Clinical Pharmacist

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Clinical Rotational Pharmacist who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients and staff receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards great people, great place.

Exciting opportunities are available for enthusiastic and self-motivated Pharmacists with excellent interpersonal skills, to join our friendly and innovative Pharmacy Team based out of St Marys Hospital on the beautiful Isle of Wight

As a rotational clinical pharmacist, you will get the chance to work in many clinical areas including our Emergency Department and Acute Assessment Unit. You will also gain clinical experience in General Medicine, Stroke, Care of Older People, General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Mental Health, Oncology, Haematology and Hospice care.

These positions are band 6 to band 7 developmental roles which involve completion of a fully Trust funded post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy (with prescribing qualification). Further to this we will support you to develop your skills to match the RPS Foundation Pharmacist Framework and will provide training to support your leadership and management skills. There are also many other training opportunities with paid study leave available.

Main duties of the job

NHS Band 6:  Salary £39,959 to £48,117 per annum

Hours per Week:  37.5

Contract Type: Permanent

The Pharmacy Team provide a core weekday service with some weekend and on-call duties which post-holders will form part of. On-call pharmacist duties are undertaken from home and calls are first screened via the Trust Clinical Site Management Team to ensure they are appropriate. All pharmacists are supplied with their own Trust laptop at induction. Its possible to dispense urgent medication via your laptop from home through the robots out of hours shute if required.

The Pharmacy Team based out of St Marys Hospital are energetic and forward looking, with a strong culture of patient safety and service quality. We believe in technology supporting excellent clinical practice and releasing time to care, with the JAC electronic prescribing and medicines administration (EPMA) having been embedded in practice for over 10 years. It is used creatively to enhance clinical practice with a fully integrated Omnicell medicines management system that seamlessly interfaces EPMA with pharmacy dispensing, stock control, clinical area automated medicines cabinetry (Omnicells) and further robotics within the Pharmacy department

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This post is a developmental role with grade appropriate to experience, knowledge, skills and competencies gained.

This post provides support and underpinning of the clinical work of senior clinical pharmacists

Support to the Chemotherapy / Haematology Services, Mental Health Services, Urgent Care Services, Medicines Advice services, Patient Services and all wards will be on a rotational basis and competencies needed to provide this support will be attained through the pharmacist rotational training programme.

Medicines Reconciliation and drug history transcribing will be undertaken by the post holder to Trust standards.

Systems for facilitating discharge medicines to meet patients and general practitioners needs will be ensured by this post.

Liaison with pharmacy staff, nursing staff, Allied Health Professionals, Medical staff, GPs will be required to ensure information communication is clear and timely.

Clinical management, support and supervision to pre-registration pharmacists, clinical placements, and under-graduate vacation pharmacy students will be provided by this post.

Professional development opportunities may include palliative care, and paediatrics.

A yearly performance appraisal will be arranged by the Lead Clinical Pharmacist. It is an opportunity to review the post holder’s job description, development and training needs, performance over the year, and agree objectives for the following year