Bank Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust; Ilford; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust is hiring Advanced Clinical Pharmacists to join their Staff Bank, supporting mental health and community health services. This role offers a chance to deliver comprehensive pharmacy services with flexible working patterns and great benefits in a supportive team environment.

Benefits

Competitive hourly rates and weekly pay

Access to paid annual leave and statutory sick pay

Access to the NHS pension scheme

Paid mandatory training

Flexibility of hours/location

Priority over agency staff for booking shifts

Opportunity to apply for permanent posts

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years post graduate experience.
• Knowledge to assess patients with complex presentations.

Responsibilities

• Work within mental health services to ensure medicines optimisation.
• Provide clinical pharmacy services in inpatient and community settings.
• Support the development of medicines optimisation initiatives.

Skills

Assessment Skills

Clinical Decision Making

Education

Pharmacy Degree (MPharm or equivalent)

GPhC registered

Job description

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT) are seeking Advanced Clinical Pharmacists (Band 8a) to join the Staff Bank, who will support the team, department and organisation to achieve the Trust’s mission of “Best care by the best people”.

NELFT provided a wide range of community and mental health services to a large population across Goodmayes and North East London. The clinical pharmacy team has an outsourced provision for medicines dispensing and supply, and therefore this role will be required to provide patient facing clinical services across our inpatient units.

We are looking for pharmacists to join this growing team to provide comprehensive clinical pharmacy services. We will in return give the opportunity for flexibility in working patterns and hours as well as opportunities to work in our Londonsites in Mental Health and/or Community Health Services. We look forward to receiving your application.

Main duties of the job

• Being part of a specialist pharmacy team working within mental health services (MHS) and community health services (CHS) ensuring that the changing medicines optimisation and pharmacy needs are being met across NELFT within the inpatient setting and community teams.
• Providing Clinical Pharmacy Service to both MHS and CHS inpatient wards and community teams
• Supporting the development and implementation of medicines optimisation initiatives within MHS and CHS. Promote high quality medicine use, effective risk management, clinical governance, and adherence to policies and guidelines concerning medicines use across all settings. They will support getting the best value from medicines spend within this area across all services within a scope of practice.
• Supporting and contributing to clinical audits.
• Developing and delivering the pharmacy relevant training packages to assist medical, nursing and pharmacy staff across MHS and CHS.
• Working closely with quality and patient safety teams to review quality and risk management issues related to pharmacy and medicine management.
• Providing a clinical ward pharmacy service to MHS and CHS in-patient wards and community teams within NELFT

Working for our organisation

We operate a Temporary Staffing service and offer our Bank Staff excellent benefits including:

• Competitive hourly rates and weekly pay;
• Access to paid annual leave and statutory sick pay;
• Access to the NHS pension scheme;
• Paid mandatory training;
• Opportunities for locally agreed training;
• PAMOVA training for Mental Health staff;
• Flexibility of hours/location;
• Priority over agency staff for booking shifts;
• Opportunity to apply for permanent posts.

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

For more information about working on the Temporary Staffing Bank please contact the Temporary Staffing Team on 0300 300 1530.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full details of this post are outlined in the attached job description.

Please contact temporary staffing recruitment if you have any further questions - [e-mail]

Person specification

Qualification

• Pharmacy Degree (MPharm or equivalent)
• GPhC registered

Experience

• Previous hospital experience.
• Minimum 2 years post graduate experience

knowledge

• Knowledge and skills to assess patients with complex presentations to arrive at clinical decisions

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link .

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities.If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email [e-mail].

Correspondence with us

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.