Bank Clinical Pharmacist

Spire Healthcare Ltd; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading independent hospital group as a Bank Clinical Pharmacist, where you will play a vital role in delivering personalized pharmacy services. This position offers the chance to work closely with patients and clinical teams, ensuring the safe and effective use of medications. You'll have the opportunity to improve health outcomes and support patient care in a collaborative and compassionate environment. If you're looking for a fulfilling role with a focus on patient interaction and clinical excellence, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Qualifications

• Degree in Pharmacy with current GPhC registration.
• Excellent communication skills for patient interaction.

Responsibilities

• Deliver personalized care and support to patients on the Ward.
• Provide advice on the safe use of medicines to clinical staff.

Skills

Pharmaceutical Care

Communication Skills

Clinical Assessment

Patient Counseling

Education

Pharmacy Degree

Job description

Bank Clinical Pharmacist | Pharmacy | Southend | Monday to Friday, some Saturdays.

Spire Wellesley Hospital has an exciting opportunity for a Bank Clinical Pharmacist. This role is ideally suited to someone who is looking for the challenge of delivering a comprehensive pharmacy service, as part of small friendly team, in a beautiful location.

Our Pharmacists are an integral part of a patients care plan, so you will have the opportunity to interact with patients across various departments to find out their pharmaceutical requirements, review medication history, current prescriptions and relevant clinical data.

Duties and responsibilities:

• All our clinical teams are focused on delivering personalised care, and our Pharmacists play a key role in treating patients with empathy and compassion
• You will provide advice and support to consultants, nurses and other clinicians ensuring the safe, appropriate and cost-effective use of medicines throughout the hospital
• Build strong working relationships with colleagues and consultants and to work together to improve patient outcomes.
• Suggest new processes/new equipment to improve health outcomes and increase safety throughout the hospital.
• The majority of your time will be spent on the Ward with patients, talking to, and supporting them with discharge medicines, counselling on side effects, and intake requirements.
• Supporting the onsite Prescribing Resident Doctor
• Dispensary is a minimal part of the position here at the Hospital, and the role is predominantly focused on the Ward patient support.

Who we're looking for:

• Pharmacists educated to degree level.
• Current GPhC registration
• Excellent communicator as you will interact with patients on the Ward to find out their pharmaceutical requirements.

We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness or annual leave.

Our Values

We are extremely proud of our heritage in private healthcare and of our values as an organisation:

• Driving clinical excellence
• Doing the right thing
• Caring is our passion
• Keeping it simple
• Succeeding and celebrating together

We commit to our employees well-being through work life balance, on-going development, support and reward.

Spire Healthcare is a leading independent hospital group in the United Kingdom and the largest in terms of revenue. From 39 hospitals and 8 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland, Spire Healthcare provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care.

For further information about this role or for an informal conversation about the range of career options available with Spire please contact Carly Dack on 07850725333 or email

Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, it's their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.

Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.