Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust are searching for an experienced and driven Respiratory Pharmacist to join their highly skilled team.
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
The Role:
Leads the provision and development of clinical pharmacy services to the respiratory directorate in accordance with the pharmacy care group:
- Provides pharmaceutical advice and develops Clinical Pharmacy Services to Respiratory in order to optimise patient benefit from treatment with medicines and ensure the safe, efficacious and cost-effective use of medicines.
- Undertakes risk management and ensures compliance with medicines legislation.
- To be responsible for financial savings within respiratory medicine
- To deliver an education and training programme relevant to role
Key Dimensions
- Capital and Revenue Budgets – Contributory impact on the medicine’s budgets for Respiratory
- Staff Numbers – Supervises and manages rotational pharmacists and tutor trainee pharmacists
Shared Core Functions
- Proactively and positively contribute to the achievement of deliverables through individual and team effort. Manage the production of the required deliverables and control risks. Support team members to deliver on their functionally relevant objectives through offering advice, guidance and support as appropriate.
- Ensure that resources are used effectively and in accordance with agreed procedures
- Liaison with Senior Professionals and related functions to ensure that work is neither overlooked nor duplicated
- Build and sustain effective communications with other roles involved in the shared services as required
- Maintain and continuously improve specialist knowledge in an aspect of Health Service which significantly contributes to the Trust’s stated objectives & aims
- Establish and maintain strategic links with a range of external partners/stakeholders or manage the links made through the team. Engage with external partners/stakeholders to gain their necessary level of contribution & commitment to the successful delivery of your work.
- Undertake evidence-based practice for either developments relating to Trust work or opportunities for Trust involvement around health issues
- Increase the level of knowledge & skills within the Trust through documenting key learning’s and supporting others to develop their professional abilities.
- Dissemination of knowledge, taking full responsibility for technical accuracy and reliability and being sensitive to the wider implications of that dissemination.
- Ensure that expertise is seen as a resource within and outside the Trust and form working partnerships with government departments, national agencies and key stakeholders internationally, nationally, regionally and across sectors.
Requirements:
- Masters or Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy
- Completed or studying for Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
- NMP qualification or working towards and eligible for training
- Completed or studying for Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
- Hospital pharmacy experience involving clinical pharmacy services
- Participation in weekly dispensary cover, Bank Holiday and weekend working (to demonstrate maintenance of basic pharmacy services and personal competency)
- Good interpersonal skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Demonstrable ability to prioritise, organise and manage workload in an environment that has frequent disruptions
- Demonstrable ability to motivate self and others
- Demonstrable ability to work in a team
- Demonstrable confidence as a clinical pharmacist
- Demonstrable ability to use initiative
- Demonstrable ability to maintain quality standards
- Sound knowledge of acute medical therapeutics
- Experience of writing clinical guidelines
- Experience of leading a team
- Experience of leading service development
- Role model
- Prepared to work flexibly in multidisciplinary environment
- Ability to remain calm and work under pressure
- Able to work flexible hours to meet the needs of the service
We are so grateful for the commitment and devotion of our Bank Staff, so are pleased to offer the following benefits:
- Flexible working hours
- Weekly salary
- Priority of shifts over all agency workers
- Competitive pay
Apply now for this fantastic opportunity by uploading your CV, and a member of our recruitment team will be in touch.
Bank Partners is an employment agency/employment business (as defined by the Conduct of Employment Agencies and Employment Businesses Regulations 2003) and is acting on behalf of its client in relation to this vacancy.