Overview
A position has become available within the Clinical Pharmacist team at the Southend Hospital site to support the growing cancer service. This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated, open minded and dynamic pharmacist to support the delivery of our clinical pharmacy service. The current clinical pharmacists team comprises a welcoming, forward-thinking and vibrant group of individuals, always seeking to improve current ways of working to benefit the patients we serve and promote a harmonious working environment. You will need to be an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal/ relationship building skills. In return, we will offer you a range of career development opportunities, both on the Southend Hospital Site and the wider Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
Responsibilities
* Within Cancer service:
* Providing a clinical service to the wards, discharge service, outpatients, and other service users.
* Attend clinical ward rounds, clinical and multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate.
* Regularly recording clinical interventions and activities.
* Provide specialist pharmaceutical information to medical, nursing and other staff within the Trust where appropriate.
* Promote the safe, appropriate and economic use of drugs.
* Counsel and advise patients on use of medicines.
* Take part in the emergency On-call Pharmacist rota working alone as the On call Pharmacist providing medicines information, advice and supply out of hours and sourcing of urgently required drugs from external suppliers.
* To support the Trust Medication Safety Officer and Pharmacy Risk Governance Pharmacist with the medicines optimisation and governance agenda.
* Ensure clinical incidents e.g. dispensing or administration errors are reported promptly according to current risk management procedures.
* Monitor the safe and secure storage of medication both within the pharmacy department and on the wards.
* Facilitate implementation of local and national guidelines where appropriate e.g. NICE.
* Keep accurate patient medication and drug issue records using the Pharmacy Wellsky computer system.
* Supervise trainee pharmacists, undergraduate students and ward-based technicians.
Working for our organisation
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers. We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn\'t accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application.
Band
Band 7
About the Trust
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population. Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative. We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.
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