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Advanced Clinical Pharmacist Inflammatory Bowel Disease
The closing date is 17 August 2025
We are looking for a dynamic clinical pharmacist with extensive NHS post-registration experience, to help us deliver fantastic advanced-level pharmacy care to our Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) patients.
Our well established and progressive gastroenterology service now offers one of the most comprehensive and specialised services in the UK. The department has a particular reputation for the clinical care of colitis and Crohn's disease, as well as in the management of coeliac disease, irritable bowel syndrome, nutritional support and intestinal failure, cancer, autoimmune liver disease and viral hepatitis.
Great emphasis is placed on multidisciplinary care, with specialist nurses, dieticians and pharmacists in the team working alongside the consultants. We also have a friendly team of clinical pharmacists, technicians and assistants providing a clinical pharmacy service to all of gastroenterology and hepatology. You will be responsible for the clinical pharmacy service to the IBD patients.
As well as significant post-registration experience, you'll also need a postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy alongside excellent clinical leadership, interpersonal and communications skills and be an Independent Prescriber.
Main duties of the job
* To lead, deliver, develop and evaluate clinical pharmacy services to the Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) service in accordance with the objectives set by the Principal Pharmacist and the Clinical Directorate management representative.
* Contribute to the multidisciplinary IBD team as a clinical practitioner, championing medicines optimisation
* To deliver relevant education, training, mentorship and clinical supervision.
* To contribute to the pharmacy departmental services including evenings and weekends.
About us
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Job responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
* Higher degree/ Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent postgraduate diploma in specialist area
* Registered Independent Prescriber
* Post-graduate Masters in Clinical Pharmacy (or equivalent qualification).
* Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Skills and Knowledge
* Ability to sustain prolonged concentration despite unpredictable workload.
* Manages difficult and ambiguous problems
* To adopt a flexible working attitude to meet the needs of the patient and the pharmacy department, identifying a vision for the delivery of pharmaceutical care.
* Ability to develop good working relationships across traditional boundaries, e.g., primary/secondary/tertiary care.
Experience
* Extensive post-registration experience including significant experience in IBD, Gastroenterology and/or hepatology
* Experience of teaching and/or tutoring students.
* Research, audit, and publication experience
* Appropriate Short Management Course e.g., appraisal training, leadership skills.
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.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£55,690 to £62,682 a yearpa/pro rata for part time staff
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