Senior Support Pharmacist Uk Visa Sponsorship

Job Description

JOB SUMMARY

Do you have the vision and desire to assist us provide a modern pharmaceutical service?

We are looking for a dedicated and experienced Pharmacist to join our Clinical Pharmacy Team at the Queen Elizabeth location as a Senior Support Pharmacist.

The chosen applicant will join a large clinical pharmacy team. They will collaborate closely with the Specialist Pharmacist for Surgery, medical practitioners, and nursing staff. You will manage and support band 6 chemists and clinical pharmacy technicians in order to support and improve patient stay in the hospital while maintaining direct patient contact.

You must be able to form good working connections, challenge and prioritise both your own and the team’s work.

The University Hospital Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is an extremely rewarding place to work. You have the potential to make a real difference for patients, their families, and the larger community.

Some advantages of joining our team:

• Excellent learning and development possibilities, including completing a structured development program to deliver a specific service while being engaged in the clinical region.
• Dedicated protected studying during working hours to aid your progress.
• Opportunities to work inside an MDT
• Access to reputable health and wellness initiatives, as well as a variety of employee networks.

Main responsibilities, tasks, and abilities required

We are looking for an enthusiastic clinical chemist with the ability to work in a specialised therapeutic area. You must be motivated, have strong communication skills, and a desire to use your knowledge, abilities, and experience to improve patient care and encourage healthcare providers on how to use medications most effectively.

You will have a patient-facing position, assisting the speciality within the surgical team in understanding treatment approaches. You will be encouraged to attend a standalone NMP course or, if you have previously achieved success in another area, to expand your expertise in this sector.

Duties will include providing clinical input to the surgical wards and demonstrating expert understanding of the clinical specialisation. You will provide a service in accordance with the Chief Pharmacist’s goals and the Trust’s agreed-upon standards, including

• Effectively manage challenging and unclear challenges.
• Make decisions using little information.
• Display advanced clinical reasoning and judgement.
• Demonstrate intuitive understanding of situations.
• Ensure that the clinical services offered are of good quality and that all prescription medication is clinically screened in a timely fashion. Provide daily clinical pharmaceutical services in the General Surgical wards.
• Understand and implement Cost Improvement Programs (CIP) to support the specialism and department. In addition, audits and Quality Improvement Projects (QIPs) to present at specialised meetings will be sponsored.

About us.

We are acknowledged as one of the UK’s leading NHS Foundation Trusts. Our aim is to Build Healthier Lives, and we understand that we will require exceptional employees to achieve this.

Our dedication to our employees is to offer the ideal environment for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and well-being of our employees, including a commitment to provide flexible working arrangements when possible;
We provide our employees with a wide range of training and development options to help them achieve their personal and professional goals.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our employees are treated fairly and feel like they belong by providing a friendly and inclusive atmosphere. This is about equal opportunity; eradicating all barriers, including prejudice, and ensuring that each individual member of staff reaches their full potential, achieves their goals, and thrives in their jobs. This isn’t just words. We’re taking action. Our dedication to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation, where every voice is heard, and is pushed by our varied and active staff networks, as well as the Fairness Taskforce, which is managed by our CEO. We foster a culture that encourages employees to oppose discriminatory behaviour and allows people to contribute their “full self” to a kinder, more connected, and bolder place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a smoke-free hospital.

Job Description

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Vocational Master’s Degree in Pharmacy (or similar)
• A postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification has been achieved or is expected to be completed within the next six months.
• Be willing to work towards a non-medical prescribing qualification.
• Membership in the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Desirable

• Has begun a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification (eligible to Annex 21 roles).

Experience

Essential

• Post-registration experience as a pharmacist in hospital pharmacy, spanning a range of specialities, or the ability to demonstrate the comparable level of expertise.
• Previous engagement in a multidisciplinary team.
• Shows passion and enthusiasm for providing high-quality pharmaceutical treatment.
• Experience teaching or presenting to other healthcare professionals or patients.
• Commitment to Own Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
• Have significant clinical knowledge in hospital pharmacy.
• Knowledge of national efforts and recommendations, such as NICE, NSF.
• Has knowledge of accessible resources to answer Medicines Information questions.
• capable of working with drug budget information.
• Shows good knowledge of hospital clinical pharmacy and current challenges.

Additional Criteria:

Essential

• Professional manner.
• Well-motivated and reliable
• Able to work with various levels of staff
• Ability to operate quietly under pressure.
• Ability to travel across all Trust sites as required by the job description.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This position is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, which requires a Disclosure application to be submitted to the Disclosure and Barring Service (previously known as CRB) to check for any past criminal conviction.

Certificate of Sponsorship

applicants from job seekers who require existing skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are encouraged and will be reviewed alongside all other applicants. For further information, visit the UK Visas and Immigration page.

From April 6, 2017, skilled worker applicants requesting for entrance clearance into the UK were required to show a criminal record certificate from each country where they had lived continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the previous ten years. This requirement also applies to adult dependents (those over the age of 18). Guidance can be found here. Criminal background checks for international candidates.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must hold current UK professional registration. For further information, please visit the NHS Careers page.