Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

Job overview

A position has become available within the Clinical Pharmacist team at the Southend Hospital site.

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 currently 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.

The successful candidate will therefore 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.

The post will involve rotations within varied specialist clinical areas including general medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, department of medicine for the elderly and technical services, as well as contributing to the provision of the 'on-call' service.

So, if this sounds like the right role for you - please apply today.

Main duties of the job

• Providing a clinical service to the wards, discharge service, outpatients, technical services unit 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 medicine's 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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more details on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached job description. We look forward to your application!