BANK - Pharmacist Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Dudley & Walsall Mental Health Trust; Walsall; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits a self-motivated Clinical Pharmacist to join a forward-thinking team dedicated to balancing patient care with professional development. This role offers rotational opportunities across various specialties and emphasizes a strong Quality Improvement ethos. Ideal for newly qualified or community pharmacists looking to transition, you'll engage in clinical duties, training, and risk assessments while working within a supportive and energetic team. This role promises to enhance your clinical skills and contribute positively to patient outcomes in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Benefits

Professional Development Opportunities

Supportive Team Environment

Flexible Working Hours

Access to Training Programs

Qualifications

• Pharmacy degree required, ideally suited for pre-registration or newly qualified pharmacists.
• Strong clinical knowledge and positive attitude essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive pharmaceutical services to Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust.
• Support safe prescribing and administration of medicines on allocated wards.

Skills

Clinical Pharmacy

Patient Care

Interpersonal Skills

Risk Assessment

Medicines Management

Education

Pharmacy Degree

Pre-registration Training

Tools

Pharmacy Electronic Systems

Clinical Audit Tools

Job description

PLEASE NOTE WE CANNOT OFFER SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS POST. ONLY APPLY IF YOU HAVE RIGHTS TO WORK IN THE UK.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a self-motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our team as a bank Clinical Pharmacist. With the current & future landscape for pharmacy professionals, we have aligned our clinical pharmacy strategy to develop a pharmacy team that can excel in balancing patient care and service demand with their own professional development. You will have rotational opportunities across several specialities along with opportunities to work as part of an MDT and develop your interpersonal, professional & clinical skills.

We are a forward-thinking department and are actively embedding pharmacist prescribers into our services, with Pharmacist IPs working in Medicine, Surgery, Heart Failure, Oncology, Community Services & OPAT to-date. We are very supportive of pharmacy professionals putting forward their own ideas for service improvements and are committed to developing a strong Quality Improvement ethos, with a formal Quality, Service Improvement and Redesign accreditation also on offer.

We aim to produce a workforce equipped with strong clinical knowledge, a positive attitude, and a great team ethic. This post is ideally suited both to pre-registration or newly qualified pharmacists, and community pharmacists interested in a sector change.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Participates in the provision of a comprehensive pharmaceutical service to Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust and to those organisations with which the Trust has a contract for supply of pharmaceutical services.
2. Undertakes clinical pharmacy duties to delegated wards, advising junior & senior medical staff and nurses on effective and safe prescribing and administration of medicines.
3. Provides training and support to the undergraduate, pre-registration pharmacists & less experienced pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and, where requested, other ward staff.
4. Undertakes risk assessments and implements risk reducing measures, where appropriate reviewing and updating safe systems of work on a regular basis.
5. Post holders will be required to undertake weekend, bank holidays and on-call work on a rota basis.

The pharmacy department has a very friendly, enthusiastic and energetic team and has established a good working relationship with our primary care commissioners. We have strong ties with a number of higher education institutes including the University of Wolverhampton. Colleagues from our department won an 'Excellence in Hospital Pharmacy Practice' award at the 2018 Clinical Pharmacy Congress. We have recently developed exciting new posts in Community Services such as Rapid Response and AKI post-discharge review. Finally, we have been recommended by colleagues as a great place to work which is supported by the Trust's values to work as part of a team, being respectful, compassionate and professional.

The post holder will provide ward-based clinical services, supporting safe prescribing and administration of medicines in the allocated wards/departments of Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, ensuring clinical practice is evidence-based, shared, and, wherever possible, patient-focused. Will also provide patient counselling and assist in the provision of Medicines Information as part of their role.

Professionally checks prescriptions in the dispensary, including those for cytotoxic drugs, clinical trials and controlled drugs, and assists in dispensing and final checking as required.

Complies with the Clinical Pharmacy Service guidelines and SOPs and is expected to meet the standards set out in the guidelines and SOPs, ensuring that the Director of Pharmacy is made aware of any circumstances that would, or may, militate against safe standards of clinical practice. Reports, and encourages others to report, all Adverse Drug reactions in-line with departmental guidelines.

Promotes awareness of and assists in the implementation of the Trust’s Medicines Management Group decisions, including the current contents of the formulary and Trust Pharmacy Policies, and assists medical and prescribing nursing staff to adjust prescribing practices in line with the evidence base and formulary requirements.

Will comply with the requirement of productivity tools and audits assigned by the pharmacy senior management team and maintain full records of clinical activity and interventions using pharmacy electronic systems.

Postholder will be required to undertake late night, weekend, bank holidays and on-call work on a rota basis.

This advert closes on Friday 13 Dec 2024.