clinician Nottingham, England
Job description
Band 8a
Job overview
Are you a pharmacist with Paediatric Oncology experience looking for a new challenge, or the next step in your career?
Or are you a pharmacist with an adult oncology background looking to do something a little bit different?
If so, this may be the role for you!
We welcome applications from individuals with excellent communication and listening skills who are able to use their initiative and manage their own time and meet deadlines. The role requires you to be approachable, hardworking, have good attention to detail, be self-motivated and have a patient-centered attitude. You also need to have the ability to work independently and as part of the multidisciplinary team and have the drive to strive for continued improvement.
Main duties of the job
In addition to the summary below, please familiarise yourself with the full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.
To partake in specialised clinical pharmacy duties within Paediatric Oncology, ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken
To provide leadership, management and specialty/service support roles, particularly in relation to Paediatric Chemotherapy and associated supportive treatment.
To support the development and maintenance of the electronic Paediatric Chemotherapy Prescribing System.
To line manage and support more junior pharmacists in the Family Health Division.
To take full part in the weekend rota and bank holidays duties
To take part in senior pharmacist on-call duties.
Working for our organisation
Nottingham Children’s Hospital, based at NUH serves children and young people from birth to 19 years of age. We have 97 beds and care for around 40,000 children each year from Nottinghamshire and beyond, treating a full range of conditions. These include:
Planned treatment and surgery
Emergency surgical/medical treatment
Burns and plastics
Neurology and Neurosurgery
Rheumatology
Oncology
Cleft lip and palate
Paediatric Critical Care
Renal medicine and transplantation
Spinal and orthopaedics
Nottingham University Hospitals is a large, acute teaching Trust with a national & international reputation for the quality of our patient care and for research, education & innovation. It serves a local population of 2.5m & a tertiary population of 3-4m
Recently voted as one of the Sunday Times Best Places to live, our city and the region are one of the big reasons why a career at NUH is the right choice for so many. The city has been named in the top ten places to bring up a family and the top UK city to make your salary stretch further.
As a Pharmacy department, we are forward thinking & constantly implementing innovative ways of working to deliver the best possible patient care. We have a strong belief in leading our teams compassionately & fostering a supportive & caring workplace.
In addition to the brief list above you must familiarise yourself with the full job description and person specification attached to this advert prior to applying.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be based mainly at the QMC campus of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. You will be required to participate in a rostered flexible shift working system including evening, weekend and bank holiday arrangements over a 7 day period and support the on-call pharmacists through the senior pharmacist back-up rota.
Please refer to the full job description as part of the advert. If you have any further questions about the post please do not hesitate to get in touch with Colin Ward as below.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- B.Pharm / BSc (Pharmacy) or MPharm
- GPhC registered
- Diploma/MSc in clinical pharmacy or other appropriate post graduate qualification
- Demonstrate continued professional development
Desirable criteria
- Related post graduate qualification
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (MRPharmS)
- Play an active role in a relevant national network / specialist pharmacist group
- Leadership and management qualifications
- Independent prescribing qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad previous experience (post registration) of clinical pharmacy, particularly in acute settings
- Broad knowledge base of a wide range of clinical areas
- Experience of developing and implementing medicines and service related policies for a specialty.
- Some experience of line management, including effective performance management, recruitment and allocation of staff
- Some experience of excellent leadership and management skills
- Experience of training and education of both pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals
- Experience of multidisciplinary and team working at Pharmacy and Trust level
- Understanding of issues affecting the NHS
- Experience of provision of specialist clinical pharmacy review and advice relating to the safe use of medicines in either paediatric oncology/haematology or adult oncology/haematology
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in Paediatrics
- Publication of audit/research/clinical work at national level
- Experience of working actively on national groups
- Experience in undertaking, supervising and reporting/presenting audit / research work at local (Trust) level
- Effective liaison with relevant Trust level committees / groups or equivalent
- Experience in project management (including department-wide roles) and evidence of completed outcomes
- Experience of working with electronic prescribing and administration systems.
Communication and relationship skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent interpersonal, negotiating and presentation skills, both written and verbal -must be able to communicate highly complex drug or medicine related information to prescribers, clinicians, patients, relatives, relevant Trust committees and other stakeholders.
- Good communication skills with multidisciplinary team members and own profession.
- Able to defend opinions in a confident and constructive manner when challenged.
- Proven ability to influence and negotiate with relevant senior clinicians, managers and stakeholders.
- Empathy with patients, relatives and pharmacy customers.
Desirable criteria
- Teaching skills
- Experience of writing compelling business cases or case of need for service development
Analytical and Judgement skills
Essential criteria
- Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, production issues, drug therapy decisions and patient information.
- Experience of assessing and minimising risk associated with service provision and within medication processes
- Able to critically analyse information and evidence and to communicate the findings clearly in simple terms.
- Ability to work alone and make decisions within agreed parameters ; and appropriate referral / escalation as necessary
- Experience in making judgements involving highly complex facts, which require analysis, interpretation and options appraisal e.g. drug expenditure; medicines optimisation
- Ability to maintain and monitor database of medicines and activity related information e.g. medicines expenditure and usage ; rotas etc.
- Think creatively to support departmental strategy and overall Trust objectives, with evidence of incorporating innovative and ‘best practice’ into current practice.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of analysing expenditure
Planning and organisation skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to plan and organise existing and new clinical pharmacy services to a specialty. This may include creation and adjustment of plans.
- Ability to be flexible and manage change in a complex and changing healthcare environment.
- Self-motivated with excellent organisational skills, able to motivate others, to manage time effectively and work to deadlines, even when under pressure.
- Positive thinker, problem solver, ability to think laterally to develop new ideas.
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Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.
Easy read application: if you have a disability and find it difficult to complete our online application form, you can apply via our easy read application which you can find on the intranet https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/easy-read-job-application
Support with Applications and Interviews: NUH are now able to offer application completion support and interview preparation support. If you would like to be contacted to take up this offer please email [email protected] providing your name, phone number, and email address and the team will be in touch.
Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.
Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.
At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.
International Recruitment: If you are applying for a role with us from outside of the UK then please read the guidance on applying for a health or social care job in the UK from abroad.
ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.
Consent:
- Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
- Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£41.90 for enhanced and £21.90 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.
