Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust; Wakefield; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust in Wakefield is recruiting a pharmacist with experience in a clinical setting to support the implementation of a new EPMA system. You will provide medicines reconciliation on admission, review and optimise prescriptions, and plan discharge prescriptions as part of the pharmacy team.

You will contribute to on-call, late night and weekend rotas and have opportunities to develop leadership by supporting foundation level and trainee pharmacists, and collaborating

Qualifications

• Pharmacist with experience in a clinical setting.
• Enthusiastic about best patient care.
• Willing to support foundation level and trainee pharmacists.

Responsibilities

• Medicines reconciliation on admission, prescription review and optimisation.
• Plan and process prescriptions for discharge.
• Contribute to on-call, late night and weekend rotas.
• Support service development with Advanced Clinical Pharmacists and the Digital Medicine team.

Skills

Clinical pharmacy experience

Leadership skills

Training/mentoring

Tools

EPMA system

Job description

We have an opportunity for a pharmacist with experience of working in a clinical setting to join our team of pharmacists. The successful candidate will be enthusiastic about providing best patient care and will provide clinical support to a range of specialist areas for a fixed period to support implementation of a new EPMA system., Working as a part of the pharmacy team, you will provide a clinical service in the relevant area. This will include Medicines Reconciliation on admission, prescription review and optimisation, planning and processing prescriptions for discharge.

You will contribute to the pharmacy on-call, late night and weekend rotas.

You will be able to further develop your leadership skills in supporting foundation level and trainee pharmacists in their training. You will also have opportunity to work with Advanced Clinical Pharmacists in service development and review. There may also be opportunities to work alongside the Digital Medicine team during development of the new EPMA system.

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust. As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.