Band 8b Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Women’s and Childrens Services

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The UHB pharmacy department in collaboration with Women’s and Childrens services are excited to announce the opportunity to apply for an Advanced Clinical Pharmacist role at UHB. We are seeking a pharmacist experienced with Paediatrics, Neonates and/or Maternity services who wishes to expand their role or wishes to move to a Tertiary hospital setting.
This new role will work across the Trust, supported by two Specialist Pharmacists in Paediatrics and Neonates, two Senior Support Pharmacists, a clinical support rotational pharmacist and a Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Technician and will provide a strategic lead to the service.
The Pharmacy Department at UHB is very progressive with a strong focus on supporting the development of our team members. Our people are encouraged to undertake additional development and we have pharmacists undertaking research internships, leadership programmes and other courses aligned to their role. Preparing our people for career progression is a high priority and we are continuing to create several progressional career pathways.
The additional benefits of joining our team include:
-Excellent learning and development opportunities to further progress your current knowledge and experience.
-Ability to work flexibly to deliver the job role.
-The opportunity to retain a patient facing clinical role.
-Access to Trust health and wellbeing initiatives and a variety of staff networks.
-Access to exclusive benefits for you and your family.
Main duties, tasks & skills required
This role will require strategic leadership and management responsibility for the ongoing development and sustainability of a high quality, innovative clinical service to support the Women’s and Childrens service provision across the UHB sites.
The role will suit an individual with a proven track record of delivering advanced care service within pharmacy in the healthcare setting. Someone who is an expert in Paediatric and Neonates medicine, keen to adopt novel approaches and be recognised nationally through input beyond the organisation to local (with other Trusts and relevant regional networks) and national strategic levels.
The Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Women’s and Childrens services will have overall responsibility for managing, leading, risk management, medicines optimisation monitoring and clinical audit.
The role’s strategic aims will include:
*To identify, prioritise and contribute to the development of innovative services within the Trust and manage the change process required to achieve them.
*To ensure that issues concerning pharmaceutical care are appropriately presented to the speciality and produce business plans to advance the service.
*To drive pharmacy research opportunities as an expert in the speciality.
*To support the delivery of a robust education programme relating to pharmaceutical aspects of Paediatric and Neonatal Medicine for all Trust staff both clinical and non-clinical.
About us
We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:
Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their ‘whole self’ to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
* BSc, BPharm, MPharm or equivalent in pharmacy
* Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy practice or other post-graduate qualification/experience
* Leadership/management qualification or equivalent experience
* Member of The General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
* Motivated to words towards consultant credentialing with the RPS
* Independent prescriber or desire to work towards this qualification following appointment
Experience
Essential
* Significant experience as a clinical pharmacy practitioner in an acute hospital pharmacy setting within the field of Women’s and Children’s services.
* Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
* Demonstrable experience of managing staff
* Ability to manage budgets and deliver on cost improvement programmes
* Demonstrable experience in supporting Paediatrics, neonates and women’s services.
* Demonstrable experience in training and education
* Identify and implement best practice
* Detailed understanding of the speciality and medicines use in paediatrics, neonates and obstetrics.
* Understanding and implementation of national and local priorities
* Demonstrates awareness of and commitment to the Clinical Governance Agenda
Additional Criteria
Essential
* Remains calm and personally effective in all situation and able to change communication style to suit the audience
* Able to identify and prioritise tasks and organise and plan own work to meet deadlines along with prioritising work for others
* Able to critically appraise and evaluate information
* Excellent presentation skills
* Excellent communication skills (written and verbal)
* Ability to communicate highly complex clinical or technical information
* Sound judgement on pharmaceutical issues – able to analyse options, make a judgement and defend it
* Word processing, email and accurate data entry skills
* Demonstrable experience of writing report and business cases
* Proven ability to lead and motivate others
* Integrates research evidence into practice
* Identifies own training needs
* Ability to cope with frequent interruptions where the job holder has to change from one activity to another at the response of a third party
* Ability to deal with frequent interruptions.
* Proven ability to work to deadlines and time management without supervision.
* Willingness to travel across all sites as required by the job role.
* Participation in 7 day week rota including bank holidays and weekend and on-call rota
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.
UK Professional Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.Location: Birmingham