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Job summary

Main area
Pharmacy
Grade
Band 8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Full time
  • Part time
37.5 hours per week (Saturdays and Bank holidays, as per rotas)
Job ref
387-DT0489-LH-A
Employer
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Weston General Hospital
Town
Weston-super-Mare
Salary
£53,755 - £60,504 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
22/06/2025 23:59

Employer heading

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust logo

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist-Rheumatology

Band 8a

As an organisation we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.

Click on this link to find out about our values https://www.uhbw.nhs.uk/p/about-us/our-trust-values

Job overview

The post holder will work as an integral member of the multi-disciplinary team within Rheumatology at University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Foundation Trust to provide specialist clinical pharmacy support to the Rheumatology outpatient service.

  • To provide highly specialised advice in all pharmaceutical matters.
    To work as an independent prescriber managing a defined patient caseload.
  • To ensure that medicine use within the Rheumatology speciality is safe, effective and cost effective e.g. ensure appropriate use of Healthcare at Home supply arrangements.
  • To monitor and provide comment on drug expenditure as required e.g. in relation to high-cost therapies (biologics) and the introduction of new therapeutic agents

Main duties of the job

You will have recent hospital experience, have excellent communication, influencing and problem solving skills and preferably good mentoring, teaching and assessment skills to enable you to take on this influential role within our Trust.

Why Weston?

  • The team at Weston aims to deliver high quality, patient-focused clinical services to our patients.
  • Our team is friendly, supportive of colleagues, open to developing and implementing new ideas.
  • Weston enjoys all the benefits of a coastal location and is within 25 minutes of Bristol by train and 45 minutes by road.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications and Training

Essential criteria
  • Masters degree (or equivalent) in pharmacy
  • Postgraduate Diploma or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
  • Computer literacy, including Pharmacy applications
Desirable criteria
  • Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain

Knowledge & Experience

Essential criteria
  • Varied experience of working in NHS hospital pharmacy
  • Experience of working in a variety of different sized teams
  • Experience of communicating with and advising all healthcare professionals on drug therapy
  • Experience of writing a wide range of documents including drug usage and audit reports, SOPs, protocols and guidelines and other information to healthcare professionals
  • Experience of audit and project work.
  • Drug expenditure analysis and reporting
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience of antibiotic stewardship
  • Previous experience of working in intensive care

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Excellent oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
  • Can use initiative appropriately
  • Innovative & creative problem identification and solving
  • Self-organisational and time management
  • Quality improvement techniques including clinical audit
  • Good general awareness of finance such as drug expenditure trends, horizon scanning, and cost improvement targets
  • Ability to plan, prioritise and organise own and others’ work to meet agreed deadlines
  • Influencing skills
  • Ability to use judgement to challenge inappropriate prescribing and influence prescribing decisions to enable optimal therapy
  • Ability to critically analyse prescriptions for clinical appropriateness, clinical risk, cost-effectiveness, adherence to local & national guidance and legality
Desirable criteria
  • Research skills
  • Health economics / pharmacoeconomics skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDDisability Confident - two yearsVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerNHS Pastoral CareStep into healthMenopause Workplace PledgeDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldPride In Veterans

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
Sarah Karthauser
Job title
Associate Director of Pharmacy - Weston
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01934 636363
Additional information

For informal enquiries and/or to arrange a visit, please contact Sarah Karthauser , Associate Director of Pharmacy - Weston on 01934 647060 or email [email protected]

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