Registered Pharmacist

Job Title and Grade: Band 8a Pharmacist Specialist

Location/Trust: Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

Pay Rates: Days: £26.06

The Role:

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust provides hospital-based services from three main sites - the Alexandra Hospitalin Redditch, Kidderminster Hospital and Treatment Centre, and Worcestershire Royal Hospitalin Worcester - as well as some community-based services.

The pharmacy department is based across two sites (Alexandra Hospital and Worcestershire Royal Hospital) and provides services to all hospitals within the Worcestershire County area, including community hospitals.

The pharmacy team has around 160 staff all working together to provide a pharmaceutical service within the acute trust.

We have long term placement opportunities available for Pharmacist Specialists at Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Are you passionate and experienced in providing a quality service to patients and colleagues? Would you like to be part of a highly qualified team providing support for patients, working in an integrated hospital and community service? If so, we would like to hear from you today!

The post holder:

· Will be responsible for delivering the highly specialist clinical pharmacy service to General Surgery

· Will deliver specialised knowledge of medicines and nutrition support to provide advice to consultants, medical, nursing and pharmacy staff on all pharmaceutical aspects of medicines for patients.

· Will deliver pharmaceutical care to surgical 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.

· Will identify medicine-related causes for admission and develop treatment plans to optimise care, deprescribing where appropriate.

· Will undertake risk management for the pharmacy service to allocated wards and ensure compliance with medicines legislation, the Trust Medicines Policy, and medicines related national and local guidelines.

· Will undertake clinical audit of medicine use and pharmacy services within the surgical areas.

· Will facilitate the ward-based medicines management pharmacy service to achieve Trust and departmental medicines management.

Skills/Responsibilities:

To apply for this post, you will:

· Registered Pharmacist (GPhC) with secondary care experience i.e., ward clinical pharmacy experience.

· First degree in Pharmacy or equivalent

· Desirable to hold a clinical pharmacy diploma.

· Experience within NHS pharmacy practice

· Evidence of commitment to CPD as a minimum to meet mandatory requirements of the General Pharmaceutical Council

· Effective communication and telephone skills

· Methodical accurate working

· Good time management

In addition to experience, all Qualified roles will be required to provide evidence of

• Relevant Qualifications
• Registration with the relevant Registration Body if applicable

In return for your hard work commitment NHS Professionals (NHSP) can offer you some fantastic benefits: –

· Competitive Pay Rates - work this week, get paid next week!

· First choice of placements at over 50 NHS Trusts in England

· Dedicated consultants

· Flexible working options

· Free DBS and free training

· Build holiday allowance

· Support when you need it – 24/7 365 days – Call us anytime on 03330 144 370

· Stakeholder pension scheme

Who are NHS Professionals?

NHS Professionals (NHSP), owned by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), works in partnership with hospital trusts to provide a bank of highly skilled temporary workers who want to work flexibly within the NHS.

Working through the NHSP bank means Trusts don’t have to rely on expensive agencies. Right now, we have over 130,000 members registered on our bank from various roles, grades, and specialities, saving the NHS over £70 million each year. This money is then reinvested back into the NHS.

Register today for various flexible working options and long-term placement opportunities.

For more information on the roles or details on how to join NHS Professionals, simply get in touch with Ben Dowling, Recruitment and Placement Consultant on 03330144370 or ben.dowling@NHSProfessionals.nhs.uk

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Disclaimer

Please note, you will be contacted by email throughout the recruitment process, so please check your emails, including your junk/spam regularly. We regret we cannot contact everyone who is not selected for an interview, therefore if you do not hear from us within 21 days after submitting your application, please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: From £26.06 per hour

Schedule:

• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person

Reference ID: 67479