Senior Pharmacist for Education, Training and Quality Improvement (NHS AfC: Band 8a) - Pharmacy[...]

Main area Pharmacy Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (To include additional weekend and bank holiday working) Job ref 224-PA20240801841-B

Employer The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Pharmacy Department Town Gobowen, Oswestry, Shropshire Salary £53,755 - £60,504 pa Salary period Yearly Closing 15/11/2024 23:59

Senior Pharmacist for Education, Training and Quality Improvement

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Here at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Trust, we are very proud of our reputation for providing outstanding care to our patients. Our continued success is accomplished through the skills and expertise of our staff, which is underpinned by our values: Friendly, Caring, Excellence, Professional and Respect. If your values align to ours, and you would like to join us in aspiring to deliver world class patient care, we would love to hear from you.

Job overview

Our Pharmacy Department are looking for an experienced hospital pharmacist, seeking new challenges in a clinically-orientated pharmacy service.

Are you a forward thinking individual who has the vision to deliver projects and become involved in multidisciplinary patient care? Are you looking for a wide-ranging and stimulating pharmacy experience?

The successful candidate will have well developed communication, interpersonal and IT skills, a desire for self-development and organisational skills. If you are enthusiastic and keen to make a positive contribution to the care of our patients, we would like to hear from you.

** Banding subject to agenda for change evaluation **

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Main duties of the job

This will be a senior post responsible for leading on Governance, Education and Training

Ideally you will be an independent prescriber or be prepared to undergo the relevant training. This is a unique opportunity to be part of a specialist pharmacy team working closely with multi-disciplinary clinical teams including consultants, registrars, specialist nurse practitioners, dieticians and psychologists.

Our friendly department provides an environment that supports innovation, learning and team working and encourages individuals to develop in their role. As a department we continually aim to improve patient care and to promote professional development. We are a forward thinking department having recently invested in electronic pharmaceutical care planning. To meet the needs of our patients we provide ward-based clinical pharmacy and have a team of independent prescribers.

Our aim is to aspire to deliver world class patient care, and we want talented, dedicated and passionate people to help us achieve this.

Working for our organisation

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic NHS Trust (RJAH)is one of the leading orthopaedic hospitals in the country, with some of the highest levels of staff and patient satisfaction, as well as a strong reputation for research and innovation.

Joining RJAH is more than just a job – we want our people to have the best opportunities to thrive in their role.

We have a range of fantastic staff benefits on offer to everyone who joins RJAH and you'll have access to outstanding professional development opportunities and state-of-the-art facilities – including our recently-opened £6 million Headley Court Veterans’ Orthopaedic Centre (the first unit of its kind in the UK).

RJAH has strong links with a range of universities including Staffordshire, Keele, Glyndwr, Chester and Birmingham.

The hospital is located on a site outside Oswestry, just off the A5. The nearest train station is in Gobowen, approximately two miles from the hospital. The station is part of the Chester to Birmingham line.

We are based in North Shropshire, close to the border with North and Mid Wales. It is one of the most attractive parts of the country, with a rich historic culture and excellent transport links. It offers outstanding opportunities for anyone who enjoys an outdoor lifestyle or is looking to raise a family.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Be responsible for the management and delivery of Pharmacy education and training
• Facilitate and deliver training and act as a designated supervisor for trainee and foundation level pharmacists
• Develop education and training materials including reports relating to the management of the medicines in the Trust and undertake research and audit to support innovative practice and sustain robust medicines management systems and processes.
• Manager related training provision to all operation staff within the Trust.
• Support the department with clinical activities ensuring accuracy, legality, safety and efficacy of prescribed medication in line with local and national procedures
• Support with pharmacy practice-based audit and research within the department.
• Act as an operational lead in any relevant aspects of regulatory audit (internal and external).
• Support the medication safety agenda, collaborate on monitoring system and provision of information to support a reduction in avoidable harm resulting from inappropriate medicines use across the Trust.
• Work to deliver the medicines clinical governance plans which support safe and effective pharmacy and medicines optimisation services to patients. This involves close liaison with the medicines safety officer and multidisciplinary teams working across the Trust.
• Lead serious incident reviews where appropriate and provide a quality assurance function for incident reviews involving medicines.
• Support multidisciplinary teams to investigate incidents to enable the root cause to be understood and appropriate plans to be established to mitigate future risks.

