Rotational Senior Clinical Pharmacist

NHS; Epsom, Carshalton; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in South West London is seeking a Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist to join its supportive team. This full-time role involves working across various specialities, ensuring optimal medication regimens, and contributing to quality improvement efforts. Candidates should have significant post-registration experience and advanced clinical qualifications. The position offers competitive compensation and a flexible work schedule.

Qualifications

• Minimum 18 months post registration UK hospital experience.
• Demonstrate good clinical knowledge and skills.
• Experience managing staff and conducting appraisals.

Responsibilities

• Work across rotations including critical care and pediatrics.
• Conduct audits and lead quality improvement initiatives.
• Provide support and education to junior pharmacists.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Good organisational skills

Ability to motivate self and others

Clinical governance and risk management

Education

MSc in Clinical Pharmacy Practice or equivalent

Certificate in clinical pharmacy (working towards 18 months)

Full Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent

Job description

Overview

Mynd nôl Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Rotational Senior Clinical Pharmacist

The closing date is 12 Hydref 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for motivated individuals to join our team as a Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist. If you're an ambitious and forward-thinking individual seeking to enhance your clinical expertise while honing your management skills, then this position is tailor-made for you.

When you join ESTH you\'ll be welcomed by our friendly and supportive team who will help you throughout your career.

If career progression is high on your priority list, we offer numerous specialised roles in our department at 8A and above, including paediatrics, antimicrobials, education and training, critical care, renal medicine, and biologics and homecare. We also offer support to colleagues interested in completing the Independent Prescribing qualification.

As one of South West London\'s largest teaching hospitals, we offer a unique opportunity to expand your clinical knowledge. Our status as an Acute Trust ensures you\'ll be exposed to a diverse range of medical conditions, allowing our pharmacists to develop a breadth of clinical expertise. We are also home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre, and our dedicated paediatric hospital at St Helier provides a valuable opportunity to work with a diverse patient population and encounter an extensive array of medical conditions.

Main duties of the job

As a Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist, you\'ll work across a number of different rotations, including critical care, paediatrics, surgery, and a variety of medical specialties. Your daily responsibilities will encompass ward-based tasks, chart reviews, clinical interventions, working closely with the medical team to optimise medication regimens, patient education on medications, screening discharge prescriptions, and supporting junior or trainee pharmacists. You\'ll take the lead in conducting audits and driving quality improvement initiatives.

During 6-monthly rotations you will provide a comprehensive pharmaceutical service, working towards expert level knowledge during 6-monthly rotations. You will also be supported to develop managerial skills and expertise by working towards agreed objectives.

This position is full-time with a requirement for 37.5 hours of work per week, including participation in seven-day working and on-call rotas. However, we are open to applications from individuals seeking part-time, job-share, or flexible working arrangements.

If you\'d like to be a part of a team that offers a supportive and collaborative environment fostering growth and development, where your contributions are valued and recognised, we invite you to apply

About us

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust provides a range of medical services to approximately 490,000 people living across southwest London and northeast Surrey. In addition, we provide more specialist services, in particular renal and neonatal intensive care, to a wider area, covering parts of Sussex and Hampshire.

We serve an area that is rich in diversity, with a mix of urban and rural areas, and differing levels of quality of life. We cover some of the most prosperous postcodes in the country, as well as some poorer areas. Together with our colleagues at NHS Surrey and NHS Sutton and Merton, we work to make sure that we deliver the best possible care to the communities we serve.

The Trust employs approximately 5,000 staff across its hospitals and is supported by over 500 volunteers.

Job responsibilities

In the full job description, you will see clearly the full range of duties within these roles that will enable you to work as part of the pharmacy team and with the clinicians and ward based teams to provide patient focused, individual care for our patients. Tell us in your application how you meet the criteria in the attached person specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Certificate in clinical pharmacy (at least 12 months complete and working towards 18 months)
• MSc in Clinical Pharmacy Practice or equivalent. Management training
• Full Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
• Management training

Experience

• Post registration UK hospital experience (min 18 months)
• Experience of providing services to a broad variety of patients
• Demonstrate evidence of good clinical knowledge and skills.
• Management of staff/ Staff appraisal

Skills

• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
• Good organisational skills, self and others.
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Clinical governance and risk management
• Experience of contributing to or leading on the writing of trust guidelines, policies and procedures

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.

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

£53,751 to £60,651 a year pro-rata pa inc Outer (HCAS)