Band 6 Rotational Support Pharmacist

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust is seeking qualified pharmacists to join our hospital pharmacy teams. You will rotate through multiple specialties, work with our PICs system to reconcile medicines, optimise patient therapies, and verify discharge prescriptions while supporting weekend and on-call services.

You will also act as the Responsible Pharmacist in dispensaries and contribute to ensuring safe, effective medicines management for patients admitted via the Acute Medical

Qualifications

• Qualified pharmacists ready to begin a hospital pharmacy career.
• Willingness to rotate through multiple specialties.
• Able to work weekends, bank holidays, late nights and provide on-call services.

Responsibilities

• Review medicines reconciliations using PICs and optimise patients' medications.
• Verify discharge prescriptions and ensure safe and effective medicines use.
• Provide medicines reconciliation at admission for the Acute Medical Unit.
• Serve as the Responsible Pharmacist in main dispensaries and support workflow.
• Clinically screen clinic charts across a wide range of specialties.

Skills

Medicines reconciliation

Clinical screening

Medication optimisation

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Weekend/on-call support

Job description

We are looking for hard working individuals ready for a new challenge to help support the delivery of high quality care in one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country.

Our size and resources enable us to offer a range of attractive benefits as well as unparalleled education and development opportunities for staff at all levels. This includes an extensive portfolio of academic and clinical courses and programmes ranging from ongoing personal development through to clinical excellence and leadership skills.

You will have the opportunity to rotate through a number of specialties at the respective site. Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) will offer emergency medicine, trauma and orthopaedics, oncology, cardiology, renal, neurology, general medicine and liver.

You will be encouraged to undertake a clinical diploma or equivalent RPS Foundation pathway and subsequently non-medical prescribing qualification. You will also be supported by formal induction training and dedicated time for education and training.

We welcome qualified pharmacists in all sectors wanting to begin a career in hospital pharmacy.

UHB prides itself on its investment in staff both in terms of developing career skills but also its commitment to staff health and wellbeing., We are looking for hard working individuals ready for a new challenge to help support the delivery of high quality care in one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country. Due to a number of promotions in the team to support expansion of our services, we are looking for a number of pharmacists to join our team. You will have the opportunity to rotate through a number of specialities.

Using our advanced electronic patient record and prescription tool PICs, you will work alongside our technical team to review medicines reconciliations, optimise patient's medications and verify discharge prescriptions.

You will provide an extended service to the Acute Medical Unit as part of a larger clinical team to support medicines reconciliation at the point of admission ensuring excellent care to patients admitted to UHB.

You will work as the Responsible Pharmacist in our main dispensaries supporting the workflow as well as clinically screening clinic charts from a wide variety of specialities.

This post holder will work weekends and bank holidays as per rotas, as well as a late-night service in our dispensaries and providing on-call services with support from a more experienced pharmacist.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.