Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Part time
- Other
- Job ref
- 070-BPP-0324
- Employer
- Powys Teaching Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bronllys
- Town
- Bronllys
- Salary
- £44,398 - £50,807 Pro Rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/04/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Bank - Pharmacist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Be part of a 'Healthy Caring Powys' and help us transform the way we provide health and care, so our communities can Start Well, Live Well and Age Well.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
This is a fantastic development opportunity to gain invaluable experience as a clinical pharmacist within a unique rural environment and in a flexible way.
This Bank role is to support the PTHB community services Pharmacy team who offer support to designated community hospital wards and departments and community teams.
You will be working in conjunction with a team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians and your development will be further supported by the Health Board Medicines Management team and an experienced multidisciplinary workforce, including GPs.
You will help ensure excellent quality of care and operational efficiency, with regard to medicines, across Powys and will travel around one of the most beautiful parts of the UK. Your communication, clinical and innovative skills will be used to demonstrate the significant input that pharmacy professionals of all grades have to offer to patient care and multidisciplinary teams.
Main duties of the job
The Clinical Pharmacist will provide and help develop a comprehensive, high quality clinical pharmacy service to the multidisciplinary teams responsible for inpatient, outpatient, day hospital, theatre, and community care within Powys Teaching Health Board, including working across settings to ensure integrated pharmaceutical care is achieved.
Ensure relevant medicines reconciliation is completed.
Be involved in medical drug rounds and multi-disciplinary teams, providing
clinical pharmacy advice.
Support the safe transfer of patients between setting by liaising with
appropriate staff, including community pharmacies, DGH and/or GP Practice Pharmacists as appropriate.
Ensure patients being discharged have support and/or understanding to safely continue their medication treatment following discharge, utilising outreach Pharmacy Technician services where appropriate.
The role will include rotation through mental health services and primary care, through GP practices and can include providing a clinical pharmacy service in a patient’s home.
Working for our organisation
Being the smallest Heath Board in Wales means that you won’t get lost in the crowd. Everybody at Powys Teaching Health Board is valued for the contribution they make to our varied and diverse portfolio of community-based services. Together, we can continue to make a real difference to our patients and build on our unrivalled reputation.
As a supportive and progressive employer, we actively encourage you to carve out a career with us, through a range of development pathways. We’re also lucky enough to be situated in one of the most beautiful rural counties in Britain, let alone Wales! Achieving a healthy ’life work’ balance is essential, and something we recognise by prioritising your well-being.
To start your journey with us, and to learn more about what we can offer you please visit: https://pthb.nhs.wales/working-for-us/. There you will find information about our benefits and values, read staff experiences and more about what our beautiful county has to offer.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Clinical Pharmacist will provide and help develop a comprehensive, high quality clinical pharmacy service to the multidisciplinary teams responsible for inpatient, outpatient, day hospital, theatre, and community care within Powys Teaching Health Board, including working across settings to ensure integrated pharmaceutical care is achieved.
Duties and Responsibilities include,
Deliver clinical pharmacy services to Powys community hospital inpatient or virtual wards and support services such as day case and theatres, outpatients, minor injuries unit, community healthcare teams and mental health areas. This is to ensure safe, rational, and effective prescribing and will include discussions with prescribers and attendance on medical ward rounds and MDT sessions
where appropriate.
Provide specialist pharmaceutical and prescribing advice to medical staff within the Health Board, General Practitioners, and other members of the
multidisciplinary team. This will include researching answers, using trusted
medicines information resources, including highly specialist services, and
critically appraising evidence or expert advice. Require interpreting and acting on complex clinical information from a wide variety of conflicting sources and providing a clinical pharmaceutical opinion when information is conflicting or may be challenged.
Handle clinically urgent enquiries within a timely manner and prioritise tasks according to the level of urgency. Input enquiries and answers given into the MI Databank Medicines Information database.
Please see full Job description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- GPhC registered Pharmacist
- 4 years Masters degree (MPharm) or equivalent BPharm or BSc in Pharmacy, and highly developed specialist knowledge
- Prepared to work towards a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or Therapeutics
- Awareness of implications of current developments in pharmacy practice and NHS Wales strategies / policies
- Excellent understanding of pharmacy/medicines standards, legal requirements, and guidelines
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or Therapeutics
- Independent Prescriber
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, working to the faculty framework
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience of working as a Clinical Pharmacist
- Experience of working as a Clinical Ward Pharmacist
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience in undertaking audit and research
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate safe, effective and efficient use of medicines
- Ability to support the development of clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives
- Ability to critically appraise and interpret complex information to make an informed recommendation about medication therapy
- Able to motivate, negotiate and influence healthcare professionals and patients
- Self-motivated, proactive and able to act on own initiative
- Able to work calmly under pressure and deal with conflicting pressures and deadlines
Desirable criteria
- Ability to speak Welsh
- Ability to educate, train, supervise and evaluate pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals
Other
Essential criteria
- Frequent travel across Powys to inpatient and community-based teams and patients; the candidate will need to have the means to travel across the county – a driver’s licence is likely to be required
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jayne Price
- Job title
- Head of Community Services Medicines Management
- Email address
- [email protected]
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