Band 8a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Cardiology

Job summary

Do you have the vision, drive and enthusiasm to help us deliver an exciting modern pharmacy service?

We are seeking talented and motivated pharmacist to join the Queen Elizabeth site within our Cardiology team to help deliver a clinically focused and innovative pharmacy service. If you are a hospital pharmacist and you want to utilise your clinical skills and work in a forward-thinking department, then this is the job for you! UHB Pharmacy is a great place to work where everyone can thrive and grow.

Some of the benefits of joining our team:

Dedicated protected learning during work hours to help facilitate your development.

Work with a fantastic team offering specialist regional care for cardiology patients.

Access to trust health & wellbeing initiatives and a variety of staff networks.

Access to exclusive benefits for you & your family including NHS discounts at various retailers, restaurants and leisure facilities.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

To provide highly specialist clinical pharmacist input to the Cardiology specialty.

To ensure correct and safe prescribing, demonstrate expert clinical knowledge and provide a clinical pharmacy service of the highest standard.

To provide advice and information on issues surrounding adherence to medications prescribed in the treatment of patients.

To develop protocols and guidelines to support the medicines optimisation process where appropriate

You need to be motivated with good communication skills and a desire to use your knowledge, skills and experience to improve patient care and influence healthcare professionals in the best use of medicines.

You will be encouraged to undertake your NMP or if already achieved in another area develop your knowledge into this field.

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

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Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

*MPharm degree or equivalent

*Clinical diploma (or equivalent) or higher Pharmacy degree

*Qualified as an independent non-medical prescribed or a willingness to undertake the programme

*GPhC registration

Desirable

*Membership of the RPS

Experience

Essential

*Substantial experience as a band 7 pharmacist (or above) within hospital pharmacy.

*Experience in a range of clinical specialties.

*Previous participation in multi-disciplinary team

*Experience in supervising and managing pharmacists & pharmacy technicians and performing appraisals.

*Experience of audit work

*Excellent knowledge of general clinical pharmacy and drug use

*Networking: being able to work within and without the Trust with credibility

*Knowledge of current national standards, guidelines and service delivery issues relevant to education & training

*In-depth knowledge of Continuing Professional Development process and of Plan & Record system

*Experience of supervision, developing and appraising staff as well as giving feedback

Desirable

*Experience of tutoring pharmacists studying for postgraduate qualification

*Previous experience of teaching other healthcare professionals

*Experience of short listing and interviewing

*Experience of managing dru