Band 7 Hospital Pharmacist | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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., 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.

• 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?, 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.

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands. If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.