*Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Adult Parenteral Nutrition & Intestinal Failure (Band 8a)*

*Job Summary:*

This is an exciting new role as part of our growing intestinal failure nutrition team.

You would be working at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital site with a once weekly commitment to Heartlands Hospital or Good Hope to establish Pharmacist lead Nutrition Support Team ward rounds. * To partake in specialised clinical pharmacy duties and core clinical pharmacy activities (60%) * To support and develop the Adult Parenteral Nutrition and Intestinal Failure clinical pharmacy service provision for the nutrition support team (NST) working with other pharmacy staff providing safe, effective and economic use of medicines. * Leadership, management and directorate/service support roles (20%) * To line manage and support more junior pharmacists in the listed directorates (10%) * To take full part in clinical/dispensary rota and bank holidays duties (10%)

*Duties:* * To provide specialist input and demonstrate expert knowledge in Adult Parenteral Nutrition and Intestinal Failure. * Working within the trust formulary, using evidence based medicine, across UHB sites. * Ensure the clinical services provided are of a high standard and screening in a timely manner. Provide daily clinical pharmacy services to the speciality. * Develop the clinical pharmacy service and lead other Pharmacists and Technicians in the speciality to a high standard of pharmaceutical care. * Provide specialist advice to and counsel patients and/or their relatives on their prescribed medication to promote compliance. * Monitor and report discrepancies found in the computerised prescribing system (PICS), consulting with the Lead Pharmacist- Electronic Prescribing. * Develop a whole systems approach within the specialty and develop integrated care pathways to provide information to patients on obtaining supplies of specialised medications after discharge from hospital. * Participate in the rota for provision of pharmacy services covering dispensary, on Saturdays, Sundays and Bank Holidays. Providing advisory support to the on-call service as per rota.

*About us*

University Hospitals Birmingham is one of the largest teaching hospitals Trusts in England, serving a local, regional, national and international population.

We employ around 22,000 people and are committed to investing in your training, development, health and wellbeing and future career with us.

We see and treat 2.2 million patients every year across our four sites - Good Hope, Heartlands, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and Solihull Hospital - and through our community services and clinics. We are centres of excellence in many clinical specialities.

*Our Values:* * *Kind*: the kindness people show to each other every day * *Connected*: the connections we build with everyone around us * *Bold*: the ability to be bold in how we think, speak and act

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: £50,952.00-£57,349.00 per year

Benefits: * Company pension * Employee discount * On-site parking

Education: * Diploma of Higher Education (required)

Experience: * Hospital: 2 years (required)

Licence/Certification: * GPhC (required)

Work Location: In person