Job summary
- Main area
- 201065 WCH Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS Afc: Band 8a
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 262-A-24-5987512
- Employer
- North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Cumberland Hospital
- Town
- Whitehaven
- Salary
- £50,952 - £57,349 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Frailty and Elderly Care
NHS Afc: Band 8a
Job overview
Advanced Specialist pharmacist - frailty and elderly care
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, highly motivated Clinical Pharmacist to be an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team working within our medicines ward supporting elderly care and frail patients. You will be responsible for the provision of a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service across the inpatient medical beds, and out patients within our Trust, working with Medicines Management Technicians and Rotational Pharmacists to deliver a high quality clinical pharmacy service to patients.
Our friendly department provides an environment that supports learning, team working and encourages individuals to develop in their role.
We are looking for someone with extensive clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience; you will have excellent communication, clinical and negotiation skills along with a strong team spirit and experience of supervising other staff.
The candidates must have or be prepared to work towards a non-medical prescribing qualification to support the service.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be responsible for:
- The leadership and proactive development of specialist clinical pharmacy services to patients within medicine collaboratives.
- Providing highly specialist clinical pharmacy services to elderly care patients and developing services in line with appropriate national standards.
- Providing expert and highly specialised pharmaceutical information and advice to medical staff, nursing staff, other healthcare professionals and patients, both within the Trust and externally as appropriate.
- To work as an independent prescriber developing the role for designated areas of clinical practice.
- Work collaboratively with other clinicians and health-care providers to implement and maintain innovative disease management programs and clinical pharmacy services
- Providing clinical training, guidance, support and supervision of training grade pharmacists, foundation pharmacists, other Pharmacy staff and other Trust staff as required.
- Promoting the medicines optimisation agenda by leading specific audit and research projects in the agreed specialty and provide support to others.
- Monitoring expenditure within the agreed specialty against medicines budget, identifying and implementing cost saving initiatives.
- Evaluating and expanding the role of pharmacy services within our surgical areas, as well as delivering the required medication safety and governance agendas.
Working for our organisation
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.
We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies?
- Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
- If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.
Important Information
Candidates who have been successfully shortlisted for interview will be asked via an email notification to log on to their Trac account to select an interview time. This will usually be within 2 weeks of the closing date.
For candidates applying using a Hotmail account or have strict firewall settings please ensure the following:
- Junk Mail is checked regularly
Disclosure and Barring Service:
On 28 November 2020, the new Disclosure and Barring Service filtering rules will come into effect.
The changes mean that:
- youth cautions, reprimands and final warnings will no longer be subject to automatic disclosure
- the multiple conviction rule has been removed, meaning that if an individual has more than one conviction, regardless of offence type or time passed, each conviction will be considered against the remaining rules individually, rather than being automatically disclosed.
If you are unsure about whether you need to disclose certain criminal record information, free confidential advice may be sought from one of the charity bodies listed below. These bodies can advise you on what you are legally required to declare and may also be able to advise you on how you can disclose criminal record information to a prospective employer and your legal rights when doing so.
Nacro – Tel: 0300 123 1999, or email: [email protected]
Unlock – Tel: 01634 247350, email [email protected] or complete the online form on the Unlock website
The Trust is committed to safeguarding adults and children therefore if the post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (ROA) 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (as amended) the successful candidate(s) will be subject to a criminal records check with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The cost of the DBS must be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction. DBS charges are as follows if applicable to the post:
Standard Check: £18 + Administration cost of £3.85 = £21.85. Deducted at £6.85 from 1st month salary and £5 deducted from salary over following 3 months.
Enhanced Check: £38 + administration cost of £3.90 = £41.90. Deducted at £11.90 from 1st month salary and £10 deducted from salary over following 3 months.
As part of the one of the largest employers in the UK NCIC future employees will have also access to the following benefits.
A lease car may be available for this position; further details will be provided upon appointment if applicable.
27 day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
Flexible working Scheme
Excellent opportunities for development
Competitive NHS Pension scheme
Access to NHS discounts with retailers and leisure companies
EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work-related problems
These schemes are subject to availability
Person specification
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Extensive specialist therapeutic and clinical knowledge relevant to the post and care group
- Expert knowledge and understanding of relevant pharmacy/medicines standards, legal requirements and guidelines
- Knowledge and awareness of implications of current developments in pharmacy practice and NHS strategies/policy
- Knowledge of current and planned developments in the pharmacy profession
- Understanding of NHS managerial and financial frameworks
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of successful change management.
- Understanding of ePACT and other prescribing data.
- Knowledge of primary care prescribing and medicines management arrangements.
- Experience of reviewing patient group directions.
- Extensive experience in a secondary care role.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Pharmacy degree (Masters or equivalent)
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Higher pharmacy professional/post graduate qualification
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development.
Desirable criteria
- On the practicing register of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPS)
- Pharmacist prescribing qualification
- Teaching and assessing qualification
Skills & Aptitudes
Essential criteria
- Ability to motivate teams to deliver objectives
- Successful team player with the ability to respect and develop the skills of others
- Ability to prioritise competing demands; work under pressure and deliver against a background of change and uncertainty.
- Ability to make judgements in highly complex situations
- Ability to critically review, analyse and interpret clinical literature, and medicines legislation
- Appropriate IT skills to utilise clinical information systems, pharmacy computer systems, databases and other software to improve patient care.
- Computer literate and ability to use Word, Excel, and PowerPoint competently
Desirable criteria
- Understanding and experience of putting evidence into practice.
Personal Circumstances
Essential criteria
- Enthusiastic, self-motivating, good organisational skills.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrate ability to work independently and within a team.
- Demonstrate ability to work independently and within a team.
- Co-operative and flexible working style with Trust wide teams.
- Flexible approach and ability to deal with interruptions.
- Ability to prioritise, deliver on agreed objectives and meet deadlines.
- Friendly, approachable, able to convey messages with empathy and diplomacy.
- Ability to motivate, influence and lead colleagues and staff.
- Competent and confident to deliver complex presentations and training sessions.
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Promote equality and value diversity.
- Ability to drive or have access to transport to travel within region.
- Commitment to develop a culture to promote trust values.
- Excellent attendance record.
- Ability to participate in on-call rota.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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
- Paul Fieldhouse
- Job title
- Clinical Director of Pharmacy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07825907349
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