Bank Pharmacist Band 6/7

Royal Free Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Pharmacist to provide exceptional professional pharmacy services as Responsible Pharmacist, supporting the Senior Pharmacist and the pharmacy team across outpatient sites.

You will help ensure a high quality patient and customer experience, contribute to service development, and uphold Royal Free London values in line with NHS standards. Applicants must hold GPhC registration and a Masters in Pharmacy.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in pharmacy and GPhC registration.
• Postgraduate certificate in clinical pharmacy or willingness to undertake.
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy.

Responsibilities

• Clinical responsibilities as Responsible Pharmacist and support to Senior Pharmacist.
• Support to the pharmacy team and development of services.
• Ensure high quality patient and customer experience across sites.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy knowledge

Communication skills

Teamwork

Education

Masters degree in Pharmacy

GPhC registration

Postgraduate certificate in clinical pharmacy

Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy

Job description

Our current vacancies

If you want to be part of the Royal Free London team, search our current vacancies below to find the job for you.

Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a set of technology that can perform various tasks that typically required human intelligence. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role. We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants.However, it’s important that examples and responses genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey. Further guidance can be found in the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1 .

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring that its recruitment processes are carried out with integrity, transparency, and fairness for all applicants. To help maintain these standards, we ask candidates to provide accurate and truthful information throughout the recruitment process.

If incorrect or misleading information is identified, this may affect the progression of an application, any employment offer, or continued employment. As part of our due diligence, the company may verify the information provided by applicants and take appropriate act ion where necessary.

We do not charge applicants any fees at any stage of the recruitment process, including applications, interviews, sponsorship arrangements, pre-employment checks, or employment offers. All vacancies are advertised through TRAC/NHS Jobs and candidates are assessed solely on their skills, qualifications, experience, and suitability for the role. If you are asked to make a payment in connection with an NHS job opportunity, please treat this as suspicious and contact the organisation directly using the details published on our official career's website

As a Pharmacist, you will be responsible for the provision of exceptional professional pharmacy services. The focus of your role will be to act as Responsible Pharmacist, provide support to the Senior Pharmacist, the rest of the pharmacy team and support the development of the business. You will help in ensuring a high quality patient and customer experience is maintained.

The post holder will be part of a high performing team that is expected to demonstrate behaviours that promote the outpatient pharmacies and Royal Free London values. This means that in undertaking this role the post holder is expected at all times to behave in a way that demonstrates commitment to the delivery of respectful and compassionate care across all sites.

**VISA SPONSORSHIP DOES NOT APPLY TO THIS ROLE**

Main duties of the job

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• *Clinical Responsibilities
• *Responsible for Patient
• *Responsibility for policy and service development
• *Responsibility for financial and physical resources
• *Responsibility for leading and managing
• *Responsibility for information resources
• *Responsibility for research and development
• *Educational responsibilities
• *Professional responsibilities
• *Additional duties/responsibilities as assigned

**For further information please refer to the attached JD/PS**

Working for our organisation

Conflict of Interest
The Trust is responsible for ensuring that the services for patients in its care meet the highest standards. Equally, it is responsible for ensuring that staff do not abuse their official position, to gain or benefit themselves, their family or friends.

Equality and Diversity
The Trust values equality and diversity in employment and in the services we provide. It is committed to promoting equality and diversity in employment and will keep under review our policies and procedures to ensure that the job related needs of all staff working in the Trust are recognised. The Trust aims to ensure that all job applicants, employees or clients are treated fairly and valued equally regardless of sex, marital status, domestic circumstances, age, race, colour, disablement, ethnic or national origin, social background or employment status, sexual orientation, religion, beliefs, HIV status, gender reassignment, political affiliation or trade union membership. Selection for training and development and promotion will be on the basis of the individual’s ability to meet the requirements for the job.

You are responsible for ensuring that the Trust’s policies, procedures and
obligation in respect of promoting equality and diversity are adhered to inrelation to both staff and services.
No Smoking
The Trust implemented a No Smoking Policy, which applies to all staff. Staffcontravening this policy will be subject to disciplinary procedures.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Job Descriptions for both the Band 6 and Band 7 positions are attached and long with the Personal Specifications for you to review.

If you are successful at being shortlisted you will be invited to interview and assessed for the relevant grade offered.

**For further information please refer to the attached JD/PS**

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

• Masters degree or equivalent in pharmacy
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) must be in place before starting the position
• Successfully completed postgraduate at certificate level in clinical pharmacy or equivalent or willing to undertake
• Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Personal Qualities

• Enthusiastic/positive attitude, self-motivated and hardworking
• Accurate/meticulous
• Reliable with good attendance record

Skills and aptitudes

• Demonstrates general clinical knowledge and skills
• Good written and verbal communication skills
• Good interpersonal skills Effective pharmaceutical skills
• Ability to manage time effectively
• Ability to communicate with patients and staff of all levels
• Ability to work alone and as part of a team
• Demonstrates initiative particularly in relation to problem solving
• Ability to carry out day to day responsibilities and deal effectively with unpredictable/acute demands
• Understanding of clinical risk and clinical governance
• Previous experience of delivering training to junior colleagues
• Understanding of NHS national and local priorities
• Implements finding of clinical and practice-based research

Experience

• Demonstrable experience working in hospital pharmacy
• Broad-based clinical experience
• Evidence of clinical audit / practice research
• Training Experience
• Experience of managing others

Royal Free shared commitments

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust's shared commitments
• AT* - Apprenticeship Training. Where AT* is entered next to the job title indicates that this vacancy is for an apprenticeship role.
• By applying for this role, you accept if successful, that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS.This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which aims at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.Therefore we require you to complete your stat and Man e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.
• Some administrative recruitment activities may be undertaken using automated workflow and robotic process automation technologies. These tools assist authorised staff in processing recruitment records and employment checks but do not make decisions regarding your employment.
• If you are an EU/EEA citizen who does not have EU Settlement or Pre-Settled status, you will require a visa to work in the UK.
• You must already have the right to work in the United Kingdom or fully meet the eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa route. We welcome applications from candidates who require visa sponsorship; however, we can only consider these where all UKVI requirements are met. Before applying, please ensure that both you and the role satisfy the relevant UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) points-based system criteria, as applications that do not meet these requirements cannot be progressed. For more information about the criteria, please click here
• If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks youridentity and right to work documentation will be verifiedremotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
• The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
• The Trust will request a DBS(CRB) if post involves regulated activities. The Trust is compliant with the Disclosure and Barring Service Codes of practice and the Rehabilitation of offenders act.
• By applying for this post you are agreeing to Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders