UHB is one of the largest Trust's in England and has one of the largest HIV departments based on the Queen Elizabeth site treating patients in both outpatient clinics and inpatients. The UHB HIV service is the leading HIV services in the Midlands with the highest prevalence of HIV outside of London. Our expertise and experience is nationally acknowledged.

In this role you will lead and support the provision of the clinical pharmacy service to HIV. You will manage our Specialist Pharmacy team members to develop the service including pharmacist led adherence and prescribing clinics and as we further develop our electronic prescribing system. Harmonisation of practices across our sites will support the need for service development.

You will also support developing the strategy and direction of the service with the clinical service lead and represent pharmacy in relevant specialist networks, and in joint work within our locality to integrated care system (ICS) and other bodies (e.g. CSU's and NHSE) at local and regional level.

There will be a strong emphasis on supporting you in developing clinical leadership and mentoring skills to the next level. With the support of the Clinical operational and site leads, you will complete core directorate activities such as reporting and analysis of medicines expenditure.

The Trust has close links with local universities and you will be involved with supporting the undergraduate pharmacy teaching.

Main duties of the job

*Has leadership and management responsibility for the HIV service provided by the pharmacy team on the Queen Elizabeth site.

*The post holder will manage the service delivery of pharmacists working within the HIV on the QE site and work alongside their counterpart on HIV on the Heartlands site.

*The post holder will provide a specialist clinical pharmacist service to the HIV specialty.

*Interprets the needs of the specialty and negotiates a range of pharmacy services to meet them. Represents pharmacy to the specialty, and ensures pharmacy and medicines management are taken account of in the specialty's development plans and day-to-day operation.

*Plans and implements developments to the pharmacy service to the specialty.

*Line manages Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacy Assistants, Trainee Pharmacists and Undergraduate Pharmacists seconded to the specialty for experience

*The post holder will manage, lead, develop and participate in practice research, risk management, clinical intervention monitoring and clinical audit, including managing interface issues

*The post holder will provide managerial and professional support to the Specialist Clinical Pharmacist -- Sexual Health

*To take full part in clinical/dispensary rota and bank holidays duties.

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

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• * 4 year vocational Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
• * Post-graduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent experience
• * Member of The General Pharmaceutical Council
• * Qualified as an independent prescriber

Experience

Essential

• * Significant experience as a clinical pharmacy practitioner in an acute hospital pharmacy setting
• * Substantial experience in HIV and Viral Hepatitis
• * Able to influence and implement policy at senior management and clinical level
• * Substantial experience in project management and service development
• * Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
• * Experience in supervising and managing pharmacists & pharmacy technicians and performing appraisals
• * Ability to manage budgets and deliver on cost improvement programmes
• * Networking: being able to work within and without the Trust with credibility
• * Has managed and implemented service developments
• * Experience of supervision, developing and appraising staff as well as giving feedback

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

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304-1081936YS