Job summary
The Lead Surgical Pharmacist role will be essential for delivering the surgical pharmacy and clinical pharmacy team vision. This is an exciting expansion of an existing post, to provide leadership full-time to the surgical pharmacy service.
The post-holder will manage and lead the surgical pharmacy team across all adult hospital sites at UHBW, basing themselves on the Bristol Royal Infirmary site.
The post-holder will expand on lead all aspects of the surgical pharmacy services, with a focus on new and important areas such as involvement in the entire patient pathway from pre-operative assessment, to theatres and inpatient stay and on discharge, supporting the opioid stewardship agenda and on new and existing patient safety opportunities to deliver safe and effective practice to all surgical patients.
Main duties of the job
The focus of this role will be to ensure the safe and effective delivery of the surgical pharmacy service to adult patients across UHBW.
Your day to day duties will include (but not be limited to):
- Working in partnership with patients and colleagues to deliver the Pharmacy Team Vision for Surgery (see attached)
- Provide specialist input and advice to the surgery inpatient wards and ensure a safe and effective service is delivered to inpatients
- Lead on the education and training agenda for the rotational pharmacists, technicians, foundation year pharmacists and the wider MDT
- Develop yourself as an expert in surgical therapeutics, and provide that expertise to all surgical specialties
- Deliver our late-duty (overtime) and weekend and Bank Holiday (off-duty) shifts on a rota basis, as outlined in the job description
Our ideal candidate will:
- Have experience of surgical therapeutics
- have excellent rapport with patients and colleagues alike
- Demonstrate the capabilities and attitude for facilitating continual quality improvement and problem solving
- Be enthusiastic with an ability to motivate yourself and your team
- Have excellent communication, organisation skills and leadership qualities to be able to effectively lead a small team
About us
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Evidence of leading a team
- Previous experience of audit or quality improvement.
- One-to-one and small group teaching.
- Knowledge of common surgical conditions and clinical issues encountered for adult patients and of safe and appropriate drug treatments
- Knowledge of the legal frameworks for the dispensing, prescribing and administering of medicines.
- Demonstrable experience of utilising quality improvement methodology and project working.
Desirable
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Master’s degree (or equivalent) in pharmacy.
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD).
- Postgraduate certificate (or equivalent) in Clinical Pharmacy.
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- Post graduate diploma or Master’s degree in clinical pharmacy.
- Independent prescribing qualification.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to operate multiple clinical digital systems.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Problem identification and solving.
- Prioritisation and task management.
- Proficient at collaboration and influencing.
- Lateral thinking.
- Able to critically analyse prescriptions for clinical appropriateness.
- Can organise own and others work to meet agreed deadlines.
- Ability to make safe and clinically relevant decisions in high pressure environments.
- Ability to manage a small team of junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians on a daily basis.
Aptitudes
Essential
- Ability to work alone or as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
- Self-motivated.
- Flexible and adaptive approach, willing to adapt to change and learn new processes and systems.
- Enthusiastic leader of small teams.
- Innovative.
- Confident and articulate.
- Organised methodical approach.
- Ability to assimilate large amounts of clinical information to make therapeutic decisions in complex patients.
- Attention to detail.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Evidence of leading a team
- Previous experience of audit or quality improvement.
- One-to-one and small group teaching.
- Knowledge of common surgical conditions and clinical issues encountered for adult patients and of safe and appropriate drug treatments
- Knowledge of the legal frameworks for the dispensing, prescribing and administering of medicines.
- Demonstrable experience of utilising quality improvement methodology and project working.
Desirable
Qualifications and Training
Essential
- Master’s degree (or equivalent) in pharmacy.
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD).
- Postgraduate certificate (or equivalent) in Clinical Pharmacy.
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
- Post graduate diploma or Master’s degree in clinical pharmacy.
- Independent prescribing qualification.
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Ability to operate multiple clinical digital systems.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Problem identification and solving.
- Prioritisation and task management.
- Proficient at collaboration and influencing.
- Lateral thinking.
- Able to critically analyse prescriptions for clinical appropriateness.
- Can organise own and others work to meet agreed deadlines.
- Ability to make safe and clinically relevant decisions in high pressure environments.
- Ability to manage a small team of junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians on a daily basis.
Aptitudes
Essential
- Ability to work alone or as a member of a multidisciplinary team.
- Self-motivated.
- Flexible and adaptive approach, willing to adapt to change and learn new processes and systems.
- Enthusiastic leader of small teams.
- Innovative.
- Confident and articulate.
- Organised methodical approach.
- Ability to assimilate large amounts of clinical information to make therapeutic decisions in complex patients.
- Attention to detail.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
