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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Includes weekend working on a rotational basis plus emergency duty commitment)
Job ref
223-ASP-297-C
Employer
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital
Town
Shrewsbury
Salary
£50,952 - £57,349 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

Employer heading

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust logo

Advanced Specialist Pharmacist - Education and Training

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Job overview

We have a great opportunity for a dynamic, highly motivated clinical pharmacist to undertake an exciting role leading on the day to day delivery of Keele University pharmacy undergraduate placements, supporting preregistration trainee pharmacists undertaking their foundation year and helping develop colleagues using the Newly Qualified Pharmacist programme in our new STEP-Up package.

If you would welcome an opportunity to further your career and academic advancement by undertaking fully funded research leading to a PhD or professional doctorate, or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy Practice - this is fully supported by the Trust and the department.

Main duties of the job

Based at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, you will lead on the day to day co-ordination of undergraduate pharmacy placements and support other learners (including foundation pharmacists, preregistration trainee technicians and newly qualified pharmacists) within the department supported by cross site education and training leads. 

You will provide highly specialist professional and clinical information and advice to healthcare teams, patients and carers on medicines management.

 

Working for our organisation

Do you want to make a difference?

Then our department is right for you.

Here in our department; we are all one team, here for our patients. Everybody on this team knows something that somebody else may not and so we are all each other’s safety net.  We choose to value and respect each other so that we create the best possible environment for excellence.

We believe in making a difference for our patients.

Due to investment and the development of new roles, there are several new opportunities available within our department.

This is an exciting time that will lead to much improvement for our patient’s care – if you want to make a difference; now is the time to join The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust (SaTH) Pharmacy.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full duties and responsibilities please refer to the attached document entitled Job Description.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered with GPhC
  • Postgraduate education to at least diploma
Desirable criteria
  • Registered Independent Prescriber
  • Postgraduate teaching qualification (e.g. CertEd)
  • Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Currently working in Hospital Pharmacy
  • Significant experience of hospital pharmacy if not working in that sector currently
  • Experience of MDT working with example
  • Experience of documenting in notes with example
  • Experience of training pharmacy staff with example
  • Audit with example
Desirable criteria
  • Project management/report writing example
  • Policy/guideline writing with example
  • Staff management with description
  • Prereg tutor/Foundation pharmacist designated supervisor experience

Skills

Desirable criteria
  • Teaching other staff groups with examples

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
David Millett
Job title
Pharmacist Team Lead - Education and Training
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01743 261242

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
Shrewsbury Business Park
1 Douglas Court
Anchorage Avenue
Shrewsbury
Shropshire
SY2 6LG
Telephone
01743 492402
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