Job summary
This post is a 12 month fixed term opportunity to develop your career in clinical pharmacy.

This post does require on-call, out of hours, weekend or bank holiday working.

We are seeking a highly skilled, motivated, and enthusiastic senior pharmacist. You will be responsible for leading, supporting and developing the clinical pharmacy service to ensure all our patients receive exceptional pharmaceutical care.

You will oversee the delivery of high quality, proactive and patient focused clinical pharmacy services in a range of specialties across the paediatric directorates.

This is an ideal opportunity for an experienced pharmacist who is keen to undertake a leadership role to further develop our patient focused clinical pharmacy service as well as utilise their clinical experience in a specialist setting.

Join our team and play your part to make a difference to the lives of our patients.

Main duties of the job
To lead, develop and deliver the clinical pharmacy service to ensure all patients receive outstanding pharmaceutical care

To co-ordinate the day-to-day duties, overseeing any additional duties required, identifying any gaps and devising a plan to manage them.

To supervise, motivate and support the team to ensure smooth and efficient flow of work.

To deputise for the Principal Pharmacist as required

To work with the Pharmacy and wider multidisciplinary teams to deliver service improvement projects to enhance patient care, efficiency, quality and safety across a number of clinical areas.

To attend multidisciplinary team and finance meetings to better patient care, safety and cost efficient use of medicines.

To write directorate reports, reporting on the finance, medicines safety and governance agenda

To support clinical governance processes across the divisions, investigating incidents where required and support medicines optimisation.

About us
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.

Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.

Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.

Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.

Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and personal specification to view the full details for this opportunity at the Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust.

When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and personal specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional details.

Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

Qualifications

• MPharm or equivalent degree
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacist
• Post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent experience

Desirable

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Pharmacist Independent Prescriber

Knowledge & Nature of Experience

• Minimum of three years post-qualification experience including substantial hospital experience.
• Experience of financial management and reporting.
• Experience of report writing.
• Experience of undertaking drug usage reviews and audit.
• Experience of preparing drug evaluations.
• Experience of formally interacting with senior clinicians and management.
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Appreciation of the relationship of the Department of Health, Public Health England and individual providers and commissioning organisations.
• Sound knowledge of current national standards and guidelines relevant to the safe prescribing of high risk medicines.
• Good oral and written communication skills for a variety of audiences including patients, parents/carers and healthcare professionals
• Provide and receive highly complex, sensitive and contentious information, negotiate with senior stakeholders on difficult and controversial issues, and present complex and sensitive information to large groups
• Ability to persuade senior staff of the respective merits of different options, innovation and new opportunities.
• Negotiate on difficult, complex and detailed issues.

Desirable

• Experience of developing business cases.
• Experience of project management.
• Experience of working across organisational boundaries.
• Understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications on engagement.

Analytical and Judgement Skills

• Ability to analyse data on medication use and make recommendations on prescribing practice
• Application of skills to optimise individual patient's medication
• Problem solving skills and the ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands
• Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options
• Able to make decisions on difficult issues where there may be a number of courses of action
• Ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise

Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge

• Input to strategic plans of internal and external teams
• Work with stakeholders to develop performance improvement plans
• Able to work effectively with colleagues as part of a team.
• Skills for managing relationships with a range of different stakeholders.
• Computer literacy including the ability to use Office applications such as Word and Excel

Personal Skills/Abilities and Attributes

• Effective organizational skills. Ability to prioritise a complex workload and work accurately under pressure adjusting plans to reflect changing circumstances
• Experience of managing and motivating a team of staff

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.

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).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).