Rotational Pharmacist With Band 7 Development Pathway

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals Nhs Trust; Worcester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is seeking a Band 6 Pharmacist to join a development pathway from Band 6 to 7, delivering clinical pharmacy services across wards and the dispensary. You will participate in medicines optimisation, information provision, and ward-based discharge support.

Role includes supervision of trainees, teaching, and contributing to medicines information, audits, and guideline development within a Trust-wide framework.

Qualifications

• Professional knowledge through a vocational degree in pharmacy.
• Registered with GPhC and committed to CPD.
• Experience delivering NHS pharmacy services is essential.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical pharmacy services on rotation to acute medical, surgical, emergency and critical care units.
• Support medicines information and discharge planning, including discharge medicines service.
• Supervise pre-registration pharmacists and trainees; provide teaching to staff.

Skills

Communication

Time management

Teamwork

Initiative

Education

Vocational degree in pharmacy

GPhC Registration

GPhC CPD standards

Job description

Job summary

Due to internal recruitment, we are seeking enthusiastic and clinically committed pharmacists to join our team providing clinical pharmacist services to ward, dispensary and cancer services teams. Through our structured Band 6-7 development programme, you will gain the skills and experience needed to progress into a Band 7 Specialist Rotational Pharmacist role via completion of our band 6-7 development pathway.

You will:

• Gain experience across a range of specialist services through 4-month rotations.
• Work as the medicines expert within multidisciplinary teams.
• Support safe and timely patient discharge, including the Discharge Medicines Service.
• Develop clinical decision-making skills through medicines optimisation, medicines information and on-call services.

Support and Development

We are committed to helping you achieve your career goals through:

• A structured Band 6-7 development pathway with gateway assessments.
• Tailored rotational training and personalised learning objectives.
• Dedicated clinical supervision, coaching and mentoring.
• Regular development reviews.
• Opportunities to lead audits, contribute to guideline development and support incident reviews.
• Monthly education sessions and peer learning forums.
• Access to postgraduate qualifications, leadership programmes, independent prescribing and clinical diploma opportunities.
• Study leave and protected time for professional development.

Main duties of the job

Key Duties

• Provide Medication History Taking, Medicines Reconciliation, provision of Patient Information and Counselling and ward-based discharge to an allocated clinical ward or area according to the rotation utilising the trusts electronic prescribing and notes system
• Deliver pharmaceutical care to patients; recommend, substantiate and communicate best therapeutic options for patients and implement changes in prescribing practice to ensure evidence-based medicine is followed as appropriate.
• Undertake clinical audit of medicine use and pharmacy services within WAHT
• Provide the clinical professional check on prescriptions dispensed within the dispensary, ensuring that the Trust high cost drug procedure and Trust Formulary is adhered to.
• Provide day to day clinical supervision for pre-registration pharmacy graduates, technical pharmacy staff and students as assigned.
• Provide clinical pharmacy teaching to pharmacy, medical and nursing staff
• Provide weekend pharmacy services including on call on rotation.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

• Being open and honest
• Ensuring people feel cared for
• Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

Any applicants who are offered posts requiring a DBS check as part of their employment check will have the cost of this check (at the current rate) deducted from their salary. Please see link in Supporting Information section for more details on DBS checks and costs.

Job responsibilities

This is a development role and requires completion of activities and gateway assessment activities alongside the general duties to progress from a band 6 position to a band 7 position.

