Job overview
We are recruiting for a Rotational Pharmacist Specialist - Pharmacy Lister who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
This post is a 12 month fixed term maternity leave cover. It will give you an opportunity to work alongside and learn from our expert pharmacists in a vast number of areas.
We are looking for a highly motivated pharmacist to join our award winning, innovative, patient-centred pharmacy team. We are a friendly department and will support you to become an outstanding clinical pharmacist and help you fulfil your full potential.
We offer a structured rotational program which includes specialities such as ED, acute medicine, critical care, endocrinology, respiratory, Frailty, gastroenterology, vascular surgery, aseptic oncology / haematology and a renowned renal services unit, working with a Consultant Renal Pharmacist.
We will develop your portfolio of skills to prepare you for more senior roles within the department through involvement in directorate and project work focused on improving quality of clinical services and patient-focused care.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will join the multidisciplinary team and provide expert pharmacy services to a variety of inpatient wards.
Within the role, you will utilise specialist pharmaceutical skills to drive innovation and continuous improvement within selected specialties.
You will also support Pharmacy Team Leads for Unplanned Care and Planned Care, in directorate reporting, audits, guideline/policy updates and financial and medicines information.
The successful candidate will be a clinical mentor and guide junior pharmacists, foundation trainee pharmacists throughout their training programmes.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
* Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
* Master Degree MPharm
* Competency assessed and examined professional registration MRPharmS
* Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
* Certificate in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent or successful completion of General Practice Diploma Core Course and examination
* Completion or working towards Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
* Appropriate post qualification experience in hospital pharmacy
* Previous experience in providing clinical ward services
* Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
* Training Foundation Trainee Pharmacists and Junior Staff
* Proven experience of audit
Desirable criteria
* Project management
* Clinical tutoring of post graduate trainee pharmacist
Skills
Essential criteria
* Able to demonstrate clinical skills
* Excellent communication skills verbal and written
* Ability to use initiative
* Able to work alone or in a team
* Able to prioritise work and meet deadlines
* Good workplace organisational skills
* Attention to detail
* Problem solving skills
* Negotiation skills
* Presentation skills (proven experience of giving presentations)
* Time management
Desirable criteria
* Able to work under pressure
* Leadership skills
* Can show appropriate applications of clinical knowledge and effective pharmaceutical care skills
* Critical appraisal skills
Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Good Clinical Knowledge
* Prescription Monitoring
* Computer and IT literate
* Need for confidentiality
* Professional attitude
* Team player
* Flexible
* Innovative
* Self-motivating
* Experience of communication with a consultant
* Able to demonstrate reflective practice
* Experience and evidence of engagement around equality, diversity and inclusion issues in relation to policy, service development and service delivery in respect of both services to users and the management of staff
Desirable criteria
* Role model our Trust values every day