Agenda for Change pharmacist job profiles published by DoH
Agenda for Change: the clinical pharmacist family of job profiles is published |
Job profiles for five pharmacist roles have now been published by the Department of Health as part of Agenda for Change. A post-registration pharmacist role and four grades of clinical pharmacist role have been profiled.
The Agenda for Change pay scale has eight bands, with the top band (eight)
split into four ranges (a,b,c and d).
The post-registration pharmacist and clinical pharmacist roles have been
assigned to band six, with a basic salary range in 2003-4 of £20,955-£28,387.
The post-registration pharmacist role involves a structured rotation through
a range of pharmacy services. The job profile for the clinical pharmacist
role covers providing clinical pharmacy services, supervising provision
of pharmacy services by less experienced staff and advising junior medical
staff and nurses on pharmacy matters. Both profiles include the provision
of out of hours emergency pharmacy services.
The specialist clinical pharmacist role is assigned to band seven, with
a salary range of £25,290-£33,342. This role involves delivering
clinical pharmacy services to a clinical area, undertaking ward rounds,
reviewing drug charts and undertaking teaching and clinical supervision
of less experienced pharmacists and technicians.
Holders of the highly specialist clinical pharmacist post will be responsible
for leading and delivering specialist clinical pharmacy services to a directorate
and providing expert advice on pharmaceutical matters to a specialist clinical
area. This role is in band eight (ranges a and b), with a salary range
of £32,258-£46,451.
The principal clinical pharmacist or clinical pharmacy services manager
is responsible for delivering, managing and developing clinical pharmacy
services to a trust, undertaking risk management and providing leadership
for clinical audit. This role is in band eight (ranges b and c) and has
a salary range of £37,574-£55,742.
These profiles are currently in draft form, and may be subject to review
based on the experience at the 12 early implementer sites.
Staff who work unsocial hours will receive a supplement to their basic
salary. For example, those in bands one to seven working between five and
nine hours per week in the evening or at weekends will receive a supplement
of 9 per cent of their basic pay. Overtime will be paid at time-and-a-half,
except for public holidays which will be double-time. A further payment,
the high-cost area supplement, will be made to pharmacists working in or
around London.
Agenda for Change applies to all NHS staff, except doctors and dentists,
and is intended to harmonise conditions of service and ensure that staff
receive equal pay for work of equal value.All staff will be contracted
for 37.5 hours a week. Pharmacists currently working 39 hours a week will
see their hours drop to 37.5 per week on implementation of Agenda for Change.Current
levels of pay will be protected until April 2011 (October 2009 for early
implementer sites). Agenda for Change is due to be launched nationally
in October 2004.
Further information is available from the Department of Health website |
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