Specialist Clinical Pharmacist Teacher Practitioner

Job summary
Most pharmacists have to choose: stay clinical or move into academia. This role doesn't make you choose - and it doesn't put your clinical career on the back burner either. We're recruiting a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist Teacher Practitioner to split their week between Good Hope Hospital and Aston University. On the hospital side, you'll lead clinical pharmacy service delivery, line-manage a team of pharmacists, and help train and develop trainee pharmacists - genuine leadership experience, not just clinical delivery. On the university side, you'll lecture, run workshops, design learning content, mark assessments and act as personal tutor - real ownership, not occasional teaching cover. Good Hope and Aston University are both easy to reach from central Birmingham by public transport. If you're ready to be stretched, supported and genuinely valued in both halves of your career, we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job
Split your week 50/50: clinical leadership at Good Hope, teaching leadership at Aston. On the wards, you'll lead clinical pharmacy service delivery - screening prescriptions, reconciling medicines and monitoring therapeutic drug levels. You'll line-manage a team of pharmacists, participate in the training of trainee pharmacists, and supervise undergraduate pharmacy placements, with real scope to grow your own leadership and people-management skills. At Aston University, you'll shape how the next generation learns: delivering lectures and workshops, developing teaching materials, marking student work, overseeing hospital placements and acting as personal tutor to MPharm students. You'll also have real scope to pursue clinical and pedagogic research in an area you care about. You don't need teaching experience to apply - just solid hospital pharmacy experience and enthusiasm for developing others. We'll support you through Fellowship of Advance HE (FHEA) if you don't already hold it. What you'll get:

• A genuine split career, not a token teaching add-on
• Structured leadership and line management experience within a supportive clinical team
• Protected learning time built into your working week
• Support toward non-medical prescribing (NMP), if not already qualified
• Health, wellbeing and family benefits, including NHS discounts at retailers, restaurants and leisure facilities

About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy (or equivalent)
• Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Has completed a postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification or equivalent advanced practice.
• Willing to work towards a non-medical prescribing qualification

Desirable

• Has completed a non-medical prescribing course and registered as an NMP with the GPhC
• Working towards Level I Faculty Membership with the RPS

Experience
Essential

• Possesses relevant clinical knowledge in complex clinical pharmacy settings
• Previous participation in multi-disciplinary team
• Demonstrates commitment and enthusiasm for providing high quality pharmaceutical care
• Experience of teaching/presenting to other healthcare professionals/patients
• Commitment to own Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

Additional Criteria
Essential

• Able to demonstrate a professional approach
• Well-motivated and reliable
• Able to work with all grades and staff roles
• Able to work calmly under pressure
• Able to travel across all Trust sites as required by job role

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

Applications must have current UK professional registration.

For questions about the job, contact:
Hiring Manager, Gaenor Feelie, View email address on meeveem.com, View phone number on meeveem.com