Homecare Pharmacist,

Baxter International Inc.; Stockport; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare organization where your role as a Pharmacist will directly impact patient care and safety. This position offers a unique opportunity to manage prescription therapies in a homecare setting, ensuring the highest standards of patient safety and compliance. You'll collaborate with clinical teams, mentor support staff, and engage in continuous professional development. With a commitment to work-life balance and professional growth, this role is perfect for those seeking to make a meaningful difference in healthcare while being part of an inclusive and diverse workforce. Your expertise will help shape the future of patient care at Baxter.

Benefits

Competitive total compensation package

Professional development opportunities

Work-life balance

Inclusive and diverse workforce

Qualifications

• Registered Pharmacist with experience in homecare pharmacy preferred.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills required.

Responsibilities

• Manage prescription and patient safety for homecare therapies.
• Dispense prescriptions accurately and report errors promptly.
• Mentor pharmacy support staff and provide clinical counseling.

Skills

Clinical Screening

Prescription Management

Problem Solving

Mentoring

Analytical Skills

Education

Registered Pharmacist with GPhC

Job description

This is where you save and sustain lives

At Baxter, we are deeply connected by our mission. No matter your role at Baxter, your work makes a positive impact on people around the world. You'll feel a sense of purpose throughout the organization, as we know our work improves outcomes for millions of patients.

Baxter's products and therapies are found in almost every hospital worldwide, in clinics and in the home. For over 85 years, we have pioneered significant medical innovations that transform healthcare.

Together, we create a place where we are happy, successful and inspire each other. This is where you can do your best work.

Join us at the intersection of saving and sustaining lives—where your purpose accelerates our mission.

At Baxter Healthcare Corporation, we are on a mission to make a positive impact on people's lives around the world. As a world-class manufacturer of healthcare products and therapies, our innovations have transformed the industry for over 85 years.

Join us in Cheadle, UK, as a Pharmacist and be a part of our outstanding team. A multifaceted, exciting opportunity to join the Baxter family.

Whilst maintaining patient safety, you will be responsible for the patient and prescription management for specialist homecare Pharmacy therapies.

What you'll do:

• Be the Responsible Pharmacist to deliver prescription management and dispensing across all therapies in line with operational metrics and standards, whilst maintaining patient safety.
• Process the prescription receipt and conduct clinical screening/intervention in line with the standard operating procedures.
• Accurately dispense prescriptions and ensure the timely reporting of near misses and dispensing errors.
• Place product orders and authorise prescription entries on the Patient Medication Record.
• Formulate unlicensed medicines and raise the purchase order with the manufacturing provider in line with the patient & customer requirements within the contractual timeframes.
• Communicate and collaborate with the relevant clinical teams to ensure patient adherence is being met in line with the prescription and call out where appropriate.
• Document and bring up adverse events and incidents to the relevant critical issue point (e.g. Lead and/or Principal Pharmacist, Quality, Pharmacovigilance, Superintendent Pharmacist and Safeguarding Lead).
• Provide clinical counselling and product expertise for patients, associated care teams and pharmacy support staff.
• Mentor and coach pharmacy support staff in the delivery of associated pharmacy training.

Requirements:

• Registered Pharmacist with GPhC
• Post registration experience of working in homecare pharmacy setting would be advantageous
• Successful experience of undertaking clinical investigations (e.g. near-miss investigations)
• Good mentoring and training capabilities, ability to empower and develop others
• Critical thinker with strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of GPhC and RPS Pharmacy standards as part of continuous professional development (CPD)

What are some of the benefits of working at Baxter?

• Competitive total compensation package
• Professional development opportunities
• High importance placed on work life balance
• Commitment to growing and developing an inclusive and diverse workforce