• Provide clinical pharmacy services on rotation to the acute medical, surgical, emergency, and critical care units WRH, under the clinical supervision of Lead Specialist Pharmacists.
• Provide specialised pharmaceutical advice concerning the care of patients and undertake pharmaceutical risk management for the Units where duties are being carried out.
• Ensure compliance with medicines legislation, the Trust Medicines Policy, and medicines related national and local guidelines within the Units where duties are being carried out.
• Be accountable for his or her own professional actions guided by appropriate technical and professional SOPs and associated policies, national directives, standards, guidelines, senior pharmacist colleagues, and the post-holders own specialised knowledge.
• Plan his or her duties and prioritise workload where duties are being carried out according to the needs of patients, medical and nursing staff in order to complete the following within the time available: Analysing patients individual pharmaceutical care needs; Identifying and correcting prescribing errors/unclear prescriptions with medical staff; Advising prescribers on doses, side effects, alternative treatments
• Communicate complex pharmaceutical recommendations and advice concerning patients treatment effectively to medical and nursing staff and other health care professionals.
• Interview newly admitted patients to construct an accurate medication history, assess compliance/concordance issues, and: Review information against the admission details and prescription chart; Identify to medical staff any potential or actual medicines-related hospital admissions or associated issues and outline any required action to resolve identified discrepancies.
• Construct pharmaceutical care plans for patients, assess and monitor clinical progress and outcome with regard to their medication and actively intervene to ensure that patients receive optimal care with minimal side effects.
• Monitor TPN on a daily basis against individual patients need and clinical condition.
• Assess patients discharge information requirements as early as possible in the admission stay to be able to prepare information on medicines for them based on individual need.
• Assist with the therapeutic blood monitoring of identified drugs within the post-holders clinical area including: Initial patient assessment and initiation of appropriate loading or starting doses; Completion of digital request cards for level assaying; Interpretation of blood level results and subsequent adjustment of the patients dose of medicine and amendment of the patients prescription in order to optimise the beneficial results of therapy whilst minimising any potential toxicity.
• Use MS Word, Excel and Powerpoint to produce patient information, information for medical and nursing staff, audits and project reports.
• Provision of Information and Counselling: Advise medical, nursing and technical pharmacy staff on the safe and appropriate management of medicines together with the safe handling and disposal of medicines including those which are noxious or harmful; Advise all health care professionals on storage, stability, compatibility and expiry issues regarding medicines; On rotation, assist the Specialist Pharmacist for Medicines Information by providing information to consultants, General Practitioners, medical, nursing and pharmacy staff on all aspects of medicines and therapy with medicines for individual patients and patient groups; Counsel and provide information about their medicines to patients with complex needs such as a physical disability which may affect information requirements or language difficulties.
• Provision of Professional Dispensary Services: Providing on a rotational basis the clinical pharmacist check on all prescriptions dispensed by the Dispensary, scrutinising prescriptions for accuracy, appropriateness, legality and cost-effectiveness; Questioning and challenging the prescriptions of prescribers whenever the post holder perceives it to be professionally appropriate and in the best interests of the patient; Ensuring the accurate dispensing and documentation of clinical trial material as requested; Use the Pharmacy Computer System to query the availability, location and cost of medicines, and to dispense and supply medicines; Use the Electronic Discharge System for processing discharge prescriptions.
• Provision of cancer services: Provide on a rotational basis the professional checking of chemotherapy prescriptions for patients, scrutinising prescriptions from oncologists and haematologists; Questioning and challenging prescriptions whenever professionally appropriate; Pre-check and release chemotherapy in the aseptic units of the trust ensuring compliance with GMP; Use the Electronic prescribing system as required to facilitate management of chemotherapy patients.
• Managerial responsibilities: Provide day to day clinical supervision for pre-registration pharmacy graduates, pharmacy technicians, assistant pharmacy technicians, and students within the WRH dispensary and other pharmacy services.
• Financial Responsibilities: Help to maintain the security of medicines and supplies within the Pharmacy Departments; Undertake regular statutory checks of Controlled Drugs on hospital wards; Provide advice and support to their allocated wards in relation to the Safe and Secure Handling of medicines.
• Provision of Education, Training and CPD: Participating in the Trust personal development review, agreeing service and personal objectives with the Clinical Pharmacy Team Leader and being responsible for self audit; Identify personal training and development required to ensure the quality of the service; Agreeing and completing a yearly training plan in line with PDR objectives.
• Other Operational Responsibilities: Assist in the delivery of the pharmacy departments dispensing and other operational, and clinical, services as required; Accurately dispense and prepare medicines ensuring doses are correct; Enter patient details on the Pharmacy Computer System and produce medicine labels; Check medicines that other pharmacy staff have dispensed and prepared; Participate in the Weekend service and Bank Holiday rota; Undertake emergency duties of a pharmaceutical nature on a rota with other pharmacists at WRH.

Person Specification

Qualifications (Essential)

• Professional knowledge acquired through a vocational degree in pharmacy
• Currently Registered as member of the GPhC
• Currently meeting the GPhC standard for continuing professional development.

Experience (Essential)

• Current experience of successfully delivering NHS pharmacy services in a secondary care environment to a range of general and specialist areas.

Personal Qualities (Essential)

• Can demonstrate commitment to delivering the best possible services to patients and the trust.
• Able to meet deadlines and manage time effectively
• Able to work well on own initiative and effectively within a team to deliver best possible care
• Able to communicate information about medicines when there are barriers to understanding

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details

Employer name: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Address: Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, Worcestershire, WR5 1DD, United Kingdom

Employer's website: Apply through our website

Contact: Principal Pharmacist Lindsay Stewart, [e-mail], 01905760612

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number: C9365-26-0598

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and the DBS disclosure process described above.