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Clinical Pharmacist
The closing date is 31 July 2025
THIS POST IS FIXED TERM FOR UPTO 24 MONTHS DUE TO FUNDING
Would you like to be part of an innovative and motivated team whilst developing your career portfolio? Do you share our health board values and passion for improving the care of patients in Wales?
We have a number of exciting opportunities for enthusiastic, passionate and committed pharmacists to support our pharmacy services across CTMUHB.
In these stimulating roles you will work closely with, and be supported by, highly skilled and experienced pharmacy teams. Roles will follow a rotational programme across the CTMUHB footprint to build your clinical knowledge and experience different specialities. Successful candidates will be based at one site to contribute to on call rotas.
All posts come with formal development opportunities which may include the HEIW Post registration Foundation qualification or a distance learning diploma. Preferences can be discussed at interview.
We welcome applications from newly qualified pharmacists registering in Aug 2025 or experienced pharmacists ready for a new challenge.
Pharmacy in CTMUHB has a strong culture of learning and development with a focus on support and wellbeing. We work collaboratively across all sectors of pharmacy as ONE team. All sites have established medicines management services and electronic discharge systems. Digital solutions for prescribing and managing medicines are due to be implemented.
Main duties of the job
Pharmacists led clinics are well established and pharmacy staff are valued members of clinical multidisciplinary teams
* The post holder will provide a safe and effective clinical pharmacy and ward-based medicines management service to clinical area(s) and advise medical staff and nurses on pharmacy matters.
* Rotations are health board wide and could include, medicine, admissions, surgery, trauma & orthopaedics, frailty, palliative care, primary care and prison services.
* The post holder must comply with current legislation and UHB policies. The recommendations contained within the Code of Ethics as issued by the General Pharmaceutical Council and the obligations in the Standards of Good Professional Practice will be upheld at all times.
* The post holder will be expected to undertake post-graduation development as identified by service and post holder needs
We want to build your network, so we expect all these posts to start together on the 1st August 2025. If you have prior commitments, please discuss this at interview.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn't mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn't 'fluency', just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.
About us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values:
* We listen, learn and improve
* We treat everyone with respect
* We all work together as one team
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only our lifeblood of our organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac
This is a fixed term post for 24 months due to funding.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Vocational Master's Degree in Pharmacy
* Registered with GPhC
* Evidence of CPD
* Member or RPS
Experience
* 1 year Trainee Pharmacist Program completion
* Experience of Audit/Project work
* Hospital Pharmacy Experience
Personal Qualities
* Evidence of Team Working and independent working
* Positive attitude towards development (self and service)
* Able to work independently
* Enthusiastic and motivated
* Flexible and adaptable to the service
* Responsible for own actions
* Positive attitude to improvement and development
Aptitude and Abilites
* Effective verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills
* Able to evaluate information and make decisions of highly complex facts
* Effective organisational and prioritising skills
* Welsh language Speaking/Listening Skills at Level 3 or above
* Effective time management and able to remain effective in a busy environment
* Ability to manage self and others
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.
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