Are you working within community pharmacy or primary care and want to experience a more patient-focussed and clinical career, wit.....
Are you working within community pharmacy or primary care and want to experience a more patient-focussed and clinical career, with opportunities for completing your diploma, funded NMP, have dedicated training and education opportunities and great pension and holiday benefits?
Are you working in hospital and want a change in location, career or work/life balance?
If your answers are yes, we have the perfect opportunity for you to join our award-winning pharmacy team.
You will have the opportunity to rotate around a variety of clinical specialties including; medicine, surgery, paediatrics, critical care, chemotherapy/aseptics and our AMU and ED department.
As a band 7 pharmacist you will additionally take on directorate or specialty responsibility and be the link person between the pharmacy directorate and that directorate/specialty. We will support you to enhance your learning in your specialty and other professional development needs (e.g. recruitment, quality improvement projects, training juniors), so you become a recognised local leader in your field and a role model within the pharmacy team.
• You will be responsible for ensuring safe prescribing, medicines optimisation and medicines management on your ward and will be a key link in the multi-disciplinary team looking after the people admitted to these wards.
• You will be supported to complete your post-graduate diploma if you are part way through.
• You will be supported to undertake your non-medical prescribing qualification.
• You will benefit from weekly training and education sessions from specialist pharmacists or other healthcare professionals
• You will participate in our weekend service, working Saturday & Sunday every 7-8 weeks, with compensatory rest days taken the following week.
• You will participate in the late-night and/or on-call rotas at a frequency of 1 shift in 3 weeks. Two pharmacists work in the dispensary until it closes at 7pm, after which on-call is undertaken from home by a third pharmacist who has a work laptop and mobile.
Pharmacy is a large and forward-thinking department. Whilst being spread across sites and having a large number of staff we are very welcoming to all and have a fantastic legacy of assistants, technicians and pharmacists who have worked with us for very many years, several of whom have progressed in their roles within ELHT Pharmacy.
We have a large cohort of Non-Medical Prescribers (NMPs) and are actively encouraging all our pharmacists to become NMPs, with plans in place for our staff up until the registration of trainee pharmacists in 2026 who will have this qualification embedded into their undergraduate degree.
We have strong links with our local universities with three teacher practitioners who support junior pharmacists and provide teaching to medical and pharmacy undergraduates.
In addition to our clinical specialist pharmacists, we have dedicated pharmacy staff working within; Homecare, Rheumatology, Medicines Information and the Medicines Support Team (a department dedicated to supporting patients post-discharge and optimising their medicines with home visits and recommendations to their GP/healthcare provider).
We have specialist pharmacists delivering dermatology and cardiology out-patient clinics, undertaking independent patient assessment, consultation and prescribing. We are keen to support the professional development of our staff and look to the future of Consultant Pharmacist roles at the Trust.
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If you would like any further information, or would like to arrange a visit, please contact:
Hannah Robinson or Emma Watson (Clinical Services Lead Pharmacists), or in their absence any Senior Clinical Pharmacist on 01254 733740.
This advert closes on Wednesday 11 Dec 2024
