Specialist Pharmacist

Job summary

Main duties of the job

Be responsible for providing a ward based clinical pharmacy service across a variety of rotations including:

General Surgery, Acute Medicine (where you can experience working alongside our advanced clinical practitioners in ED), Paediatrics, ITU and Specialty Medicine including Frailty services.

Participate in a 1 in 24 on call and backup on call rota.

Provide Medication History Taking, Medicines Reconciliation, provision of Patient Information and Counselling and ward-based discharge to an allocated clinical ward or area according to the rotation.

Deliver pharmaceutical care to patients; recommend, substantiate and communicate best therapeutic options for patients and implement changes in prescribing practice to ensure evidence-based medicine is followed as appropriate.

Undertake clinical audit of medicine use and pharmacy services within WAHT.

Provide the clinical professional check on prescriptions dispensed within the dispensary, ensuring that the Trust high cost drug procedure and Trust Formulary is adhered to.

Provide day to day clinical supervision and act as a role model for trainee pharmacists, band 6 pharmacists, technical pharmacy staff and students as assigned.

Provide clinical pharmacy teaching to pharmacy, medical and nursing staff.

Provide weekend pharmacy services on rota.

Job responsibilities

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.