Bank Pharmacist

Spire Healthcare Group; Bushey; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 41,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Weekly pay

Access to Spire Healthcare pension

Blue Light Card discounts

Free uniform

Free DBS

Full induction and mandatory training

Opportunities for progression

Job summary

Spire Bushey Hospital is recruiting for an experienced Bank Clinical Pharmacist to join our Pharmacy department. You must have NHS or Private Hospital experience and hold GPhC registration.

This flexible contract role offers opportunities to support a range of specialties, work across departments, and develop expertise in clinical pharmacy within a hospital setting. Training, induction, and access to Spire's professional development are provided.

Qualifications

• Pharmacists educated to degree level.
• Current GPhC registration with a minimum of 1 year post qualifying practice in hospital settings.
• Post qualifying hospital experience is essential.
• Non-medical prescribing would be advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice and support to consultants, nurses and clinicians ensuring safe, appropriate, and cost-effective use of medicines throughout the hospital.
• Build strong working relationships with colleagues and consultants to improve patient outcomes.
• Promote multidisciplinary, patient-focused delivery of high-quality healthcare services.
• Suggest new processes/new equipment to improve health outcomes and safety.

Skills

Excellent communicator

Education

Pharmacy degree

GPhC registration

Job description

Bank Clinical Pharmacist | Pharmacy Department | Spire Bushey Hospital | Hertfordshire | Private Hospital | Flexible Working Contract | Excellent benefits

Spire Bushey Hospital is currently recruiting for an experienced Clinical Pharmacist to join our friendly Pharmacy department to join the bank. You MUST have NHS or Private Hospital experience.

Spire Bushey Hospital forms part of a 4 site portfolio, and is supported by and works alongside Spire Bushey Diagnostic Centre, Elstree Cancer Centre and Spire Pathology Centre. Our theatre team cover a wide variety of specialties including Ortho, Bariatric, General, Gyane, ENT, Urology, Plastics, Ophthalmics, Spinal.

At Spire Healthcare, caring is our passion and our vision is to be recognised as a world class healthcare business. We’re committed to looking after people, both patients and colleagues.

Duties and Responsibilities:

Spire Bushey Hospital is a great place to develop your skills, because we are always looking for our Pharmacists to keep up to date with the latest developments in prescribing practice. We are regularly broadening the range of clinical services we offer, which brings opportunities for our Pharmacists to advance their knowledge in treating different patient groups, conditions and treatments.

• All our clinical teams are focused on delivering personalized 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
• To promote a multidisciplinary, patient focused approach to the delivery of an efficient, high quality healthcare service

Who we're looking for:

• Pharmacists educated to degree level
• Current GPhC registration with a minimum of 1 year post qualifying practice in Hospital settings
• Post qualifying experience working in a Hospital setting is ESSENTIAL
• Someone who is looking for the challenge of delivering a comprehensive pharmacy service within a hospital setting
• Excellent communicator as you will interact with patients across various departments to find out their pharmaceutical requirements
• Non-medical prescribing would be advantageous

Benefits

• Bank colleagues are paid weekly
• We offer competitive rates to our bank colleagues who work on a flexible basis, often to cover busy periods, sickness, or annual leave
• Access to Spire Healthcare pension
• Access to Blue Light Card discounts
• Free uniform
• Free DBS
• Full induction, including mandatory training updates
• Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
• Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team

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
• Delivering on our promises
• 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 healthcare group in the United Kingdom, running 38 hospitals and over 50 clinics across England, Wales and Scotland. It provides diagnostics, inpatient, day case and outpatient care, operates a network of private GPs and provides workplace health services to over 800 corporate clients. It also delivers a range of private and NHS mental health, musculoskeletal and dermatological services.

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.

For us, it's more than just treating patients; it's about looking after people.