Job Introduction
We are seeking an experienced Clinical HIV Pharmacist to become an integral part of our Coventry and Warwickshire Sexual Health Service.
At HCRG Care Group we are dedicated to enhancing health and care services. With a commitment to constant improvement and innovation, we are shaping the future of healthcare. We have recently been successful in securing a contract to deliver an Integrated Sexual Health Service, including an NHS England commissioned HIV treatment service across Coventry and Warwickshire. The service will commence on 1st April 2024.
The service encompasses the provision of integrated specialised sexual health services (Genitourinary Medicine, Contraception and Sexual Health services, National Chlamydia Screening Programme (NCSP) and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis), and delivery of the C-card (condom-distribution) scheme, with a particular focus on the use of IT to support access to, and delivery of, services.
Job Purpose:
As the Clinical HIV Pharmacist, you will play a vital role in our Coventry and Warwickshire Sexual Health service, working collaboratively with a dedicated team to deliver exceptional patient care. Your responsibilities will revolve around providing patient-centered pharmaceutical expertise, ensuring the optimal use of medications and adherence to BHIVA Standards 2018.
Operating across four hubs in Coventry, Leamington Spa, Nuneaton and Rugby, you will lead in delivering specialized pharmaceutical care within the Sexual Health service. Your role will be central to supporting patients with complex medical histories, requiring expertise in HIV pharmaceuticals and the ability to work autonomously within a supportive environment.
Main Responsibility
- Provide patient-centered pharmaceutical care within the HIV/Sexual Health service, adhering to BHIVA Standards 2018.
- Monitor patients for adverse effects and provide medication counselling and adherence support.
- Conduct medication reviews including reviews for complex regimens.
- Monitor HIV/Sexual Health and Infectious Diseases (ID) prescribing according to service and national guidelines.
- Act autonomously and intuitively, ensuring the continuity and coordination of care.
- Liaise with healthcare professionals, serving as a patient advocate and ensuring the procurement, supply and documentation of high-cost, unlicensed, and named-patient drugs.
- Participate in MDT meetings, contributing to decision-making processes for individual patients.
- Effectively communicate to patients, carers, and relevant healthcare professionals to ensure complex issues are understood both in written and verbal forms.
For a full list of the responsibilities of the role please see the attached Job Description
The Ideal Candidate
This role will require travel across the four service hubs making a Driving License and Car a necessary requirement for this role.
- MPharm or Equivalent Pharmacy degree and registration with GPhC.
- A Member of the BHIVA and HIVPA.
- Demonstrable experience in HIV pharmaceuticals and Sexual Health.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to convey complex information clearly.
- Proven ability to work autonomously and within a multidisciplinary team.
- Comprehensive understanding of relevant standards and legislation.
- Experience with High-cost drugs
- A proactive and adaptive approach to patient care and service development.
For a full list of requirements for the role, please see the attached Job Description
Package Description
This service is due to commence 1st April 2024 and so are looking for an immediate start from this date.
As a Band 8a Clinical HIV Pharmacist, you’ll be part of our valued team within our Coventry and Warwickshire Sexual Health Service.
You will feel valued as a Clinical HIV Pharmacist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £50,952 - £57,349 (Band 8A) Agenda for change salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
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