Band 8a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist- Out of Hospital Services
Requirements
Requires an MPharm degree, GPhC registration, and qualification as an independent non-medical prescriber. Candidates should have a clinical diploma or higher pharmacy degree and experience in complex clinical pharmacy settings.
Job Description
Are you ready to shape the future of pharmacy outside hospital walls? Join our dynamic Out of Hospital Services Pharmacy team at UHB, where we're leading the shift in care delivery from hospitals to community settings. You'll play a key role in ensuring safe, effective and person-centred medicines optimisation across services focussing on intermediate care but including virtual wards, district nursing and community clinics.
You'll work alongside three specialist pharmacists and a specialist pharmacy technician, supported by a culture that values professional growth, innovation and collaboration. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced pharmacist with a passion for improving medicines use in older people, particularly managing polypharmacy, deprescribing and multidisciplinary care.
We invest heavily in our people -- offering access to independent prescribing, RCPharm credentialing, research internships, leadership programmes and more. You'll also benefit from flexible working opportunities, wellbeing initiatives, and access to NHS and local discounts. If you want to make a tangible difference to patient care while developing your clinical expertise and leadership, this is the perfect role for you.
Main Duties, Tasks & Skills Required
This is a highly clinical role for a pharmacist who thrives on multidisciplinary teamwork and complex patient care. You will provide expert medicines optimisation across intermediate care facilities but also assist falls and virtual ward services, district nursing teams and community-based clinics.
Your Daily Practice Will Include
- Delivering direct patient-facing pharmacy input for bedded intermediate care patients.
- Attending MDT meetings, ward rounds and clinical reviews.
- Providing expert medicines advice, governance, and education to the wider team.
- Supporting development of local protocols, pathways, audits and service improvements.
- Contributing to the design of safe, efficient prescribing systems and community pathways.
We are seeking a proactive, adaptable pharmacist with advanced clinical reasoning, strong communication skills and a passion for supporting older people to achieve better outcomes from their medicines.
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 specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
- MPharm degree or equivalent.
- GPhC registration.
- Clinical diploma (or equivalent qualification /
- Qualified as an independent non-medical prescriber.
- Membership of the Royal College of Pharmacy.
Essential
- Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in complex clinical pharmacy settings.
- 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).
- Experience in older people services.
- Experience of managing medicines expenditure for a specialty.
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
Jeff Aston
jeff.aston@uhb.nhs.uk
07833082144
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 8a
Salary
£57528.00 to £64750.00 Yearly
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-9019133
Job locations
Solihull Hospital
Lode Ln
Solihull
West Midlands
B91 2JL
Attachments
Job Description
JD PS Band 8a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist -Out of Hospital.pdf – 618KB Opens in a new window
Education
Skills
About University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) is one of the largest teaching hospital trusts in England, serving a regional, national and international population. It includes Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Solihull Hospital and Community Services, Good Hope Hospital in Sutton Coldfield and Birmingham Chest Clinic. We also run a number of smaller satellite units, allowing people to be treated as close to home as possible. We see and treat more than 2.2 million people every year across our sites and our hospitals deliver more babies than anywhere else in Europe. We are a regional centre for cancer, trauma, renal dialysis, burns and plastics, HIV and AIDS, as well as respiratory conditions like cystic fibrosis. We also have expertise in premature baby care, bone marrow transplants and thoracic surgery and have the largest solid organ transplantation programme in Europe. We provide a series of highly specialist cardiac, liver and neurosurgery services to patients from across the UK. We are world-renowned for our trauma care and have developed pioneering surgical techniques in the management of ballistic and blast injuries, including bespoke surgical solutions for previously unseen injuries. As a result of its clinical expertise in treating trauma patients and military casualties, the QEHB has been designated both a Level 1 Trauma Centre and host of the UK’s only £20m National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Surgical Reconstruction and Microbiology Research Centre (SRMRC). We have over 24,000 members of staff and we are committed to investing in their development and their health and wellbeing. UHB is a Stonewall Diversity Champion and aims to achieve positive change for LGBTQ+ people by creating an inclusive, inspiring and equal environment for both staff and service users.
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