Job summary
- Main area
- Medicines Management
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-PST040-0725
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Princess of Wales Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Pharmacist Emergency Department
Band 8a
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to develop and lead a Medicines Management service to the Emergency Department and Acute medical wards?
We are seeking to appoint a highly motivated, dynamic and experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our team at the Princess of Wales Hospital.
If you appreciate diversity, thrive on new challenges, benefit from collaborative working with other healthcare professionals and want to make a difference to the patient’s journey, this is the role for you.
Main duties of the job
You will be instrumental in preventing delays in patients receiving essential treatment and will contribute to improving patient experience and flow, expediting the safe discharge of patients from hospital, consequently increasing capacity in the acute care pathway. You will work across the emergency department and acute medical wards, managing a Pharmacy team to prioritise the delivery of patient care.
Your role will involve identifying and acting on medication related admissions and ensuring medicines reconciliation and optimisation is performed as close to admission as possible.
The Directorate is forward thinking and innovative, having an integrated approach to Primary and Secondary Care management of medicines. Pharmacy led clinics are well established and Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians are valued members of clinical multidisciplinary teams in both settings.
The hospital site has automated pharmacy systems, comprehensive medicines management services and a fully implemented electronic discharge system. This is an exciting time with the on-going implementation of hospital electronic prescribing and medicines administration across the Health Board.
We are fully committed to personal development, encouraging all staff to undertake relevant education and training to meet their needs. It is our goal for all Pharmacists in patient-facing roles to practice non-medical prescribing.
Working for our organisation
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and well-being services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
- We listen, learn and improve
- We treat everyone with respect
- We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
The Princess of Wales Hospital is ideally situated just off the M4, 20 miles outside Cardiff. The South Wales coast, including Porthcawl and Swansea Bay, lies to the West and the stunning scenery of the Brecon Beacons National Park to the North – all within a short commute.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be the Clinical Lead Pharmacist for the Emergency Department, providing highly specialised pharmaceutical advice and regular reports on clinical and financial drug issues, and be responsible for providing a safe and effective clinical pharmacy service to patients in Medicine and Emergency Department Clinical Service Group.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn’t mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing candidates. This isn’t ‘fluency’, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
Person specification
Qualifications and/or knowledge
Essential criteria
- Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Postgraduate Qualification in Clinical or Hospital Pharmacy, or equivalent clinical experience.
- Good knowledge of medicines management issues between primary and secondary care.
- Evidence of continuing professional development.
- Non Medical Prescriber or willing to undertake training.
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate Diploma in Therapeutics
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Member of the RPS Faculty or working towards Faculty membership
- Understanding of quality improvement and IQT methodology.
- Accredited practice supervisor for the post-registration Foundation Pharmacist qualification.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Hospital/managed sector pharmacy experience including extensive experience in clinical pharmacy.
- Experience of monitoring financial expenditure.
- Experience of planning audit, quality improvement or research.
- Experience of working effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Ability to train/supervise other members of staff.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of implementing change.
Aptitude, Abilities & Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Ability to present information to individuals and groups.
- Skilled negotiator and facilitator.
- Ability to manage conflict and deal with difficult situations.
- Effective organisational and prioritising skills.
- Able to evaluate information and make decisions involving highly complex facts.
- Mentoring and Appraisal skills.
Desirable criteria
- Financial modelling and forecasting skills.
- Welsh language speaking/listening skills at Level 3 or above
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Independent working
- Working as part of a team
- Enthusiastic, motivated & positive attitude to development
- Professional response to emotional/confrontational situations
- Conscientious and responsible for own actions
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Gabriella Booth
- Job title
- DHOP, Lead Pharmacist Clinical Services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 752686
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