Main area Pharmacy Grade 8a Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time
• Flexible working

Employer Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Great Western Hospital Town Swindon Salary £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 06/08/2025 23:59

Practice Educator and Clinical Pharmacist

8a

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a unique organisation, serving as the sole integrated provider in the Bath and North East Somerset, Swindon, and Wiltshire system. Our scope extends beyond boundaries as we oversee adult community services in Swindon and provide acute care from the Great Western Hospital.

Our 5,500 staff have 1.2m patient contacts a year, with 13,000 operations carried out in our Theatres, around 4,000 babies born, and our emergency attendances are now well over 100,000 per year. Those numbers only tell part of our story about what an exciting time it is to join Great Western Hospitals.

We are cultivating a culture that fosters our ambitions, prioritising equality, diversion, inclusion, wellbeing, and leadership. We aim to create an environment where every member of our team can truly thrive.

The Trust is a Disability Confident Employer; all applicants who have a disability can opt to be considered under the guaranteed interview scheme, which means that, providing they meet the minimum essential criteria for the post, they will be offered an interview. We are also proudly accredited as a Veteran Aware organisation and have signed The Armed Forces Covenant.

If we receive a high volume of applications, we may close adverts prior to the published closing date. Therefore, we advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

Job overview

We are looking for an outstanding individual keen to develop a role in academia complemented by a clinical role working in an acute hospital. This is an exciting opportunity for a pharmacist looking for a unique cross sector position. This joint appointment with the University of Bath will involve working collaboratively with other practice educators to design, deliver and assess practice based learning elements of the pharmacy undergraduate degree course including Bath's very successful Clinical Learning in Practice (CLIP) model. The successful individual will be required to cover a range of face-to-face teaching activities and elements of assessment. There is also a requirement to provide pastoral support to individual students. As a clinical pharmacist there is the opportunity to practice as a non-medical prescriber. The post holder will divide their time equally between working for the University of Bath

Main duties of the job

Main Purpose of the Job
Working in a 50:50 split between GWH Pharmacy and UoB's Department of Pharmacy and Pharmacology,
the post-holder will provide specialist clinical pharmacy services to agreed areas within the hospital. They
will primarily be based at GWH and lead the local design, delivery and assessment of practice-based learning for undergraduate pharmacy students at UoB, with some off-site and campus-based teaching by agreement.

To support responsible person and deputies in ensuring that the facilities and service are compliant with all
aspects of Good Distribution Practice (EU GDP 2013/C 343/01), and all other relevant medicines regulations and quality standards. To manage related training provision to all operational staff within the facility. To act as an operational lead in any relevant aspects of regulatory audit (internal and external).

Working for our organisation

We will expect your values and behaviours to reflect the STAR Values of the organisation:

• Service- We will put our patients first
• Teamwork- We will work together
• Ambition- We will aspire to provide the best service
• Respect- We will act with integrity

Swindon is set in the rolling hills of the Cotswolds to the North and West, the Upper Thames valley to the East, and the Marlborough Downs to the South. Its surrounding countryside is dotted with pretty villages and enticing rural pubs.

There are excellent local schools, local sporting and golfing facilities, and there is a thriving local theatre and two large cinema complexes. Other cultural opportunities abound in London, Bristol, Oxford and Bath, all of which are within one hour’s travelling time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Design, deliver, and assess high quality teaching and learning to undergraduate and postgraduate students which is informed by significant professional expertise gained via practice, research/study and teaching experience. This will include identification of learning objectives and teaching methods, development of materials and resources, and direct facilitation of in-person teaching sessions.
• To practise as a specialist clinical pharmacist as agreed with the clinical lead and relevant deputy. This will involve ward and dispensary clinical work and contributing to the ongoing operational provision of the pharmacy service according to departmental rotas.

Please see attached job description for full details.

Person specification

Qualifications

• MPharm Degree
• Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Postgraduate diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy, community pharmacy or similar
• Commitment to own continuous professional development (CPD)
• Appropriate teaching qualification or professional recognition (e.g. PGCert, FHEA or equivalent)
• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
• Non-medical prescriber

Experience

• Highly experienced as qualified pharmacist
• Experience in a senior clinical pharmacy position
• Experience of design, delivery and assessment of undergraduate-level teaching and learning

Thank you for expressing interest in this role. For further employer guidance, please review the attached supplementary applicant information.

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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, subject to eligibility of the role for a skilled worker visa and salary requirements. Not all roles in the Trust are eligible for sponsorship.

Eligibility for this role requires:

• Current right to work in the UK, subject to verification.
• Qualification of the eligibility sponsorship criteria

Current employees should be aware that this position is advertised as a Great Western Hospitals position and appointment ends any TUPE protection.

Candidates are responsible for covering the cost of their own DBS check if required: £21.50 for a Standard DBS check, recoverable from the first pay, or £49.50 for an Enhanced DBS check, divided and recoverable over the initial two pay periods. Payment for DBS checks for bank posts must be settled prior to commencement. Apprentices are exempt from DBS payment.

We are committed to supporting our staff in achieving a healthy work-life balance through flexible work arrangements. Upon joining the Trust, you have the right to request flexible working, with an unlimited number of requests allowed.

Upon acceptance of a job offer, your information will be transferred to the national NHS Electronic Staff Records System. All communication regarding your application will be conducted via email; please ensure to check your junk/spam folders as emails may occasionally be filtered there.

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.

Name Tom Wareing Job title Lead Pharmacist Email address t.wareing@nhs.net Telephone number 01793 605030 Additional information

Additional Contact at GWH NHS Foundation Trust: Claire Oates - Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager:claire.oates1@nhs.net

For further information about the university part of this role, contact Sarah Crawshaw, Director of Practice Based Learning, Department of Pharmacy & Pharmacology, University of Bath via email: sc2715@bath.ac.uk