Job summary
Are you looking for a role where you can use your clinical skills to the full? Would you like to shape and develop a medicines advice service across University Hospitals Northamptonshire (UHN)?
We are looking for a pharmacist with strong clinical and leadership skills to manage our well-established service, ensuring that it develops to meet the changing needs of our staff and patients. You will have the opportunity to shape its future direction with support from experienced managers who firmly believe in its value.
We would be delighted if you would like to come and visit the department and meet the team.
Main duties of the job
You will be based at Northampton General Hospital, leading a team of pharmacists and technician to provide medicines advice to patients and healthcare professionals across Northampton and Kettering General Hospitals.
You will also co-ordinate training in medicines information retrieval, literature evaluation and enquiry answering for pharmacy staff from both hospitals.
Although the post does not have a regular ward clinical commitment, you will develop close relationships with the Pharmacy Clinical teams across UHN, to support their information needs.
You will keep patient contact by running our Patient Discharge Medicines Helpline.
You will have the opportunity to develop skills in writing medicines bulletins, guidelines and shared care to facilitate safe transfer of prescribing to primary care.
As a valued member of the Pharmacy team, you will be expected to contribute to the wider Medicines Optimisation agenda, Pharmacy service evaluation and development.
Throughout our department, we have a very strong team ethos and you will have good support from your peers, the senior pharmacists and technicians.
Enthusiasm, a strong team spirit and good communication will be required as well as a desire to have the patient's safety at the foremost of everything you do.
Previous experience in Medicines Information is desirable however you will be supported to develop this expertise if needed.
About us
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University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) brings together Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust. As a group, we are committed to improving services for our communities through collaboration, modernising care delivery and striving for excellence. Working together enables us to share expertise, strengthen services and create greater opportunities, and there may be a requirement to work across sites depending on service needs.
Our Excellence Values are Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Integrity and Courage. UHN welcomes applications from all backgrounds and is committed to an inclusive working environment. We are proud signatories of the Armed Forces Covenant and hold the Gold Award under the Employer Recognition Scheme. Candidates who identify as members of the Armed Forces community and meet the essential criteria will be guaranteed an interview.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a full list of all roles and responsibilities please refer to the attached job description and person specification
Person Specification
Education, Training and Qualifications
Essential
- GPhC registration
- Post-graduate qualification
Desirable
- Member of RPSGB
- Completion of UKMI Training & Competency Assessments/Equivalent experience
- CPD Portfolio
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Recent experience of working in Medicines Information
- Significant experience as a clinical pharmacist, to include recent hospital experience
- Staff Supervision/Experience of staff training
- Production and implementation of 'active information'
- Audit
- Good Clinical knowledge
- Understanding of UKMI Exec role and standards
- Facilitating Change/Change Management
- Risk Management
- Appraisals/Personal Development
Desirable
- Formulary work
Skills
Essential
- Excellent communication, written and oral
- Ability to prioritise and delegate
- Computer skills; databases, excel
- Ability to work alone or as a team member
- Critical appraisal skills
Desirable
- Search Strategies
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Northampton General Hospital
Address
University Hospitals of Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire
Northampton
NN1 5BD
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.northamptongeneral.nhs.uk/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)
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