Acute and Respiratory Specialist Pharmacist

Contract: 10 months (Fixed term until 31st July 2025)

Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Late duty and weekends)

Are you a current post-registration hospital pharmacist or clinical pharmacist working in another area of practice? Are you looking to gain varied and exciting specialist experience in our hospital’s acute medical unit and respiratory unit? If so, University Hospitals Bristol & Weston NHS Trust (UHBW) has an exciting opportunity to join our friendly and supportive team.

Do you want to join a friendly, thriving and innovative team committed to providing the best possible pharmaceutical care? Our UHBW Bristol site is comprised of 7 hospitals in Bristol city centre, providing local and regional acute services for South Bristol, South West England and parts of South Wales. 

We are looking for motivated and ambitious new team members to join our working within our Medicine team. Our ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate post-registration experience in clinical practice with development against the RPS Foundation Pharmacy Framework, will be GPhC registered and be able to demonstrate their experience in clinical practice through application and interview showcasing their readiness to move into a more specialist role. Please note this post is fixed term until 31st July 2025.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide pharmaceutical advice to acute and respiratory medicine areas and will look to develop the clinical service and further their own development in these areas. This role will provide leadership to the pharmacy medicine team at various points in the week co-ordinating the workflow and junior pharmacist assignments to optimise patient experience and hospital flow. You will contribute to clinical projects, quality improvement programmes and teaching through developing management, leadership and educational skills in conjunction with the lead pharmacists in medicine.

As a member of the pharmacy team you will be required to provide general pharmaceutical duties to the various sections of the pharmacy department providing leadership and supervision for supporting staff. The post holder will be required participate in the pharmacy department late, weekend and bank-holiday rotas.

Person specification

Qualifications and training

Essential criteria

• 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 criteria

• Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
• Post graduate diploma or Master's degree in clinical pharmacy.
• Independent prescribing qualification.

Knowledge and experience

Essential criteria

• Evidence of UK hospital pharmacy experience.
• Previous experience of audit or quality improvement.
• One-to-one and small group teaching.
• Knowledge of common medical conditions encountered and of safe and appropriate drug treatments.
• Knowledge of the legal framework for the dispensing, prescribing and administering of medicines.
• Acute medicine and / or respiratory experience.

Desirable criteria

• Quality improvement methodology and project working.
• Line-management.

Skills and abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to operate multiple clinical digital systems.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Problem identification and solving.
• Prioritisation and task management.
• Lateral thinking.
• Ability to critically analyse prescriptions for clinical appropriateness.
• Can organise own and other's work to meet agreed deadlines.
• Ability to make safe and clinically relevant decisions in high pressure environments.
• Proficient at collaboration and influencing.
• Ability to manage a small team of junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians on a daily basis.

Aptitudes

Essential criteria

• 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.