Clinical Pharmacist

+ To lead, develop and deliver the clinical pharmacy service to ensure all patients receive outstanding pharmaceutical care
+ To supervise, motivate and support the team to ensure smooth and efficient flow of work.
+ To work with the Pharmacy and wider multidisciplinary teams to deliver quality improvement projects to enhance patient care, efficiency and safety across a number of clinical areas.
+ Provide exceptional customer service, addressing enquiries and concerns of patients, families, and healthcare staff with professionalism and empathy.
+ Work in close coordination with pharmacists and healthcare professionals to ensure proper medication management for paediatric patients
+ Utilise pharmacy software systems to process prescriptions and maintain accurate documentation, + Provide a clinical pharmacy service to allocated clinics to ensure that medicines prescribed are safe, economic and appropriate to individual patient needs.
+ Monitor and review individual patient prescriptions to ensure safe/appropriate prescribing.
+ Provide professional supervision in the outpatient dispensary to protect patient safety in line with the current Pharmacist's Code of Ethics. This includes being able to intervene and advise on the dispensing of outpatient prescriptions and to professionally assess the suitability of each prescription for the patient.
+ Operationally manage the dispensary as required in the dispensing of medicines, utilising the pharmacy computer system for data recording. To ensure the timely supply of medicines to inpatients and outpatients.
+ Contribute to the development of procedures and protocols relevant to the role e.g. clinical pharmacy procedures, relevant dispensary based procedures.
+ Lead, develop and deliver the clinical pharmacy service to ensure all patients receive outstanding pharmaceutical care.
+ Co- ordinate the day-to-day duties, overseeing any additional duties required, identifying any gaps and devising a plan to manage them.
+ Supervise, motivate and support the team to ensure smooth and efficient flow of work.
+ To deputise for the Principal Pharmacist as required
+ Work with the Pharmacy and wider multidisciplinary teams to deliver service improvement projects to enhance patient care, efficiency, quality and safety across a number of clinical areas.
As a Trust employee you are required to comply with all legislation and guidance relating to safeguarding children and adults with care and support needs, and promoting their health and welfare. You are required to inform the Head of Safeguarding of any safeguarding concerns about your own children or children you live with. This information will be treated in a confidential manner.

Are you fed up with being fed up at work?
At The Medicine Chest (TMC) pharmacy we believe in breaking the mould and doing things differently! We are situated in the heart of the city within the Birmingham Children's Hospital and offer a world-class specialist paediatric service to over 900,000 children annually. Our new branch in the Birmingham Women's' Hospital, adjacent to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Edgbaston, offers outstanding specialist care to Women of all backgrounds and we would like to invite you to challenge your beliefs of what pharmacy teams can achieve!
At the heart of the city, we have excellent transportation links, a caring team with teamwork at the centre of everything we do and provide specialist training and development bespoke to your needs in a world-renowned specialist institution.
TMC are proud to say we have a dynamic pharmacy team that collaborate across the hospital to provide safe, effective, and efficient care to all those who come through our doors. Our brand of pharmacy aims to promote a happy, supportive, and empowering environment to each and every one of our team members to thrive in a fast-paced, highly rewarding environment. We are committed to growth and development and we believe in investing in our staff, so they can invest in our patients!
But don't take our word for it! Please see the full advert attached for what our current staff have to say, Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.