Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.

Our Renal Pharmacy has an exciting opportunity for a passionate Pharmacist, who has a special interest in Renal treatment. In this role you will be supported by a Renal Pharmacy team that puts patient care at the heart of what they do everyday and strive to deliver the highest patient centred care and treatment. 

This is an exciting opportunity for a Highly Specialised Renal Pharmacist to join a dynamic renal pharmacy service for the Wessex Kidney Centre (WKC). The successful candidate will work within a well-established team with an excellent culture of multidisciplinary working, providing opportunities to develop and embed a career in renal pharmacy whilst delivering a positive impact on patient experience.

PHUT has a large tertiary Renal and Transplant Unit with a catchment population of 2.2 million patients. The successful applicant will join the specialist renal pharmacy team, who provide the Renal Transplant Homecare service and pharmacist cover for the renal wards along with provision of pharmaceutical services to satellite dialysis units. There is an excellent culture of multidisciplinary team working and there are opportunities within the role to run clinics and become involved in research. You will have the opportunity to make a significant difference to clinical outcomes and patient safety, providing medicines optimisation to a complex cohort of patients. The successful applicant will help ensure that suitable systems and processes are followed to assure patient safety, optimise clinical outcomes and meet operational goals, ensuring governance and quality controls are in place. The post holder will act as a role model and become an expert in renal medicine as well as developing specialist knowledge in all aspects of drug management of renal patients.

You will be involved in and provide:

• To be a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist for Wessex Kidney Centre (WKC) utilising specialist clinical knowledge to provide a high quality pharmaceutical service to patients
• To practice as a non medical prescriber within the renal pharmacy service with specific expertise of renal medicines
• To provide highly specialised clinical pharmacy services to WKC to optimise patient benefit from treatment and ensure safe, efficacious, cost-effective use of medicines
• Play an integral role in supporting the MDT in the development and day to day running of the renal service
• Respond and action clinical queries regarding renal patient management
• Development of comprehensive renal guidelines and generation of patient supportive materials
• Work with key stakeholders across the WKC region to ensure the effective and safe delivery of the renal pharmacy service
• Provide expert advice on pharmaceutical matters when carrying out clinical pharmacy services
• Clinical screening and generation of renal  homecare prescriptions

Essential

• Masters or Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Completed or studying for Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy

Desirable

• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• NMP qualification or working towards and eligible for training
• Member of specialist pharmacist practice group e.g. UKCPA

Experience

• Minimum 3 years pharmacy experience in clinical pharmacy services
• Previous experience as a pharmacist in a leading role (team, service or directorate responsibilities)
• Previous experience of renal clinical pharmacy

Skills and Knowledge

• Sound knowledge of renal medicine
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to build rapport with colleagues at all levels
• Ability to cope with constant interruptions and maintain a professional approach
• Ability to present with a high level of personal credibility
• Demonstrate ability to concentrate, prioritise and manage an unpredictable workload
• Demonstrate ability to motivate self and others
• Demonstrate ability to work in a team
• Demonstrate confidence as a clinical pharmacist
• Demonstrate ability to use initiative and be proactive
• Demonstrate ability to maintain quality standards
• Confidence to deliver training sessions to members of the multidisciplinary team
• Demonstrate strong presentation skills and ability to use standard office software applications
• Experience of writing guidelines, policies and procedures and putting them into practice
• Clinical appraisal skills

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.