About this role
Job summary
Are you a qualified pharmacist looking to significantly develop your skills in Acute & Emergency Medicine?
We are building a strong team of pharmacists within our Emergency Services Directorate at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and would love to hear from you.
In this role, you'll provide specialist pharmaceutical expertise to acutely unwell patients on the Acute Medical Unit. As your skills and experience grow, with the support of a senior pharmacist, you'll also extend this provision to patients within the Emergency Department.
You'll benefit from comprehensive support for your professional development. A team of senior pharmacists, under the guidance of a Principal Pharmacist ACP, will help you achieve your goals across key areas including:
Clinical practice Leadership Education Research This is a newly established role within a progressive team. We are focused on enhancing patient care at the front door of the hospital by providing high-quality pharmaceutical care, with a shared goal of improving health outcomes for our population.
If you're ready to take on a key role in a developing service and advance your expertise, we encourage you to apply.
Main duties of the job
To partake in specialised clinical pharmacy duties on the Acute & Emergency Medicine areas, ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken.
Supervise/provide professional support to junior pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, students and support staff.
Managed by senior pharmacist responsible for acute & emergency medicine with oversight from the principal pharmacist for the area.
Undertakes postgraduate clinical training where relevant to the post.
To act as an independent prescriber once registered with the GPhC in line with local policy and entered in the trust NMP register.
About us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Job description Job responsibilities
To provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to wards and departments providing a medicines management service directly to patients with support and training from experienced staff.
To participate in the pharmacy dispensary, late night and oncall rotas as necessary.
To provide advice to medical and nursing staff on drug usage, and encourage compliance with the hospital/health economy formulary to ensure safe, rational , and economic prescribing.
To provide a professional lead to pharmacy technical and support staff managing medicines in designated ward areas.
To integrate into the multidisciplinary team and attend ward rounds making proactive interventions in individual patients therapy by providing information on drug related issues and acting as a Pharmacy contact.
To provide advice to patients on the correct use of medication and ensure that directions associated with medications are understood, including the main side-effects of the medications.
To identify drug related admissions and where appropriate follow through with a yellow card report to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Resolve medicines related problems associated with individual patients between primary and secondary care.
To support senior pharmacists contributing/providing pharmaceutical advice to the multidisciplinary audit of treatment guidelines.
To support senior pharmacists providing pharmaceutical advice at directorate level.
To maintain an up to date knowledge of developments in medical and pharmaceutical practice, as part of their own continuing professional development.
The full job description and person specification are included with this advert.
Person Specification
Qualification Essential
Registration with GPhC as a pharmacist Ability to demonstrate clinical experience and competence in acute & emergency medicine or a broad range of medical and surgical specialities relevant to post Able to communicate well with a wide range of staff from a range of disciplines from both within and outside the NHS Ability to manage own time effectively and prioritise appropriately. Ability to work both on own initiative and to co-operate within a team to achieve desired outcomes
Desirable
Experience in supervising, training and assessing staff Completed the pharmacy clinical diploma or equivalent (score 2 if commenced but not completed) Independent prescriber or working towards it (score 2 if commenced but not completed) Experience of implementing and delivering the objectives of cost/service improvement programmes.
Experience Essential
Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
Desirable
Evidence of participation in service improvement projects
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Address New Cross Pharmacy
Wolverhampton Road
Wolverhampton
WV10 0QP
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)