Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 12 months (to cover a secondment)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-PST037-0625
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Princess of Wales Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Infectious Diseases Advanced Pharmacist
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
We are looking for an antimicrobial advanced pharmacist at the Princess of Wales Hospital. This is a secondment post for 12 months to cover a secondment.
This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated, open minded and dynamic pharmacist who is an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal / relationship building skills.
You will lead the pharmacy AMS service at the Princess of Wales Hospital, supporting the clinical service lead pharmacist to support the development of a culture that reduces associated infection and supports excellence in antimicrobial prescribing. You will work with the wider AMS team across the health board to support the delivery of the AMS strategy. You will lead, plan and undertake audits on compliance with local policies and antimicrobial prescribing and identify potential cost savings associated with AMS within the health board.
You will need to be an experienced pharmacist that has worked across a variety of clinical areas and is now ready to specialise in antimicrobials.
You need experience in service delivery and management and a proven track record of delivering change within dynamic environments.
An independent prescribing qualification is desirable but not essential.
Main duties of the job
To improve patient care and clinical outcomes by developing and leading high quality, safe, effective and efficient use of anti-infectives which meet national and UK strategy and standards.
To provide highly specialised medicines management advice as part of and to the multidisciplinary IPC team.
To provide patient-orientated pharmacy services to inpatients, outpatients and in pharmacist-led clinics or as a pharmacist independent prescriber on ward rounds as appropriate.
Deliver the financial and economic benefits identified in the antimicrobial stewardship programme.
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 wellbeing 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Please see job description and personal specification for full list.
Working collaboratively with consultant microbiologists, to ensure best use of anti-infective medicines according to UHB policies under a national and local strategic framework.
To develop approaches to reduce variation, waste and harm associated with the use of anti-infective medicines.
Collaborate with directorate pharmacists and prescribing advisors to promote consistent best practice in antimicrobial stewardship across primary and secondary care.
Analysing antimicrobial prescribing data and advising on the development of appropriate treatment protocols and care pathways.
Person specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Masters Degree in Pharmacy or equivalent e.g. BSc/BPharm/MPharm
- Registered member of the general pharmaceutical council (GPhC)
- Appropriate post graduate qualification e.g. Clinical diploma or equivalent experience Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Appropriate post registration with experience in a range of hospital pharmacy settings
- Audit/research experience
- Working within a multidisciplinary team
- Monitoring financial expenditure
- Good working knowledge of clinical antimicrobial use and ability to gain advanced knowledge levels.
- Knowledge of prescribing and pharmaceutical systems and processes
- Good knowledge of pharmacology and therapeutics.
- Knowledge of Economics of health care
- Knowledge of Professional and Legal issues surrounding prescribing and dispensing Working knowledge of risk management
Desirable criteria
- Related postgraduate qualifications e.g. Research/Public Health/Ethics
- Post-graduate qualification in infection management
- Independent prescriber
- Active membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of GB
- Knowledge of the ethics governing research/audit.
- Knowledge of GP practice prescribing systems
- Knowledge of the GMS contract and community pharmacy contract
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience required to fulfil the post
- Use types of achievements and activities that would be likely to predict success in the role rather than ‘years’, e.g. Extensive previous experience of working with health finance systems.
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience working in an antimicrobial/infection control specialist field
- Previous experience conducting antimicrobial reviews
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals and members of the public. Ability to present to large groups of people and deliver training.
- Ability to make decisions
- Computer literate including use of spreadsheets for financial reporting.
- Good Negotiation skills, ability to manage conflict and deal with difficult situations
- Self motivated and able to work as part of a team. Committed to self study and self development
- Ability to analyse and solve problems
- Good time management, prioritisation and organisational skills
Desirable criteria
- Welsh language Speaking/Listening Skills Level 3 or above
- Experience of inter-agency working
- Ability to use and develop spreadsheets and databases
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
- Gabriella Booth
- Job title
- Deputy Head of Pharmacy - Clinical Services Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 752686
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