Job overview
You will be part of our band 6 rotational Foundation Training programme, which is aimed at helping you develop your knowledge and skills within the first 1000 days of practice. You will have the opportunity to deliver care across four sites - Newham University Hospital, St Bartholomew’s, The Royal London and Whipps Cross University Hospital in a structured developmental programme and undertake a postgraduate diploma to consolidate your core foundation skills.
For more details or for an informal chat please contact:
Funke Alimi-Omidiora, Deputy Head of Pharmacy, Royal London and Mile End Hospitals
Telephone: 020 3246 0135; Email:
Barts Health NHS Trust is one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers and the largest trust in the NHS.
Our vision is to create a world-class health organisation that builds on strong relations with our partners and the communities we serve. As members of UCL Partners, the largest academic health sciences system in the world, we aim to ensure that our patients are some of the first in the country to benefit from the latest drugs and treatments.
Disclaimer: The Trust reserve the right to bring the deadline forward without prior notice should we receive sufficient interest and applications for the posts.
Main duties of the job
To promote the responsible, safe and cost-effective prescribing of medicines within Barts Health to optimise clinical outcomes, minimise adverse reactions and improve medicines safety. The post holder will be supporting the clinical teams to deliver high quality clinical pharmacy services across the hospital sites.
To participate in the delivery of a comprehensive pharmacy service and to provide operational support to the department as agreed in the rotational programme.
When the opportunity arises, post holders will undertake a postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy to support their foundation years’ training.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.