Job Description

Job summary

Why might this job interest you?

Are you a skilled and compassionate Pharmacist ready to play a crucial role in patient care? Join our team at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust and help us make a difference!

Main duties of the job

To carry out general dispensing, compounding and associated clinical and pharmaceutical duties and to assist with the provision of the pharmaceutical service to the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.

To receive training and gain experience in all aspects of pharmacy practice by participating in a structured programme incorporating the following rotations plus study for the General Practice Diploma.

• Dispensary
• Clinical Services (includes rotations in General Surgery, Trauma &Orthopaedics, Frailty, Stroke, Maternity, Haematology/Oncology, with exposure to Renal, Respiratory, Cardiology and Paediatrics)
• Medicines Information
• Pharmacy Manufacturing Unit (includes Oncology and Aseptic services)
• Medicines Management

About us

Here at NHS Professionals, we run England's largest NHS staff bank and are experts at putting people in places to care. Every year we help thousands of dedicated and highly skilled NHS workers enjoy better career opportunities, more flexible shifts, and a healthier work-life balance across our partnered Trusts.

Career Progression access to Learning & Development opportunities, so that you can take on new roles and challenges

Work-life Balance flexible shifts, committed shifts, wellbeing resources and build paid annual leave

Opportunity & Access over 50 partner NHS Trusts to give you the flexibility of choice to work how and where you want

Job description and responsibilities

• Practice as a clinical pharmacist within local and national policies and standards to deliver medicines optimisation to individual patients, incorporating all aspects of the patient journey from admission to discharge.
• To work with the Medicines Management Pharmacy technician (where available) to ensure that an accurate medicines reconciliation is carried out and documented for all newly admitted patients and that any discrepancies or problems are resolved and any relevant information communicated to the patients GP and Community Pharmacy (via DMS).
• To carry out and participate in clinical audits and research as required.
• To allocate, supervise and check the work of pharmacy technicians, pharmacy support workers and other staff, as required.
• To give professional advice on pharmaceutical matters to medical, nursing and other professional staff.
• To assist in education the training of other grades of pharmacy staff and other health care professionals when required.
• To participate in the departmental, Saturday, Sunday, Bank holiday and Emergency Duty service rota.
• To sort returned drugs/waste, separating items to be credited and those to be discarded, according to procedure; to put back returns on the computer as per procedure; to be actively involved in sorting returns on the wards.
• To undertake other reasonable duties, within the framework of the post, as directed by the Chief/Principal Pharmacist.

Person Specification & Qualifications

• Masters Degree MPharm (or equivalent).
• Competency assessed and examined professional registration with the GPhC.
• Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice.
• Able to undertake Diploma in Pharmacy Practice.
• Recent Hospital experience or Hospital Foundation Trainee or UK pharmacy experience.

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 (opens in a new window).

Employer details

NHS Professionals Limited

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB