Band 7 Senior Support Pharmacist ITU and Parenteral Nutrition

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000

Job description

Band 7 Senior Support Pharmacist ITU and Parenteral Nutrition

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

We are seeking an enthusiastic and dedicated pharmacist to join our critical care, surgery, and nutrition teams. This role involves supporting the provision of both clinical and operational pharmacy services to acutely unwell patients. This is an exciting opportunity featuring extended rotations in various specialities, including general surgery, gastrointestinal (GI) surgery, the nutrition support team, critical care, and burns. This position is designed to help you develop additional skills in preparation for progression to specialist pharmacist roles.

As a member of our clinical pharmacy team, you will collaborate closely with specialist pharmacists in intensive care medicine and gastroenterology & nutrition, as well as with consultants and ward managers. We offer the opportunity to enhance your clinical pharmacy skills in supporting acutely unwell patients, including those with complex trauma, liver, cardiac, and burns conditions, as well as transplant patients.

In your role with the nutrition support team, you will participate in ward rounds, engage in integrated pharmacist parenteral nutrition rounds, and provide education to both patients and healthcare professionals on pharmaceutical issues.

Our fully integrated electronic prescribing and patient monitoring system enables us to deliver enhanced pharmaceutical care across a wide range of specialities. This system supports our commitment to providing high-quality, patient-centred care.

Main duties of the job

1. To partake in specialised clinical pharmacy duties on the critical care units, burns and surgical wards at QEHB, ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken.
2. To develop effective working relationships, to challenge and to prioritise your own work as well of the work of the team.
3. To assist in providing a specialist pharmaceutical service to tertiary services including the provision of education and training, procedures, protocols and medicines usage information.
4. To ensure that through the provision of pharmacy services and advice to patients, carers and other healthcare professionals, there is safe and effective use of medicines.
5. To provide leadership and directorate/service support roles to the burns speciality and specialist support to the nutritional support team/surgical specialities on a rotational basis.
6. To support junior staff members within the department.
7. To take full part in clinical/dispensary rota, weekend rota and bank holiday duties.
8. To take part in the support of pharmacy out-of-hours service (first on-call duties).
9. Cross site critical care cover may be required with prior notice.
10. Previous experience in critical care and/or TPN is desirable but not essential as you will be supported in completing in house training. UHB prides itself on its investment in staff both in terms of developing career skills but also its commitment to staff health and wellbeing.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

1. Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can.
2. Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job responsibilities

*Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
• Has completed or is near completion (within the next 6 months) a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification.
• To be willing to work towards a non-medical prescribing qualification.
• Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• 18-24 months post-registration experience within hospital pharmacy.
• Has commenced a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification (applicable for Annex 21 roles).

Experience

• Post-registration work experience as a pharmacist in hospital pharmacy, covering a range of specialties, or the ability to demonstrate the equivalent level of knowledge.
• Previous participation in multi-disciplinary team.
• Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for providing high quality pharmaceutical care.
• Experience of teaching/presenting to other healthcare professionals/patients.
• Commitment to own Continuing Professional Development (CPD).
• Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in hospital pharmacy.
• Knowledge of national initiatives and guidelines, e.g. NICE, NSF.
• Possesses knowledge of available resources to answer Medicines Information queries.
• Able to work with drug budget information.
• Demonstrates good knowledge of hospital clinical pharmacy and current issues.

Additional Criteria

• Professional manner.
• Well-motivated and reliable.
• Able to work with all grades of staff.
• Capacity to work calmly under pressure.
• Ability to travel across all Trust sites as required by job role.

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.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust