Band 7 Hospital Pharmacist inBirmingham inBirmingham PUBLISHED
WED 20 NOV 2024
Ideal candidates will have a clinical diploma or relevant experience in hospital pharmacy, strong communication skills, and the ability to manage their workload effectively. The role includes a commitment to on-call duties, and both part-time (22.5 hours) and full-time (37.5 hours) positions are available. The hospital emphasises patient experience and safety, fostering an environment for professional growth and development.
- Are you an experienced pharmacist looking for a challenge in a new working environment, to broaden your clinical experience?
- Would you like to be part of a dedicated team committed to providing the best patient care?
- Are you looking for a part-time role as a clinical pharmacist
- Are you a band 6 pharmacist who has or is about to complete their clinical diploma?
- Or a band 6 pharmacist currently undertaking a clinical diploma, looking to gain experience in a different NHS setting?
If the answer is 'Yes', then we may have the job for you.
Summary:
Due to staff progression an opportunity has arisen for clinical pharmacist role in our patient focused pharmacy service.
This position is based at Moseley Hall Hospital, with full-time hours available. There are a variety of clinical specialisms covered including Elderly Care, Neurology and Stroke rehabilitation.
As a clinical pharmacist you will specialise in one of these clinical areas, joining our team of pharmacists and technicians providing medicines optimisation support and advice to our adult inpatient wards.
You will have the opportunity to experience a variety of areas and continue to challenge yourself to grow as a pharmacist.
Our team endeavours to provide a comprehensive, efficient and safe pharmacy service to all clinical areas. This is to ensure we are consistently contributing to quality improvements in both prescribing and overall patient care.
About you:
We are looking for a friendly, dedicated and motivated clinical pharmacist to join our expanding team.
Working alongside clinical colleagues you will be integrated in to the ward teams, attending multidisciplinary meetings and consultant ward rounds to support the pharmaceutical needs of patients under your care.
You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills, in addition to being able to organise your workload to prioritise your time. You will also have the ability to work under pressure, whilst ensuring that all patients experience out Trust values whilst in our care.
Previous experience in any of the clinical areas listed is desirable, where you be the nominated lead pharmacist for this specialism.
The ideal candidate will have experience in pro-actively influencing prescribing within a hospital environment and have attained or have completed at least 1 year of a postgraduate clinical diploma.
An on-call commitment is part of the role.
For further details on the main responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description and Person specification document. Please see the attached supporting document.
About us
The location:
Moseley Hall Hospital is a community hospital within Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust.We offer sub-acute care with admissions coming via the local acute and specialist NHS trusts or direct from the community. A core part of our role is rehabilitation to enable patients to transfer home or to an appropriate care setting, on clinically appropriate medication.
At Moseley Hall Hospital our sub-acute elderly care patient cohort is currently held across 3 of our wards. We also have a specialist stroke ward and an Inpatient Neurological Rehabilitation Unit (INRU) which provides brain injury rehabilitation services for both inpatients and outpatients.
About us:
We are a small, friendly forward thinking team that is currently developing our pharmacy service. Future projects include the introduction of EPMA of across the Trust.
Patient experience and safety is at the centre of everything we do. Support, mentoring and further training will be provided to the successful candidates, to ensure that you fulfil your potential in this new challenging role. You will be actively encouraged to contribute to service development and quality improvement. This role will provide the opportunity to develop leadership and managerial skills. All team members are allocated development time each week.
We also have the advantage of free and plentiful on-site car parking, with no space restrictions.
Position available:
Part-Time 22.5 hours per week considered
Full time 37.5 hours per week considered
For further information about individual roles please contact Sadia Mahmood, Head Pharmacist via email or phone on
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