Clinical Pharmacist

It is an exciting time to join our Pharmacy team at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust. Come and join us as we prepare to move to our brand new Midland Metropolitan University Hospital in 2024 - approximately 2 miles down the road!
In anticipation of this and due to promotion of some of our existing pharmacists, we are looking for enthusiastic, proactive and motivated pharmacists to deliver a high quality pharmacy service to wards and departments and join our clinical pharmacy team.
Applications are welcomed from both registered pharmacists working across all sectors and current foundation year trainee pharmacists who are due to complete their training year.
Complete with a Trust wide Electronic Patient Record and EPMA system, our pharmacy department has led on innovations in secure, automated storage (Pyxis) and utilisation of Abloy keys across the Trust.
Applicants must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council., We are developing and further expanding our pharmacy service to meet the challenges and changes of working within a new Integrated Care System within the Black Country. We provide clinical services to our large Primary Care and Community Therapies group which includes GP partnerships. We are looking to transform the way we work in partnership to ensure our local population get the best pharmaceutical care, wherever they are.
We are a Trust that is invested in wellbeing and put our patients, people and population first.
The post holder will provide high quality pharmaceutical services to key areas on rotation including medical, surgical and paediatric wards. As well as contributing to core dispensary and on call services, the Trust is moving towards a 7 day rostered working week.
Experience of working in hospital within a patient focused environment is desirable, whilst a keenness to use knowledge, skills and experience to improve patient care through the delivery of efficient medicines management services is essential. You will be supported by our in house Education and Training team as well as our accredited medicines management trained technicians to deliver these goals.
You will have excellent communication and interpersonal skills; you must be able to manage your own workload, direct & supervise others and work as part of a team.
As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.

Are you a newly qualified pharmacist, or a pharmacist from another hospital or sector looking to work in a Trust with unique acute and community clinical settings? Are you looking for your next challenge and keen to experience a range of clinical specialties? Then look no further...

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

NHS AfC: Band 6
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As "People" is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department., Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role will predominantly be based at MMUH. Further information on this , if applicable to your role, will be detailed during the recruitment process. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.