Band 7 Senior Support Pharmacist - Healthcare of Older People

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a proactive and dynamic individual with vision, drive and enthusiasm to join the Pharmacy team as the Senior Support Pharmacist for Healthcare of Older People on the Good Hope Hospital site of UHB Trust., You will deliver a high-quality specialist clinical pharmacy service, and there will be a strong emphasis on supporting you in developing leadership and mentoring skills to the next level.

You will be introduced to core directorate activities - reporting and analysis of medicines expenditure, clinical governance and risk management activities, including review of PGDs and relevant policies. You will have the opportunity to train clinically to provide a neonatal intensive care service and neonatal parenteral nutrition.

In addition, you will take on enhanced roles relating to education and training, such as developing training programmes and involvement with training of new doctors. You will have responsibility for the supervision of less experienced members of the team including junior pharmacists and trainee pharmacists.

You will be a highly motivated individual and a team player with well-developed communication skills and a desire to use your knowledge, skills and experience to improve patient care and influence healthcare professionals in the best use of medicines.

You will join a team of clinical pharmacists who provide the on-call service with a back-up provided by the Specialist and Advanced Clinical Pharmacists.

If you are a motivated and enthusiastic clinical pharmacist with post-registration hospital experience of covering a range of specialties, or can demonstrate the equivalent level of knowledge, and are ready for the next step in your career then this could be the job for you.

Dependent on experience, this role is offered as a development role and is open to candidates who have completed at least 2-3 early year pharmacist rotations and have started the clinical diploma or who consistently meet the level expected of a post-registration foundation pharmacist within the RPS Newly Qualified Pharmacist Pathway. You will move into the full Senior Support Pharmacist for Healthcare of Older People role once you have completed the required competencies to demonstrate you are working at a senior support level.

Applicants with 12 months post-registration hospital experience will be appointed in a development post under Agenda for Change Annex 21 (payment at 75% of the maximum band 7 pay), uplifted to the band 7 starting pay as per Agenda for Change on completion of the first year of clinical diploma or NHSE/RPS Newly Qualified Pharmacist Pathway. All applicants will then be given the opportunity to progress onto the independent prescribing course.

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