Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekend and on call duties as required to support foundation team)
- Job ref
- 388-7426614-PC&S
- Employer
- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Torbay Hospital
- Town
- Torquay
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Mid Grade Pharmacist
Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the mid grade pharmacist team at Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust. This post is part of our mid-grade pharmacists’ programme, which includes support to develop a specialist clinical role as well as core senior pharmacist skills including prescribing, education, quality improvement and leadership.
At ward level, as part of the Admissions team, you will work closely with consultants and ward-based staff, providing pharmaceutical expertise to ensure the safety of patients. You will be responsible for helping to mentor both foundation pharmacists and pre-registration pharmacists, and will be given opportunities to gain experience in all levels of clinical service, education and training, leadership and operational co-ordination of a team.
Applicants must have a postgraduate clinical certificate or equivalent clinical experience by the start date (latest January 2025), and will be supported to undertake a prescribing qualification if they do not already hold one.
Main duties of the job
- Providing specialist clinical pharmacy support to the Admissions team, provide operational leadership to a designated ward based pharmacy team and supporting our foundation pharmacist-led weekend clinical service, this job would suit a pharmacist with excellent clinical knowledge, who is keen to develop their leadership qualities.
- Further clinical and quality improvement skills will also be required in aiding the senior pharmacist team to develop and implement new services and processes.
Working for our organisation
Come and join the innovative South Devon Pharmacy Partnership Mid Grade Pharmacist Programme and work with a fantastic pharmacy team.
Interested?-take a look at the video link attached to this advert.
As a vital part of our integrated care organisation, the Torbay and South Devon medicines optimisation teams have jointly committed to developing a pharmacy workforce that is prepared to meet the needs of our whole healthcare community.
You will be based in our friendly and well respected hospital pharmacy team work closely with and learn from multidisciplinary colleagues and patients in secondary, intermediate and primary care and mental health.
Your clinical practice will be supported and enhanced by a team of experienced medicines optimisation technicians and assistants.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See job description for more details
The specialist clinical aspects of this role are related to developing and delivering the clinical pharmacy service to the patients and staff in the TSDFT Medical Specialties Team.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- GPhC registration
- Postgraduate Clinical Certificate or equivalent clinical experience by January 2025
- Independent Prescriber or willingness and eligibility to undertake course
Desirable criteria
- Member of UKCPA
- Valid Driving Licence
Skills
Essential criteria
- Proven IT skills-standard PC software to ECDL level
- Ability to integrate into multidiscplinary team
- Knowledge of and commitment to CPD and reflective practice
- Patient counselling skills-proven experience
- Demonstrable time management and prioritisation skills
- Ability to work independently and organise own workload
- Developed critical appraisal skills
- Good negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to adapt to and learn from change
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantial proven relevant experience as a clinical pharmacist at band 6 (or equivalent) or above
- Provision of mentoring and/or supervision for pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and/or pre-registration pharmacy graduates
- Proven experience of successful multidisciplinary working
- Experience of quality improvement in a healthcare setting
- Provision of training and advice to pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals
Desirable criteria
- Experience of collection, analysis and presentation of financial, workload and audit data
- Experience of leading a quality improvement project
personal attributes
Essential criteria
- Confident and Professional manner
- Self reliant, motivated and resourceful
- Reliable, ethical, acts with integrity
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of clinical governance issues relevant to clinical pharmacy
- Understanding of and respect for the roles and responsibilities of other healthcare professionals
- Understanding of and tools and techniques of quality improvement
Desirable criteria
- Good understanding of medicines optimisation issues and systems across the primary secondary care interface
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jane Pyle
- Job title
- Clinical Pharmacy Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01803 655317
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