Specialist Pharmacist - Women, Children and Young People
Division: Cancer and Core Clinical Services
Care Group: Pharmacy
Band: NHS AfC Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 - £64,750 per annum pro rata

Medway NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to offer an exciting opportunity to work as part of an expanding pharmacy team delivering care to Women, Children and Young People.

We are recruiting a Specialist Pharmacist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job
The specialist pharmacist will provide advanced clinical and professional pharmaceutical services to WCYP under the care of Medway NHS Foundation Trust. The aim is to promote optimal, safe and cost-effective use of medicines.

The post holder will be passionate about improving the pharmacy service delivered to WCYP. The role encompasses working closely with the Lead Pharmacist and other pharmacy team members to provide high quality care for NICU Level 3, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, shared care patients and to support the implementation of an Enhanced Level A POSCU service. You will be a core member of the pharmacy department, providing professional pharmaceutical governance, medicines safety, medicines information, medicines finance, education and training and medicines optimisation support to the team. You will have the opportunity to contribute to transformational change and enhance the delivery of care to our WC&YP population.

Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies and procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process. To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Job responsibilities

• To provide a high quality, safe, cost-effective and responsive clinical pharmacy service to wards and clinical areas in their speciality.
• To deputise for the lead clinical pharmacist in the care group, where appropriate.
• Work as part of a collaborative clinical pharmacy team, utilising collective expertise to proactively develop clinical pharmacy services.
• Be an integrated member of the specialist area, attending relevant meetings and advising on medicines governance, formulary, finance, safety and pathways.
• To aspire to work as an advanced practitioner to provide enhanced prescribing and assessment support to the care group in an area of specialist practice on wards and in clinic, as appropriate. Training and guidance to achieve this will be given, if required.
• Line manage and contribute to the training of pharmacy staff and the multi-disciplinary team working in their speciality.
• Review medicines use and expenditure data, in liaison with relevant members of the specialist area to explain, interpret and horizon scan changes in medicines use and expenditure.
• To develop a research and audit portfolio.

Essential Qualifications

• Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent
• Higher degree/Diploma in clinical pharmacy (or equivalent experience)
• Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice

Desirable Qualifications

• Independent prescribing qualification

Essential Knowledge

• Demonstration of an ability to develop a highly specialist knowledge in a therapeutic area
• Expert clinical knowledge and skills relevant to area of practice, or demonstrated ability to do so

Essential Experience

• Previous relevant clinical experience
• Experience of working with healthcare professions outside of pharmacy
• Experience in providing and receiving highly complex and contentious information

Essential Skills

• Demonstrates ability to identify problems, analyse root cause and propose solutions for complex problems
• Able to plan, organise and manage services

Values based questions

• Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a 'can do' attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome

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. Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.