Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: The contracted hours for the post is 37.5hours per week, the successful applicant will contribute to weekends, bank holidays, a late night rota slot once a week and join the on call rota
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (on call, late nights cover, weekend and bank holiday work as required by departmental rotas)
- Job ref
- 225-DIV3-7303925
- Employer
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- New Cross Pharmacy
- Town
- Wolverhampton
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 03/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Acute & Emergency Medicine Pharmacist
Band 7
Job overview
Are you a qualified pharmacist looking to significantly develop your skills in Acute & Emergency Medicine?
Due to exciting service improvement initiatives, we're building a strong team of pharmacists within our Emergency Services directorate at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and would love to hear from you.
In this role, you'll provide specialist pharmaceutical expertise to acutely unwell patients on the Acute Medical Unit. As your skills and experience grow, with the support of a senior pharmacist, you'll also extend this provision to patients within the Emergency Department.
You'll benefit from comprehensive support for your professional development. A team of senior pharmacists, under the guidance of a Principal Pharmacist ACP, will help you achieve your goals across key areas including:
- Clinical practice
- Leadership
- Education
- Research
This is a newly established role within a progressive team. We are focused on enhancing patient care at the front door of the hospital by providing high-quality pharmaceutical care, with a shared goal of improving health outcomes for our population.
If you're ready to take on a key role in a developing service and advance your expertise, we encourage you to apply.
Main duties of the job
To partake in specialised clinical pharmacy duties on the Acute & Emergency Medicine areas, ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken.
Supervise/provide professional support to junior pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, students and support staff.
Managed by senior pharmacist responsible for acute & emergency medicine with oversight from the principal pharmacist for the area.
Undertakes postgraduate clinical training where relevant to the post.
To act as an independent prescriber once registered with the GPhC in line with local policy and entered in the trust NMP register.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to wards and departments providing a medicines management service directly to patients with support and training from experienced staff.
To participate in the pharmacy dispensary, late night and oncall rotas as necessary.
To provide advice to medical and nursing staff on drug usage, and encourage compliance with the hospital/health economy formulary to ensure safe, rational , and economic prescribing.
To provide a professional lead to pharmacy technical and support staff managing medicines in designated ward areas.
To integrate into the multidisciplinary team and attend ward rounds making proactive interventions in individual patient’s therapy by providing information on drug related issues and acting as a Pharmacy contact.
To provide advice to patients on the correct use of medication and ensure that directions associated with medications are understood, including the main side-effects of the medications.
To identify drug related admissions and where appropriate follow through with a yellow card report to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Resolve medicines related problems associated with individual patients between primary and secondary care.
To support senior pharmacists contributing/providing pharmaceutical advice to the multidisciplinary audit of treatment guidelines.
To support senior pharmacists providing pharmaceutical advice at directorate level.
To maintain an up to date knowledge of developments in medical and pharmaceutical practice, as part of their own continuing professional development.
The full job description and person specification are included with this advert.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy
- Registration with GPhC as a pharmacist
Desirable criteria
- Experience in hospital pharmacy as a rotational clinical pharmacist
- Completed the pharmacy clinical diploma or equivalent (score 2 if commenced but not completed)
- Independent prescriber or working towards it (score 2 if commenced but not completed)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of participation in an outside group within pharmacy e.g. UKCPA
- Evidence of interests outside of pharmacy to maintain wellbeing and work life balance
- Evidence of participation in service improvement projects
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shane Kailla
- Job title
- Principal Pharmacist - Acute & Emergency Medicine
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01902 695757
- Additional information
Kiran Salhan - Principal Pharmacist - Medicine
[email protected] 01902 695757
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