Main area Advanced Clinical Pharmacist - Stroke
Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Mon-Fri; weekends, evenings and bank holidays on a shared rota with all other pharmacists)
Job ref: 190-8812-DIR
Employer: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal Hallamshire Hospital
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £53,755 - £60,504 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 09/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 18/02/2025
Advanced Clinical Pharmacist (Stroke)
NHS AfC: Band 8a
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued, and appreciated. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages, and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers. Job Overview
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 stroke units based at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. Our friendly, dynamic team of clinical pharmacists, technicians, and assistants provide a clinical service across the stroke pathway. The Sheffield stroke unit houses one of the two regional hyper-acute stroke units within South Yorkshire. The service offers thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy and is actively involved in clinical research. The hyper-acute stroke unit (16 inpatient beds) is co-located with an acute neurology unit (48 beds). There are an additional 28 beds on the acute stroke unit and close working links with an inpatient rehabilitation unit (SPARC) located in a community setting. You will be responsible for the clinical service delivery on a day-to-day basis while supporting foundation and senior pharmacists in the team. 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. Ideally, you’ll also have Independent Prescriber status or be willing to undertake the course. Main Duties of the Job
To lead, deliver, develop, and evaluate clinical pharmacy services in accordance with the objectives set by the Principal Pharmacist and the Sheffield Acute Stroke Service. Contribute to the multidisciplinary stroke team as a clinical practitioner, championing medicines optimisation within the acute stroke service and further along the stroke pathway. To deliver relevant education, training, mentorship, and clinical supervision. To contribute to the pharmacy departmental services including evenings and weekends. Support pharmacy service areas in the department; this may include dispensaries, technical, and medicines information. Working for Our Organisation
You will be working for an organisation that values and respects all of 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, including a firm commitment to professional development and an excellent health and well-being support service. Detailed Job Description and Main 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 a specialist area Registered Independent Prescriber Post-graduate Masters in Clinical Pharmacy (or equivalent) Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Further Training
Clinical audit/research & evaluation experience Experience
Extensive post-registration experience including significant experience in Stroke/GSM Experience of teaching and/or tutoring students Research, audit, and publication experience Appropriate Short Management Course e.g., appraisal training, leadership skills Ability to develop good working relationships across traditional boundaries, eg, primary/secondary/tertiary care Ability to sustain prolonged concentration despite unpredictable workload Manages difficult and ambiguous problems To adopt a flexible working attitude to the needs of the patient and the pharmacy department and identifies a vision for the delivery of Pharmaceutical care Candidates are advised to read the attached guidance on using AI technology. When you complete your application, you are required to declare that the information in your application form is true and complete. The personal statement is exactly that; personal. For more information about our organisation and the opportunities available, please visit our website and follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. Advanced Clinical Pharmacist- Acute Stroke Lead
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NHS AfC: Band 8a
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued, and appreciated. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages, and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers. Job Overview
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 stroke units based at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital. Our friendly, dynamic team of clinical pharmacists, technicians, and assistants provide a clinical service across the stroke pathway. The Sheffield stroke unit houses one of the two regional hyper-acute stroke units within South Yorkshire. The service offers thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy and is actively involved in clinical research. The hyper-acute stroke unit (16 inpatient beds) is co-located with an acute neurology unit (48 beds). There are an additional 28 beds on the acute stroke unit and close working links with an inpatient rehabilitation unit (SPARC) located in a community setting. You will be responsible for the clinical service delivery on a day-to-day basis while supporting foundation and senior pharmacists in the team. 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. Ideally, you’ll also have Independent Prescriber status or be willing to undertake the course. Main Duties of the Job
To lead, deliver, develop, and evaluate clinical pharmacy services in accordance with the objectives set by the Principal Pharmacist and the Sheffield Acute Stroke Service. Contribute to the multidisciplinary stroke team as a clinical practitioner, championing medicines optimisation within the acute stroke service and further along the stroke pathway. To deliver relevant education, training, mentorship, and clinical supervision. To contribute to the pharmacy departmental services including evenings and weekends. Support pharmacy service areas in the department; this may include dispensaries, technical, and medicines information. Working for Our Organisation
You will be working for an organisation that values and respects all of 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, including a firm commitment to professional development and an excellent health and well-being support service. Detailed Job Description and Main 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 a specialist area Registered Independent Prescriber Post-graduate Masters in Clinical Pharmacy (or equivalent) Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Further Training
Clinical audit/research & evaluation experience Experience
Extensive post-registration experience including significant experience in Stroke/GSM Experience of teaching and/or tutoring students Research, audit, and publication experience Appropriate Short Management Course e.g., appraisal training, leadership skills Ability to develop good working relationships across traditional boundaries, eg, primary/secondary/tertiary care Ability to sustain prolonged concentration despite unpredictable workload Manages difficult and ambiguous problems To adopt a flexible working attitude to the needs of the patient and the pharmacy department and identifies a vision for the delivery of Pharmaceutical care Candidates are advised to read the attached guidance on using AI technology. When you complete your application, you are required to declare that the information in your application form is true and complete. The personal statement is exactly that; personal. For more information about our organisation and the opportunities available, please visit our website and follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Employer Certification / Accreditation Badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. Advanced Clinical Pharmacist- Acute Stroke Lead
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