Band 7 Senior Support Pharmacist - Healthcare of Older People

Job Summary

Are you an early-career pharmacist ready to take your next step in a supportive, specialist environment?

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust -- one of the UK's leading NHS Trusts -- is recruiting a Senior Support Pharmacist for Healthcare of Older People based at Good Hope Hospital.

This role will enable you to build your clinical expertise and leadership skills within a forward-thinking pharmacy team. You will deliver specialist clinical pharmacy services on the wards, develop your mentoring and leadership skills, contribute to education and training programmes, and supervise junior and trainee pharmacists -- all with strong support around you.

You will have access to post-graduate clinical pharmacy training and support to undertake or complete non-medical prescribing, with protected learning time built into your working week.

The role is open to pharmacists who have completed a minimum of 2--3 early-career rotations and have started, or are working towards, a clinical diploma or the RPS Newly Qualified Pharmacist Pathway. Applicants with 12 months' post-registration hospital experience may be appointed under Annex 21 (75% of Band 7 maximum), progressing to full Band 7 on meeting the relevant milestone.

Come and grow with a team that values your development, your wellbeing, and your ambition.

Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required

Join a well-established, friendly pharmacy team at Good Hope Hospital, where you'll be supported to grow clinically and professionally from day one.

You will provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to Healthcare of Older People wards, working with a complex and rewarding patient group. The role sits within a strong MDT, with well-developed links across frailty and other specialties -- giving you broad clinical exposure and the chance to make a real difference to patient outcomes.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include prescription screening, medicines reconciliation, therapeutic drug monitoring, and contributing to audit, research, and service development. The team contributes to regional initiatives and reports to the Medicines Management Advisory Group, improving quality of care across the interface.

You will take on meaningful leadership from early on -- supervising junior and trainee pharmacists and contributing to education and training for pharmacy, nursing, and medical colleagues.

We actively encourage ongoing development and research. You'll have protected learning time built into your working week, support to complete your clinical diploma/NQPP and independent prescribing qualification, and access to excellent trust-wide wellbeing initiatives and staff networks.

Good Hope is well connected by public transport and within easy reach of central Birmingham. If you're looking for a role where you'll be stretched, supported, and genuinely valued -- this is it.

About Us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job Description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Vocational Master's degree in pharmacy (or equivalent relevant qualification)
• Has completed or is near completion (within the next 6 months) a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification.
• To be willing to work towards a non-medical prescribing qualification
• Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
  
  

Desirable

• Has commenced a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification (applicable for Annex 21 roles)
  
  

Experience

Essential

• Post-registration work experience as a pharmacist in hospital pharmacy, covering a range of specialties, or the ability to demonstrate the equivalent level of knowledge
• Previous participation in multi- disciplinary team
• Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for providing high quality pharmaceutical care
• Experience of teaching/presenting to other healthcare professionals/patients
• Commitment to own Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
• Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in hospital pharmacy
• Knowledge of national initiatives and guidelines, e.g. NICE, NSF
• Possesses knowledge of available resources to answer Medicines Information queries
• Able to work with drug budget information
• Demonstrates good knowledge of hospital clinical pharmacy and current issues
  
  

Additional Criteria

Essential

• Team worker
• Good interpersonal skills
• Good oral, written communication & presentation skills
• Good computer skills
• Demonstrates problem solving skills
• Demonstrates empathy towards patients and carers
• Able to work under pressure, prioritise work and meet deadlines
• Ability to manage budgets and deliver on cost improvement programmes
• Able to use initiative and work without supervision when necessary
• Demonstrates teaching/mentoring skills & ability to motivate other staff
• Able to interact with clinical and managerial staff
• Demonstrates good critical appraisal skills
• Professional manner
• Well-motivated and reliable
• Capacity to work calmly under pressure
• Ability to travel across all Trust sites as required by job role
  
  

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For Help With Your Application, Contact

Abbie Phillips

abbie.phillips@uhb.nhs.uk

01214249302

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49387.00 to £56515.00 Yearly

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-Time, Flexible Working

Reference number

304-9017038

Job locations

Good Hope Hospital

Rectory Rd

Sutton Coldfield

West Midlands

B75 7RR

Attachments

Job Description

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