Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner - Adult Critical Care
☞ Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Update day: 11-05-2024
Location: Nottingham East Midlands
Category: Health / Medical Care Doctors / Nurse Part-time
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Job type: Full-time, Part-time
Salary: £56,164 - £65,262 a year
Job content
Band 8b
- Full time
- Part time
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to work within our adult Critical Care team at NUH. This new role will work alongside our existing Advanced Pharmacist Practitioner / Team Leader to deliver excellent patient care to patients within our Critical Care units across both campuses.
In this role you will use your prescribing qualification and skills to work within our supportive MDT to provide a demonstrable impact on patient care.
In this role you will take a lead on the delivery of education and training (both within Pharmacy and to the MDT), practice-based research and clinical supervision. You will further develop links with the University of Nottingham and will act as a clinical and professional role model within the team.
You will manage the Chief Pharmacy Technician in the team and work with them to ensure that high quality medicines management and governance systems are in place in our clinical areas.
You will act as a clinical role model within the team, delivering a patient-facing clinical service as part of your role. You will drive the development and delivery of the highest quality of pharmaceutical care and be supported by the Pharmacy Department and Directorate Leadership Team to continually improve our service.
Main duties of the job
To strategically develop and lead the provision of expert clinical practice: promoting safe and evidenced-based practice and contributing to improved clinical outcomes and services to patients
To be a Trust-wide opinion leader for pharmaceutical matters relating to the speciality; including providing professional leadership and support to clinical pharmacists.
To lead, plan, support and undertake own clinical audit and research within the speciality.
To contribute to service development within the speciality.
To provide specialist training and education on medication related topics to the multi-disciplinary team.
To take full part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holidays duties and partake in clinical pharmacy duties
Working for our organisation
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest acute teaching hospital Trusts. We have achieved a national and international reputation for many of our specialist services including stroke, renal, neurosciences, cancer services and trauma and are at the forefront of many research programmes.
The pharmacy department at NUH is forward thinking and constantly implementing innovative ways of working to deliver the best possible patient care. We continue to extend the ideal model of delivering medicines optimisation and pharmaceutical care where pharmacists are fully integrated in to the medical teams, supported by a team of medicines management technicians and assistants.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please fully review the attached job description and person specification.
To strategically develop and lead the provision of expert clinical practice: promoting safe and evidenced-based practice and contributing to improved clinical outcomes and services to patients
To be a Trust-wide opinion leader for pharmaceutical matters relating to the speciality; including providing professional leadership and support to clinical pharmacists.
To lead, plan, support and undertake own clinical audit and research within the speciality.
To contribute to service development within the speciality.
To provide specialist training and education on medication related topics to the multi-disciplinary team.
To take full part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holidays duties and partake in clinical pharmacy duties
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- B.Pharm / BSc (Pharmacy) or MPharm.
- Diploma in clinical pharmacy or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Independent Prescriber
- Ability to credential (or already credentialled) at APF level
Desirable criteria
- Leadership and.or management qualifications.
- Other relevant qualifications
Professional registrations
Essential criteria
- GPhC registered.
Desirable criteria
- Member of relevant national specialist pharmacist group.
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (MRPharmS)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad knowledge base of a wide range of clinical areas.
- Extensive previous clinical pharmacy experience (post-registration)
- Extensive experience of delivering clinical pharmacy service to a specialty - including specialist review of medicines
- Expert knowledge of national policy, strategy, guidance and evidence-base relating to the specialty
- Experience of developing and implementing medicines-related policies and managing risk
- Experience of leading projects and managing change
- Critical Care experience
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of published research.
- Experience of line management / mentoring
- Experience of working on national groups
- Experience of leading and delivering clinical pharmacy service to an area
Communication and relationship
Essential criteria
- Proven ability to influence and negotiate with relevant senior clinicians, managers and stakeholders.
- Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills, both verbal and written – must be able to communicate highly complex drug or medicine related information to prescribers, clinicians, patients, relatives, relevant Trust committees and other stakeholders. Patients may have language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities; other professionals may challenge advice.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of writing compelling business cases or case of need for service development.
Analytical and Judgement skill
Essential criteria
- Experience of assessing and minimising risk associated with service provision and within medication processes.
- Experience in making judgements involving highly complex facts, which require analysis, interpretation and options appraisal e.g. drug expenditure.
- Evidence of incorporating innovative and ‘best practice’ into current practice.
- Works with a high level of professional autonomy
Desirable criteria
- Assessing/adjudicating at national level.
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Bring your whole self to work for us at NUH. We love diversity and we value your difference, your unique skills, knowledge and experience. Becoming one of our people may realise your potential, helping us to raise our performance in delivering world class healthcare to the diverse patient populations we serve.
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are currently under-represented at NUH.
Covid-19 vaccination: remains the best way to protect yourself, family, colleagues and our patients/service users from the Covid-19 virus. We continue to encourage our current and potential colleagues to get vaccinated. For helpful advice and information about the Covid-19 vaccination and how to access visit: https://nottsccg.nhs.uk/covid-19/covid-19-vaccinations/
Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.
Easy read application: if you have a disability and find it difficult to complete our online application form, you can apply via our easy read application which you can find on the intranet https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/easy-read-job-application
Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.
Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.
At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.
Skilled Workers Visa: We welcome applications from individuals who require a skilled worker visa in line with the Home Office regulations. NON-UK/NON SETTLED candidates may not be appointed, if a suitably qualified and skilled UK/SETTLED candidate is successful at interview stage as it is unlikely that the Trust is able to satisfy the Home Office Visa requirements
ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate all ID and right to work documentation such as passports, visa’s and driving license through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.
Consent:
- Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Departmentconfidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
- Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£41.90 for enhanced and £21.90 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.
Deadline: 25-06-2024
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