37.5 hours per week (part time hours considered)
Permanent
Closing Date: 6th May 2025
Interview Date: 16th May 2025
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
We welcome applications from the Armed Forces Community - get in touch to find out more
Main duties of the job
As a Rotational Clinical Pharmacist you will work within various clinical specialities, such as:
* Acute Medicine
* Cardiology
* Endocrine
* Respiratory
* General & Emergency Surgery
* Care of the Elderly
You will work closely with the wider healthcare team to ensure medicines optimisation and safety throughout the patients stay with us. You will be required to display leadership and prioritisation skills in order to provide a high-quality pharmacy service to our trust.
Your day-to-day tasks will include medicines reconciliation, patient counselling, medicines information, discharge planning and clinical reviews.
You will also work within our Homecare, Oncology and TPN services.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to 'excel at patient care' taking centre stage. An ever evolving clinically- led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive health services delivered by inspiring and compassionate staff who share our corporate values:
Excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, extensive in-house course learning directory, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job responsibilities
Band 6
To provide a pharmacy service under supervision to wards and departments of the Trust as well as other Trusts and business partners serviced by the Pharmacy department so as to ensure safe and cost-effective use of medicines, in accordance with departmental procedures.
To provide pharmacy service to allocated wards in accordance with professional, departmental and Trust policies. This may include:
Taking drug histories on admission
Review of medication to ensure safe and effective use
Carrying out individual pharmaceutical care plans
Review and update of care plans depending on response, results of investigations and adverse effects
Therapeutic drug monitoring for specific drugs and advising dose adjustments based on assessment of blood levels of the drug
Education and counselling of patients about their medicines
Facilitating implementation of local & national guidelines as appropriate.
As an independent practitioner and advocate for the patient, challenge prescribers including specialist prescribers if prescription is considered in own judgement to be inappropriate for the patient
Communication of medicine-related information to patients & relatives (who may have language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities), prescribers & other health care professionals (who may challenge advice)
Advising, demonstrating & monitoring correct methods for preparation of injections and infusions (including intravenous injections)
Independent Prescribing for medicines optimisation
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Band 7
To provide a clinical service to wards and departments of the trust, as well as other trusts and business partners serviced by the pharmacy department, to ensure safe and cost-effective use of medicines, in accordance with departmental procedures.
To provide a clinical pharmacy service to allocated wards in accordance with professional, departmental and trust policies. This includes:
Undertaking medicines reconciliation on admission
Review of medication to ensure safe and effective use
Carrying out individual pharmaceutical care plans
Review and update of care plans depending on response, results of investigations, and adverse effects
Therapeutic drug monitoring for narrow therapeutic drugs, and advising dose adjustments on assessments of serum blood levels of the drug so as to minimise risk to patients and reduce un-necessary cost
Education and counselling of patients about their medicines
Developing evidence-based treatment protocols for use either within a directorate or across the trust as appropriate
Facilitating implementation of local and national guidelines as appropriate
Analysing drug charts and patient information in clinical specialist fields and providing advice on selection of appropriate medicines, and dosage in areas where information is lacking, and medical or other opinion differs
Challenge prescribers including specialist prescribers if the prescription is considered in own judgment to be inappropriate for the patient
Communication of medicines-related information to patients & relatives (who may have language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities), prescribers and other healthcare professionals (who may challenge advice)
Advising, demonstrating and monitoring correct methods of preparation of injections and infusions (including intravenous injections)
For a full comprehensive list of main responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to job description and personal specification attached.
Person Specification
Experience and Knowledge
* Qualified Registered Pharmacist
* Commitment to continuing professional development and education
* Sound knowledge base in clinical pharmacy
* Vocational master's degree in pharmacy (MPharm) or equivalent
* 1 year pre-registration training and experience
* Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
* Effective verbal and written communication skills
* Ability to work alone & within a team
* Organisational skills e.g. prioritising/time management for every day work
* Ability to cope in stressful situations and under pressure
* Pre-registration experience of >= 6months in hospital
* At least one year Post-registration experience in either hospital, community OR GP practice
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it 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.
£37,338 to £52,809 a yearper annum pro rata
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