Transitional Training Pharmacist

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust • Full-time • United Kingdom, England, Stoke-on-Trent • £33.71k - £40.59k / year • 1w ago

We are a large and supportive team dedicated to excellent patient care and staff development. We have an exciting opportunity for flexible, enthusiastic and committed pharmacists to join our PharmacyTeam. We would welcome applications from qualified Pharmacists with no prior hospital experience looking to start as soon as possible. We are supportive of flexible working where it fits with the role and this role would be ideal for pharmacists wishing to pursue a blended career pathway.

Come and work in a supported environment with a team of experienced and enthusiastic pharmacists and technical staff.

We have a comprehensive training programm for pharmacists with no previous experience of working in a hospital who want to take up a career in hospital pharmacy. This 3 - 12 month programme will support you to become confident and highly competent in the pharmaceutical management of acutely unwell patients. The bespoke programme is designed to support pharmacists to gain experience, skills and knowledge across a wide range of specialities with training and objectives to support progress towards fully partaking in the clinical pharmacy rotation and joining the Step Up Programme Step1 (new rotational Band 6) to Step 3 (Rotational Band 7), utilising the Newly Qualified Pharmacist Pathway.

This post is aimed at pharmacists with no background of working in Hospital Pharmacy wanting to make the move to Hospital in a supported role with a clinical training programme. The post includes a 6 ?3 -12 month clinical training programme and will ensure a structured and supported introduction to hospital practice, compliant with GPhC recommendations. The transitional post will initially be based in the dispensaries with part of the day dedicated to clinical pharmacy training at ward level. Successful completion of the clinical training will then allow you to move into a rotational clinical pharmacist post.

The job description and person specification for the transitional post is in the job description section.

We are very proud of our training at UHNM and it has proved an effective method of producing excellent Advanced Specialist Pharmacists. Individuals equipped with excellent clinical knowledge combined with the skills to apply this in an efficient way; politically astute and able to adapt to the ever changes pressures that working in a 21st century health service will pose. All in all, the Transitional Pharmacist Training Programme at University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust will provide a firm launch pad from which you can start and progress your pharmacy career in hospital.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. We serve around three million people and we’re highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. The Trust has around 1,450 inpatient beds across two sites in Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford. Our 11,000 strong workforce provide emergency treatment, planned operations and medical care from Royal Stoke University Hospital and County Hospital in Stafford.

We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales. We have put together a wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their potential. Our goal is to be a world-class centre of achievement, where patients receive the highest standards of care and the best people come to learn, work and research.

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff is really important to us. We offer a range of options for our staff to help maintain a good work-life balance including full time, part time hours and bank hours. We are also committed to offering flexible working wherever we can and where relevant to the role and the service, agile working. You can select your preferences upon application.

The Pharmacy team is young, vibrant and forward thinking and has a proven track record in re-engineering services to improve the delivery of patient focused, pharmaceutical care and optimise the use of medicines within the Trust. National recognition of this work has been received over a number of years; Staff are actively encouraged to participate in audit and practice research and are supported to attend national and regional symposia to share this work.

We regularly present posters at the 3 major UK national symposia – CPC, RPS and UKCPA meetings. In addition members of the clinical pharmacist team have been runners up in the Clinical Pharmacist of the Year Award at the Clinical Pharmacy Congress in April twice in recent years. As a centre of expertise we can offer you scope to further develop and progress your pharmacy career. We also have close links with our Undergraduate Medical School and the School of Pharmacy at Keele University.

We have excellent road networks: from the Royal site 5 minutes’ drive from M6 Junction 15, 40 min train journey to Birmingham 35 minute train journey to Manchester and from the County Site 10 minutes’ drive to M6 junction 14, 20 minute train journey to Birmingham, 45 minute train journey to Manchester. Whilst within easy commuting distance from Birmingham and Manchester, Stoke on Trent itself offers many opportunities for social, cultural and sports activities and for those who like the outdoors the Staffordshire Moorlands are on the doorstep offering fantastic climbing, cycling and walking.

You will enjoy 27 days paid holiday plus 8 Bank Holidays rising to 33 days paid holiday plus 8 Bank Holidays following 10 years service.

Following the transitional post as part of the ROTATIONAL CLINICAL PHARMAICT POST there will be an on-call requirement (remunerated per session) which requires you to be within 30 minutes of the hospital. We also operate a backup on-call service to provide you with support should you need it, in addition to being able to contact our specialist pharmacists should the need arise.