Job summary
- Main area
- Pharmacy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 9 months (Fixed Term maternity cover, also available as a secondment)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 164-7169575
- Employer
- Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Queen's Medical Centre
- Town
- Nottingham
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 21/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist – Paediatric Oncology/Haematology
Band 8a
Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic neonatal or paediatric pharmacist looking to take the next step in your career?
Or you a pharmacist currently working in an adult speciality looking for a change of direction?
Do you enjoy working to develop services and new ways of working in order to improve patient care?
If so, this could be your perfect job!
If you'd like to be involved in shaping the exciting future of paediatric oncology/haematology in Nottingham, this is the job for you!
Main duties of the job
This post provides opportunities to
- Help lead the delivery of the clinical pharmacy service to the Paediatric Oncology Service at NUH
- Partake in specialised clinical pharmacy duties, including multi-disciplinary working
- Provide leadership, management and speciality/service support roles
- Line manage and support more junior pharmacists in the Family Health and wider Pharmacy team
Working for our organisation
With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
The neonatal service at NUH operates across two sites, with neonatal ICU, HDU and Special Care cots at both the QMC and City Hospital campuses. We provide care to vulnerable babies from throughout the region, with QMC being a specialist centre for Neonatal Surgery. To meet increasing demand, the neonatal unit at the QMC campus is being rebuilt and expanded, with the new facilities due to open in December 2024.
In this role you will be be working with a larger group of Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians working within the Family Health Division. Our team is friendly, supportive and dynamic, using our collective experience and expertise to strive to provide the best possible care for our patients.
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Personal Specification for more details about this role.
We would be delighted to speak to you about the post if you’d like to find out more.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- B.Pharm / BSc (Pharmacy) or MPharm GPhC registered
- GPhC registered
- Diploma/MSc in clinical pharmacy or other appropriate post graduate qualification or experience
- Demonstrates continued professional development
Desirable criteria
- Related post-graduate qualifications
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (MRPharmS)
- Play an active role in a relevant national network / specialist pharmacist group
- Leadership and management qualifications
- Independent prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad previous experience (post registration) of clinical pharmacy, particularly in acute settings
- Broad knowledge base of a range of clinical areas
- Experience of provision of specialist clinical pharmacy review and advice relating to the safe use of medicines.
- Experience of developing and implementing medicines and service related policies for a specialty
- Some experience of line management, including effective performance management, recruitment and allocation of staff
- Some experience of excellent leadership and management skills
- Experience of training and education of both pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals
- Experience of multidisciplinary and team working at Pharmacy, Trust and regional level
- Understanding of issues affecting the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Publication of audit/research/clinical work at national level
- Experience of working actively on national groups
- Experience in project management (including department-wide roles) and evidence of completed outcomes
- Experience in undertaking, supervising and reporting/presenting audit / research work at local (Trust) level
- Effective liaison with relevant Trust level committees / groups or equivalent
- Experience of working in urgent or emergency settings
- Experience of working with electronic prescribing and administration systems.
Communication and Relationship Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiating and presentation skills, both written and verbal -must be able to communicate highly complex drug or medicine related information to prescribers, clinicians, patients, relatives, relevant Trust committees and other stakeholders.
- Good communication skills with multidisciplinary team members and own profession.
- Able to defend opinions in a confident and constructive manner when challenged.
- Proven ability to influence and negotiate with relevant senior clinicians, managers and stakeholders.
- Empathy with patients, relatives and pharmacy customers.
Desirable criteria
- Teaching skills
- Experience of writing compelling business cases or case of need for service development
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential criteria
- Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, production issues, drug therapy decisions and patient information.
- Experience of assessing and minimising risk associated with service provision and within medication processes
- Able to critically analyse information and evidence and to communicate the findings clearly in simple terms.
- Ability to work alone and make decisions within agreed parameters ; and referring / escalating as necessary
- Experience in making judgements involving highly complex facts, which require analysis, interpretation and options appraisal e.g. drug expenditure; medicines optimisation
- Ability to maintain and monitor database of medicines and activity related information e.g. medicines expenditure and usage; rotas etc.
- Think creatively to support departmental strategy and overall Trust objectives, with evidence of incorporating innovative and ‘best practice’ into current practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience of analysing expenditure
Planning and Organisation Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to plan and organise existing and new clinical pharmacy services to a specialty. This may include creation and adjustment of plans.
- Ability to be flexible and manage change in a complex and changing healthcare environment.
- Self-motivated with excellent organisational skills, able to motivate others, to manage time effectively and work to deadlines, even when under pressure.
- Positive thinker, problem solver, ability to think laterally to develop new ideas.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Colin Ward
- Job title
- Lead Pharmacist: Children & Young People's Cancer
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07812279912
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