Band 7 Senior Support Pharmacist - Severe Asthma

Job summary

Do you have the vision and enthusiasm to help us deliver a modern pharmacy service?

We are seeking a motivated and experienced Pharmacist to join our Clinical Pharmacy Team based at Heartlands Hospital site providing a clinical service to the Severe Asthma speciality. This is a year rotation into Severe Asthma to support the service. After the 12 months you will embark on our senior support pharmacist rotational program.

The successful applicant will become part of a large clinical pharmacy team. They will work closely with the Specialist Pharmacist for Respiratory Medicine, medical practitioners and specialist nursing team members. Through managing and supporting Clinical Support Pharmacists and clinical pharmacy technicians (CPTs) you will work to support and improve patient stay in hospital whilst retaining direct patient contact.

You will need an ability to develop effective working relationships, to challenge and to prioritise your own work as well as the work of the team.

University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is an incredibly rewarding place to work. You have the opportunity to make a real difference to patients and their families, and the wider community.

Some of the benefits of joining our team:

• Excellent learning and development opportunities completing a structured development program to be able to deliver a specialist service and be embedded within the clinical area.
• Dedicated protected learning during work hours to help facilitate your development.

Main duties of the job

You will aim to reduce referrals and attendance at the Emergency Department; support proactive safe and timely discharge of complex inpatients to community care; and deliver care based around individual patient needs.

Key duties Include:

• Be an integral member of the multidisciplinary virtual ward team.
• To provide clinical pharmacy service to virtual ward patients to either avoid hospital admission, or to support with an early supported discharge from hospital.
• Arrange communication aids such as verbal handover/ written documentation on System One or EMIS.
• Prioritise all incoming virtual ward and pharmacy work on a daily basis, including responding quickly and appropriately to urgent queries, referring to the team where appropriate.
• Attend multidisciplinary meetings as stipulated by the virtual ward and pharmacy team regularly to discuss workflow.
• When suitably qualified, to prescribe medicines for agreed patients within their capacity of an Independent Prescriber.
• Produce a summary of key achievements and audits completed/pending on a quarterly basis.
• To understand and deliver Cost Improvement Programs (CIP) to support the speciality and department. In addition completion of audits and Quality Improvement Project (QIP) to present to the speciality meetings will be supported.
• You will join a team of clinical pharmacists who provide the on-call service with a back-up provided by the Specialist and Advanced Clinical Pharmacists.

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:

• Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can.
• Offer 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.

Date posted: 17 February 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £46,148 to £52,809 a year

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number: 304-9005101

Job locations: Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green E, Birmingham, West Midlands, B9 5SS

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.

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration.

Employer details: University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green E, Birmingham, West Midlands, B9 5SS.

Employer's website: https://www.uhb.nhs.uk/jobs.htm