Band 7 Specialist Pharmacist Palliative Care
Posted 3 hours 46 minutes ago by NHS
£125,000 - £150,000 Annual
Permanent
Full Time
Other
Staffordshire, Birmingham, United Kingdom, B19 1
Job Description
Band 7 Specialist Pharmacist Palliative Care We are pleased to offer an exciting opportunity for a motivated and patientfocused pharmacist to join our established Palliative Care Pharmacy Team, delivering specialist clinical pharmacy services for Birmingham Hospice.
The Role
You will be based primarily on the inpatient units at our Selly Park and Erdington hospice sites, working as part of a friendly, experienced and supportive Clinical Pharmacy team. The post focuses on providing specialist clinical pharmacy input to patients with lifelimiting illness, with the opportunity to expand your role to include work within our Living Well Centre and community services, depending on service need and individual interest.
Key responsibilities include:
We are looking for a pharmacist with a strong clinical background, excellent communication skills and a genuine interest in palliative and end of life care. You will be adaptable, confident working within a multidisciplinary team, and committed to delivering highquality, compassionate care.
Main duties of the job
Birmingham Hospice is a large, wellestablished organisation providing specialist palliative and end of life care across the city. We are committed to innovation, education and continuous improvement, while keeping compassion and dignity at the heart of everything we do.
You will be joining:
A role where your expertise changes lives every day.
Generous benefits and recognition of NHS/hospice service for pension and leave.
A culture that celebrates innovation, inclusion, and belonging.
About us The hospice is committed to developing adynamic and diverse team, representative of the communities it serves. We askyou, therefore, to complete the Equal Opportunities monitoring form to help usin this aim.
We value each person as an individual whether they arecolleagues, patients, family members, carers or supporters, every personmatters. We embrace diversity of culture, background and environment knowing itenriches our workplace and our relationships with our local communities.
We arecommitted to building a culture of inclusion and belonging. We would love tohear from you, about what makes you uniquely you and how this opportunity willsupport you to succeed.
Job responsibilities Happy to talk about Flexible Working
Job Title:
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist Palliative Care
Department:
AHP
Hospice Band:
Band 7
Reports to:
Responsible for:
N/A
DBS Required
Job Purpose
The post holder will provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients cared for by Birmingham Hospice across inpatient units, day services and community settings. They will work as part of the wider pharmacy and multidisciplinary team, delivering expert pharmaceutical advice, supporting the safe, effective and personcentred use of medicines, and contributing to the development of highquality palliative and end of life care services.
The post holder will be required to work across both the Selly Park and Erdington hospice sites.
This role is well suited to pharmacists from hospital or primary care backgrounds with strong clinical skills who are motivated to develop specialist expertise in palliative and end of life care.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Clinical Patient Services
Birmingham Hospice is committed to supporting pharmacists to develop specialist expertise in palliative and end of life care. The successful post holder will receive support to develop confidently in post, tailored to their previous experience and individual learning needs.
This will include mentorship and clinical supervision from experienced palliative care pharmacists, supported clinical exposure across inpatient and community settings, and opportunities to develop prescribing practice, service development and leadership skills. Where required, support will be provided to undertake relevant postgraduate learning and to develop competence in specialist areas of palliative care practice.
Communication
The Role
You will be based primarily on the inpatient units at our Selly Park and Erdington hospice sites, working as part of a friendly, experienced and supportive Clinical Pharmacy team. The post focuses on providing specialist clinical pharmacy input to patients with lifelimiting illness, with the opportunity to expand your role to include work within our Living Well Centre and community services, depending on service need and individual interest.
Key responsibilities include:
- Delivering specialist clinical pharmacy care to hospice inpatients
- Working closely within the multidisciplinary team, providing expert medicines advice to medical, nursing and allied health colleagues
- Supporting the development and delivery of a safe, effective and personcentred medicines management service across both hospice sites
- Contributing to medicines education, governance and service development
We are looking for a pharmacist with a strong clinical background, excellent communication skills and a genuine interest in palliative and end of life care. You will be adaptable, confident working within a multidisciplinary team, and committed to delivering highquality, compassionate care.
Main duties of the job
- Independent prescribing is desirable, but not essential
- Previous palliative care experience is welcomed, however pharmacists with relevant transferable skills and a desire to develop in this specialist area are strongly encouraged to apply
Birmingham Hospice is a large, wellestablished organisation providing specialist palliative and end of life care across the city. We are committed to innovation, education and continuous improvement, while keeping compassion and dignity at the heart of everything we do.
You will be joining:
- An experienced and supportive palliative care pharmacy team, including specialist pharmacists and technicians
- A hospice that values staff wellbeing, reflection and professional development
- A multidisciplinary environment where pharmacy input is respected and integral to patient care
- Training and mentorship from experienced palliative care pharmacists and the wider MDT
- Regular clinical supervision, peer support and reflective practice
- Strong technician support to enable clinical focus
A role where your expertise changes lives every day.
