Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

Transformationunitgm; Southend-on-Sea; On-site; GBP 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider seeks a highly motivated Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist to join their dynamic team at Southend Hospital. This role involves delivering clinical pharmacy services across various specialities, ensuring medication safety, and supervising junior staff. The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills and the ability to work effectively within a multidisciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
• Post-graduate qualifications in Clinical/General Pharmacy.
• Hospital-based clinical training experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical services to wards and outpatients.
• Counsel and advise patients on medication use.
• Take part in emergency On-call Pharmacist rota.

Skills

Communication

Interpersonal skills

Clinical judgement

Education

Registration as Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Diploma in Clinical/General Pharmacy Practice

Evidence of Hospital-based clinical education/training

Job description

Main area Pharmacy Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent: will include on-call duty Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (5 shifts per week including 1 weekend shift every 4 weeks. 1 late shift per week) Job ref 390-CSS-SO-9630

Employer Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Southend Town Westcliff-on-Sea Salary £47,810 Per Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time) Salary period Yearly Closing 19/06/2025 23:59

Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

Band 7

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the onlyacute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.

Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.

We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities.

Job overview

A position has become available within the Clinical Pharmacist team at the Southend Hospital site.

This is a great opportunity for a highly motivated, open minded and dynamic pharmacist to support the delivery of our clinical pharmacy service.

The current clinical pharmacists team currently comprises a welcoming, forward-thinking and vibrant group of individuals, always seeking to improve current ways of working to benefit the patients we serve and promote a harmonious working environment.

You will need to be an excellent communicator with strong interpersonal/ relationship building skills. In return, we will offer you a range of career development opportunities, both on the Southend Hospital Site and the wider Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust.

This role will involve rotations within varied specialist clinical areas including general medicine, surgery, orthopaedics, department of medicine for the elderly and technical services, as well as contributing to the provision of the 'on-call' service.

Main duties of the job

• Providing a clinical service to the wards, discharge service, outpatients, technical services unit and other service users.
  Attend clinical ward rounds, clinical and multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate.
• Regularly recording clinical interventions and activities.
  Provide specialist pharmaceutical information to medical, nursing and other staff within the Trust where appropriate.
• Promote the safe, appropriate and economic use of drugs.
  Counsel and advise patients on use of medicines.
• Take part in the emergency On-call Pharmacist rota working alone as the On call Pharmacist providing medicines information, advice and supply out of hours and sourcing of urgently required drugs from external suppliers.
• To support the Trust Medication Safety Officer and Pharmacy Risk
• Governance Pharmacist with the medicine's optimisation and governance agenda.
• Ensure clinical incidents e.g. dispensing or administration errors are reported promptly according to current risk management procedures.
• Monitor the safe and secure storage of medication both within the pharmacy department and on the wards.
• Facilitate implementation of local and national guidelines where appropriate e.g. NICE.
• Keep accurate patient medication and drug issue records using the Pharmacy Wellsky computer system.
• Supervise trainee pharmacists, undergraduate students and ward-based technicians.

Working for our organisation

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Are you looking for an exciting Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you!

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application!

Person specification

Qualification

• Registration as Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Diploma in Clinical/General Pharmacy Practice or equivalent post-graduate qualification commenced
• Evidence of Hospital-based clinical education/training

Experience

• Demonstrable recent Pharmacy experience (can include pre registration year)
• NHS Hospital Pharmacy experience
• Dispensary final checking experience as a Pharmacist

Please be aware as per the new Immigration guidelines we cannot sponsor candidates with a salary (full time or pro Rata) under the current minimum threshold.

Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Caroline Giggins Job title Principle Pharmacist - Womens and Childrens Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01702385737