Responsibilities
As a Band 7 Senior Rotational Pharmacist you will gain wide ranging experience across all aspects of hospital pharmacy and will be integral to providing a Clinical Pharmacy Service to core wards on a rotational basis. You will participate in a remote on‑call service and will work late nights, weekends and bank holidays on rota. You will also attend regular meetings with the Lead Pharmacist for each speciality to facilitate learning objectives and provide clinical support where needed.
- Clinical rotations: Cardiology, Respiratory, Care of the Elderly, General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Admissions, Aseptics (including haematology‑oncology).
You should be an excellent communicator, able to work independently and as part of a team. You will be working towards a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy and in your second year you will be encouraged to obtain qualification as a Pharmacist Prescriber.
Experience
- Experience of hospital pharmacy service delivery, either from employment within the hospital service, or by working closely with it.
- Continuing Professional Development to the mandatory requirements of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Training and experience include dispensary services, clinical pharmacy and medicines information.
- Practical application of Clinical Governance, Medicines Management, Clinical Risk Management and Health & Safety.
- Use of a pharmacy software programme, and a range of office functions such as MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Previous pharmacy teaching experience.
Skills and Abilities
- Able to dispense accurately and to undertake clinical and accuracy checking of work undertaken by others.
- Able to communicate effectively with patients, medical, nursing and other staff as well as with primary care practitioners, pharmaceutical companies and other agencies, verbally and in writing.
- Able to communicate complex or contentious information to individuals or groups and deal with challenges.
- Able to influence and persuade patients and professionals with respect to safe, economical and effective use of medicines.
- Able to prepare effective policy, procedure and guideline documents.
- Able to negotiate solutions to problems.
- Able to deliver specialist training to groups of staff, including pharmacy, medical and nursing staff.
- Ability to identify and report clinical risks in relation to the prescribing and administration of medicines and to promote safe practice.
- Ability to analyse drug usage and expenditure data and identify relevant issues for action by the speciality or directorate.
- Able to undertake and teach accurate calculation of drug dosage by all relevant means.
- Ability to plan, prioritise and reorganise daily, weekly and monthly workload in the face of changing and competing demands on time.
- Able to enlist help of others when necessary.
- Able to organise and implement training sessions, audits and other service development projects and to meet agreed deadlines.
- Ability to co‑ordinate activities of junior staff to ensure appropriate outcomes, e.g. in anticoagulant and discharge management.
- Analysis and critical appraisal of published clinical evidence.
- Analysis and appraisal of prescribed medication regimes for individual patients with respect to the patient’s clinical condition and ability, while taking account of safety, economy and effectiveness.
- Analysis of pharmacotherapeutic monitoring data such as for anticoagulation.
- Able to affect and manage change.
Qualifications
- Vocational Masters degree in pharmacy.
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Working towards postgraduate qualification (PG Diploma) in pharmacy or equivalent relevant to the post.
- Junior (supervisory) management training.
- Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
Knowledge and Awareness
- Knowledge of Medicines & Pharmacy Legislation, professional ethics, Health and Safety and the wider Health Service.
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance, Medicines Management, Risk Management, NICE guidance, National Service Frameworks, Shared Care Guidelines and the modernisation agenda relevant to the post.
- Knowledge of theoretical and practical issues, including professional guidelines, related to use of medicines and practice of pharmacy in specialist areas.
- Understanding and practical experience of audit.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and, as such, 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.
Equality and Diversity
Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity and fair treatment for all applicants.
