the skills you need. These include our Managers Essentials Programme and a Leadership Programme that all managers will attend as part of your Dudley Managers Induction. Our Learning Prospectus is a great way to discover the details behind what's available for you here at The Dudley Group.
We are committed to home life balance through flexible working and making reasonable adjustments where possible
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
1. Meets essential qualifications
2. Independent Prescriber
Experience
Essential
3. Experience of being accountable for the delivery, management and strategic overview of a specialist service
4. Experience in multi-disciplinary clinical audit and research to guide service changes and development
Communication & relationship skills
Essential
5. Able to influence, persuade and negotiate with relevant clinicians, managers and stakeholders
6. Excellent verbal and written communication skills to shape antimicrobial use at an organisational, individual clinician level
Planning & Organisational skills
Essential
7. Evidence of planning, implementing and monitoring outcomes in research, quality improvement or audit
Knowledge & training
Essential
8. Meets essential knowledge requirements