• Are you an experienced pharmacist looking for a challenge in a new working environment, to broaden your clinical experience?

• Would you like to be part of a dedicated team committed to providing the best patient care?

• Are you looking for a part-time role as a clinical pharmacist

• Are you a band 6 pharmacist who has or is about to complete their clinical diploma?

• Or a band 6 pharmacist currently undertaking a clinical diploma, looking to gain experience in a different NHS setting?

If the answer is 'Yes', then we may have the job for you.

Summary:

Due to staff progression an opportunity has arisen for clinical pharmacist role in our patient focused pharmacy service.

This position is based at Moseley Hall Hospital, with full-time hours available. There are a variety of clinical specialisms covered including Elderly Care, Neurology and Stroke rehabilitation.

As a clinical pharmacist you will specialise in one of these clinical areas, joining our team of pharmacists and technicians providing medicines optimisation support and advice to our adult inpatient wards.

You will have the opportunity to experience a variety of areas and continue to challenge yourself to grow as a pharmacist.

Our team endeavours to provide a comprehensive, efficient and safe pharmacy service to all clinical areas. This is to ensure we are consistently contributing to quality improvements in both prescribing and overall patient care.

Main duties of the job

About you:

We are looking for a friendly, dedicated and motivated clinical pharmacist to join our expanding team.

Working alongside clinical colleagues you will be integrated in to the ward teams, attending multidisciplinary meetings and consultant ward rounds to support the pharmaceutical needs of patients under your care.

You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, in addition to being able to organise your workload to prioritise your time. You will also have the ability to work under pressure, whilst ensuring that all patients experience out Trust values whilst in our care.

Previous experience in any of the clinical areas listed is desirable, where you be the nominated lead pharmacist for this specialism.

The ideal candidate will have experience in pro-actively influencing prescribing within a hospital environment and have attained or have completed at least 1 year of a postgraduate clinical diploma.

An on-call commitment is part of the role.

For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description and Person specification document. Please see the attached supporting document.

About us

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Job description

Job responsibilities

The location:

Moseley Hall Hospital is a community hospital within Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust.We offer sub-acute care with admissions coming via the local acute and specialist NHS trusts or direct from the community. A core part of our role is rehabilitation to enable patients to transfer home or to an appropriate care setting, on clinically appropriate medication.

At Moseley Hall Hospital our sub-acute elderly care patient cohort is currently held across 3 of our wards. We also have a specialist stroke ward and an Inpatient Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (INRU) which provides brain injury rehabilitation services for both inpatients and outpatients.

About us:

We are a small, friendly forward thinking team that is currently developing our pharmacy service. Future projects include the introduction of EPMA of across the Trust.

Patient experience and safety is at the centre of everything we do. Support, mentoring and further training will be provided to the successful candidates, to ensure that you fulfil your potential in this new challenging role. You will be actively encouraged to contribute to service development and quality improvement. This role will provide the opportunity to develop leadership and managerial skills. All team members are allocated development time each week.

We also have the advantage of free and plentiful on-site car parking, with no space restrictions.

Position available:

Part-Time 22.5 hours per week

For further information about individual roles please contact John Morrison, Chief Pharmacist via email john.morrison6@nhs.net or phone on 0121 4664098.

Person Specification

Qualifications / training

Essential

• Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Masters Degree / Higher degree / Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Experience

Essential

• Ability to influence junior pharmacy and medical staff, multi-disciplinary teams and managers
• Experience of working in a dispensing environment
• Significant experience of working in a hospital pharmacy service or other clinical patient facing role
• Experience of working in with multidisciplinary teams in the management of patients
• Ability to work as an autonomous practitioner and to make sound clinical judgements and decisions

Skills/knowledge

Essential

• Sound knowledge of clinical practice and clinical therapeutics. Able to demonstrate a good understanding of therapeutic options
• Good analytical and problem solving skills, and ability to analyse drug usage reports
• Experience of producing reports using pharmacy software
• Demonstrable use of clinical audit to improve practice
• Good understanding of risk management and ability to manage risks in pharmacy

Personal qualities

Essential

• Good organisation and time management skills and meeting set targets and deadlines. Ability to prioritise effectively
• Confident and shows effective interpersonal skills. Excellent communication skills, written and oral
• Ability to work under pressure
• Works as part of a team player.

Other job requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel between sites across BCHC
• Demonstrates commitment to the promotion of equal opportunities

Employer details

Employer name

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT

Address

Moseley Hall Hospital

Alcester Road

Birmingham

B13 8JL

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