Person specification

Education and qualifications

• Master’s degree in pharmacy
• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Registered as a pharmacist with The General Pharmaceutical Council
• Keeping professionally up to date including CPD
• Appropriate Research Qualification e.g. MSc in clinical pharmacy, or PhD
• Risk management or clinical governance qualification
• Qualified as a non-medical prescriber
• Appropriate teaching qualification i.e. Member of Institute of Learning & Teaching or PGCE
• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

• Significant and relevant post registration experience in NHS hospital pharmacy & clinical Pharmacy service delivery
• Experience of medicines related policy & development
• Highly experienced as qualified pharmacist
• Experience of working across departmental and organisation boundaries to deliver specific targets and improve services for patients.
• Working with outside commissioning and quality groups and understanding the requirements for a comprehensive quality and safety agenda.
• Knowledge of financial systems and structures within the NHS
• Knowledge of regulatory and licensing controls related to medicines
• Demonstrates knowledge and application of the patient safety agenda relating to medicines
• Experience in wider Trust delivery and implementation of risk reduction strategies e.g. NPSA medication alerts
• Knowledge of NHS structures for Commissioning and Quality
• Knowledge systems relating to medicines and patient safety.
• Previous experience as an education and training pharmacist
• Experience of managing a team
• Experience of service development

Skills and Competencies

• Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for service including quality and audit
• Good communication, verbal and written skills e.g. SOPs & reports
• Good clinical knowledge backed up by extensive ward/practice-based experience
• Able to prioritise on workload, delegate appropriately and manage time effectively
• Good IT skills (Excel, Word and PowerPoint)
• Evidence of strategic planning ability
• Able to deal with unpredictable workload including that associated with on-call
• Deal calmly and appropriately with emotional situations related to complaints, incidents
• Use of IT systems to generate reports, analysis or review of medicine usage
• Knowledge of Codes of Practice / Customer Care / NHS plan for Pharmacy
• Knowledge of wider NHS agenda and issues
• Knowledge of Health and Safety at Work, COSHH, National and Local guidelines

Knowledge (including specialist or technical knowledge required)

• Good range of pharmaceutical knowledge especially regarding musculoskeletal disorders
• Able to interpret complex data
• Good interpretation of current pharmacy / NHS issues
• Able to think independently

Personal Qualities

• Acts on own initiative with the appropriate level of supervision
• Able to work under pressure and with variable demands
• Good team member and a good leader
• Have good initiative, planning and time management ability
• Positive, enthusiastic and able to demonstrate visionary thinking
• Works well in multidisciplinary teams

Other

• Presentable in professional setting
• Able to cope with challenges of managing aspects of Pharmacy services.
• Ability to sustain concentration for long periods
• Driving licence
• Able to work unsocial hours when required

Important

Your application form must include a complete record of your employment history. Please explain any gaps in your employment/education history and reasons for these gaps. The Trust maintains the right to withdraw an employment offer or terminate employment if it is later found that an application for employment contained false, mis-leading or inaccurate information. For the avoidance of doubt this would include omissions of previous periods of employment or reasons given for gaps in employment.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this job advert early where sufficient applications have been received.

For Information

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHSFT embraces diversity, equality and inclusion and our aim is to be diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability and ethnicity.

We are committed to ensuring disabled workers aren’t disadvantaged when applying for and doing their jobs and offer an interview to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the advertised post. Reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act 2010 will be considered upon request.

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