Generous benefits and recognition of NHS/hospice service for pension and leave.
A culture that celebrates innovation, inclusion, and belonging.
About us The hospice is committed to developing adynamic and diverse team, representative of the communities it serves. We askyou, therefore, to complete the Equal Opportunities monitoring form to help usin this aim.
We value each person as an individual whether they arecolleagues, patients, family members, carers or supporters, every personmatters. We embrace diversity of culture, background and environment knowing itenriches our workplace and our relationships with our local communities.
We arecommitted to building a culture of inclusion and belonging. We would love tohear from you, about what makes you uniquely you and how this opportunity willsupport you to succeed.
Job responsibilities Happy to talk about Flexible Working
Job Title:
Specialist Clinical Pharmacist Palliative Care
Department:
AHP
Hospice Band:
Band 7
Reports to:
Responsible for:
N/A
DBS Required
Job Purpose
The post holder will provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients cared for by Birmingham Hospice across inpatient units, day services and community settings. They will work as part of the wider pharmacy and multidisciplinary team, delivering expert pharmaceutical advice, supporting the safe, effective and personcentred use of medicines, and contributing to the development of highquality palliative and end of life care services.
The post holder will be required to work across both the Selly Park and Erdington hospice sites.
This role is well suited to pharmacists from hospital or primary care backgrounds with strong clinical skills who are motivated to develop specialist expertise in palliative and end of life care.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Clinical Patient Services
- To provide specialist palliative care clinical pharmacy services to patients under the care of Birmingham Hospice in line with priorities agreed with the Senior Specialist Clinical Pharmacist and Director of Clinical Services.
- To manage a clinical caseload of patients with palliative care needs, working collaboratively across hospice inpatient units, community palliative care services, Hospice at Home, medical teams, therapy services and other relevant teams.
- To provide specialist pharmaceutical advice on a daytoday basis to healthcare professionals including GPs, consultants, clinical nurse specialists, district nurses and allied health professionals, as well as to patients and carers, as appropriate.
- To provide wardbased clinical pharmacy services to hospice inpatient units, including:
- Medicines reconciliation and confirmation of medication histories
- Prescription review and optimisation of therapy
- Advice on dosing, interactions, contraindications, monitoring and routes of administration
- Monitoring efficacy, appropriateness and tolerability of medicines
- Patient and carer education
- Attendance at and active participation in ward rounds
- To provide communitybased clinical pharmacy services to patients under the care of Birmingham Hospice, including:
- Holistic medication review and optimisation
- Management of complex symptoms
- Advice on safe administration of medicines in the community
- Liaison with GPs, district nurses and community pharmacies to ensure continuity of care
- Assessment and arrangement of anticipatory medicines, with sensitive communication to patients and families
- Prescribing medicines where appropriate, in line with professional competence and organisational policy
- To support patients and healthcare professionals to access specialist palliative care medicines in the community and provide advice on appropriate alternatives where required.
- To attend and contribute to hospice and wider multidisciplinary team meetings as required.
- To support the delivery of a safe, effective and costeffective medicines management service across Birmingham Hospice sites.
- To work closely with Medicines Management Technicians to ensure compliance with medicines legislation, Controlled Drugs requirements and CQC standards.
- To contribute to the development, implementation and review of medicinesrelated policies, procedures, guidelines and clinical care pathways.
- To participate in audit, service evaluation and quality improvement activities and make recommendations based on findings.
- To provide medicinesrelated education and training to hospice staff in response to service and learning needs.
- To mentor pharmacy students during placements within Birmingham Hospice.
- To support prescribers within the organisation to promote safe, effective and evidencebased prescribing practice.
Birmingham Hospice is committed to supporting pharmacists to develop specialist expertise in palliative and end of life care. The successful post holder will receive support to develop confidently in post, tailored to their previous experience and individual learning needs.
This will include mentorship and clinical supervision from experienced palliative care pharmacists, supported clinical exposure across inpatient and community settings, and opportunities to develop prescribing practice, service development and leadership skills. Where required, support will be provided to undertake relevant postgraduate learning and to develop competence in specialist areas of palliative care practice.
Communication
- To communicate complex and sensitive medicinesrelated information effectively to patients, carers and healthcare professionals, often in emotionally challenging and distressing situations.
- To use advanced verbal, nonverbal and written communication skills to discuss prescribing decisions, challenge practice constructively where appropriate, and support shared decisionmaking.
- To maintain effective communication across primary, secondary and specialist care interfaces to ensure seamless patient care.
- To work with a high level of autonomy, managing own workload and priorities within agreed service frameworks.
- To practice in accordance with the General Pharmaceutical Council Standards and be professionally accountable for own practice.
- To delegate appropriate tasks to other members of the pharmacy team to support efficient and effective service delivery. . click apply for full job details