Bank Clinical Pharmacist
- Employer
- Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Location
- Luton
- Salary
- £22.43 to £25.67 an hour p/h depends on the experience
- Closing date
- 18 Jun 2024
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- Profession
- Other Health Profession
- Grade
- Band 7
- Hours
- Part Time
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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our pharmacy team at BHFT. You will join our cohort of band 7 pharmacists who will be responsible for providing a ward pharmacy service to the following areas: Acute Admissions, Elderly Care, Surgery, Cardiology and Respiratory.
We are looking for dynamic, organised and motivated pharmacists with excellent communication skills and a commitment to patient care. Your focus will be to deliver a patient-centred ward pharmacy service and forge strong links with other healthcare professionals. This will be achieved through attending consultant led ward rounds and MDT board rounds. You will also have the opportunity to work closely with Lead Pharmacists and given small to medium term directorate projects to further assist your development.
This opportunity presents the successful candidates with an excellent chance to build on their clinical knowledge across a broad range of specialties. We are fully committed to your training and development to enable you to maximise your potential contribution to patient care and would actively support the non-medical prescribing qualification, subject to funding.
Our Pharmacy Department is a vibrant and forward thinking department, with a strong emphasis on teamwork. To see our staff opinions please follow the link in the attached brochure
Our Pharmacy Department is a vibrant and forward thinking department, with a strong emphasis on teamwork.
Main duties of the job
To undertake clinical supervision and line management of Foundation Pharmacists, medicines management pharmacy technicians and pre-registration pharmacists
To ensure the safe, clinical and cost effective use of medicines and staff resources across the Division. To be responsible for delivering the defined service Key Performance Indicators
To actively participate in Consultant and/or Registrar ward rounds, taking the lead for inpatient prescribing and real-time prescribing of discharge medicines on ePMA during the rounds.
To practice as an Independent Pharmacist Prescriber with both a specialist and generalist scope of practice (or to undertake and attain Independent Pharmacist Prescribing status within the first year of appointment)
To deliver and develop clinical services to inpatients of the Division (primarily in the speciality) through involvement in multi-disciplinary teams, development of protocols and discharge planning ensuring the patient is at the centre of your practice.
To provide a highly developed generalist pharmacy and medicines optimisation expertise to the relevant Division ensuring that medication is optimised for the individual patient and that the patient is fully aware of the indication and side effects of their medicines
About us
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A& E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics.
You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. Please ensure that you make your application as soon as possible.
All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required.
Please review all documents attached to this advert to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.
Bedfordshire Hospitals Pharmacy Department
Bedfordshire Hospitals Clinical Pharmacists
Bedfordshire Hospitals Medicine Use and Quality
Bedfordshire Hospitals Pharmacy - what our staff have to say
Bedfordshire Hospitals - I love pharmacy because...
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see full Job Description and Person Specification attached. If further information is required, please speak to our contact on the advert (see below).
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
Desirable
Experience
Essential
Desirable
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Skills
Essential
Desirable
Employer details
Employer name
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Luton and Bedford site
Lewsey Road
Luton
LU4 0DZ
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
418-DTO1971-SJ
We are looking for dynamic, organised and motivated pharmacists with excellent communication skills and a commitment to patient care. Your focus will be to deliver a patient-centred ward pharmacy service and forge strong links with other healthcare professionals. This will be achieved through attending consultant led ward rounds and MDT board rounds. You will also have the opportunity to work closely with Lead Pharmacists and given small to medium term directorate projects to further assist your development.
This opportunity presents the successful candidates with an excellent chance to build on their clinical knowledge across a broad range of specialties. We are fully committed to your training and development to enable you to maximise your potential contribution to patient care and would actively support the non-medical prescribing qualification, subject to funding.
Our Pharmacy Department is a vibrant and forward thinking department, with a strong emphasis on teamwork. To see our staff opinions please follow the link in the attached brochure
Our Pharmacy Department is a vibrant and forward thinking department, with a strong emphasis on teamwork.
Main duties of the job
To undertake clinical supervision and line management of Foundation Pharmacists, medicines management pharmacy technicians and pre-registration pharmacists
To ensure the safe, clinical and cost effective use of medicines and staff resources across the Division. To be responsible for delivering the defined service Key Performance Indicators
To actively participate in Consultant and/or Registrar ward rounds, taking the lead for inpatient prescribing and real-time prescribing of discharge medicines on ePMA during the rounds.
To practice as an Independent Pharmacist Prescriber with both a specialist and generalist scope of practice (or to undertake and attain Independent Pharmacist Prescribing status within the first year of appointment)
To deliver and develop clinical services to inpatients of the Division (primarily in the speciality) through involvement in multi-disciplinary teams, development of protocols and discharge planning ensuring the patient is at the centre of your practice.
To provide a highly developed generalist pharmacy and medicines optimisation expertise to the relevant Division ensuring that medication is optimised for the individual patient and that the patient is fully aware of the indication and side effects of their medicines
About us
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A& E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics.
You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. Please ensure that you make your application as soon as possible.
All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering their first six months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required.
Please review all documents attached to this advert to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.
Bedfordshire Hospitals Pharmacy Department
Bedfordshire Hospitals Clinical Pharmacists
Bedfordshire Hospitals Medicine Use and Quality
Bedfordshire Hospitals Pharmacy - what our staff have to say
Bedfordshire Hospitals - I love pharmacy because...
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see full Job Description and Person Specification attached. If further information is required, please speak to our contact on the advert (see below).
Person Specification
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstration of up to date clinical awareness in medicine
- Knowledge and understanding of medicines legislation
- Awareness of current developments in Pharmacy practice
- Understanding the need of confidentiality awareness at all times
Desirable
- Computer literacy
- Knowledge and awareness of implications of current developments in pharmacy practice and NHS strategies
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of audit
- Relevant CPD
- Experience of supervision
- Validated experience in delivering clinical pharmacy services to medical patients in a hospital setting
Desirable
- experience of collaborative working in multidisciplinary setting
- Risk Management
- Research/Project experience
- Experience of training staff
- Policy and service development
Qualifications
Essential
- Pharmacy degree (Masters level).
- GPhC registration
- Post graduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
- Willing to undertake Diploma if not yet completed
- Willing to undertake Independent Prescribing course
Desirable
- Post graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
- Accredited Diploma Tutor
- Train the Trainer qualification
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- RPS Faculty Member portfolio in preparation
- Independent Prescriber qualification
Skills
Essential
- Organised and able to plan and manage work programmes
- Critical review/analysis and interpretation of clinical literature and medicines legislation
- Appropriate IT skills are required to utilise clinical information systems, pharmacy computer systems, databases and other software to improve patient care.
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to influence other professionals
- Presentation skills
- Supervisory skills
- Medication counselling skills
Desirable
- Active involvement in supporting implementation of service developments
- Ability to apply logical and analytical skills to manage clinical risk during the use of medicines
- Report writing
- Negotiation skills
Employer details
Employer name
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Luton and Bedford site
Lewsey Road
Luton
LU4 0DZ
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
418-DTO1971-SJ
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