Band 8a Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Hemel Hempstead; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Join the Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as a Clinical Pharmacist, where you'll provide vital clinical pharmacy services to inpatient wards. This part-time role offers the opportunity to enhance patient care through medicines optimisation and education, while benefiting from flexible shifts and career progression opportunities.

Benefits

Flexible shifts

Access to Learning & Development opportunities

Paid annual leave

Qualifications

• Experience of working in mental health Multi-Disciplinary Teams.
• Previous hospital experience is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical pharmacy services to designated inpatient wards.
• Participate in consultant ward rounds to improve medicines optimisation.
• Provide medicines information to patients and carers.

Skills

Clinical Pharmacy

Evidence-based Information

Medicines Optimisation

Education

GPhC Registration

Job description

Trust: Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Location: Prospect Park Hospital, RG30 4EJ

Ward: Pharmacy

Why might this job interest you?

Are you a skilled and experienced Clinical Pharmacist, available on a part-time basis and ready to play a crucial role in inpatient care? Join our team at Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and help us make a difference!

Main duties of the job

1. Provide clinical pharmacy services to designated inpatient wards in line with local and national standards.
2. Participate in consultant ward rounds/MDTs to improve medicines optimisation.
3. Assist and support decisions made by clinicians by providing up-to-date evidence-based information to allow informed choices to be made.
4. Provide medicines information to patients and carers to educate them about their medicines in order to help improve concordance and medicines adherence.
5. Support ward staff to ensure that adequate ward pharmacy stock levels are maintained on allocated wards and to regularly review and adjust levels if necessary, depending on prescribing trends.

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression

Access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges.

Work-life Balance

Flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources, and paid annual leave.

Opportunity & Access

Over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description for a more detailed breakdown of the duties and responsibilities of this role.

Person Specification

Experience

• Experience of working in mental health Multi-Disciplinary Teams.
• Previous hospital experience is essential.

Qualifications

• GPhC Registration.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.