Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.9/5 and nearly 1000 reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Rotational Clinical Pharmacist to work in Lincoln on a full-time basis.
The salary for this permanent Rotational Clinical Pharmacist job is £43,742 - £50,056 per annum.
Main Duties:
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Provide Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Services to a Specialty
(Rotating to a different specialty every 6-12 months) in alignment with Pharmacy, Directorate, and Trust objectives:- Adhere to statutory requirements, the Controls Assurance framework, Department of Health guidance, GPhC Code of Ethics, Trust policies, and objectives.
- Establish, maintain, and strengthen effective working relationships with Trust managers, professionals, departments, service users, and external organisations.
- Supervise pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists, and technicians working within the specialty, ensuring they meet competency standards.
- Collaborate with your line manager to identify opportunities and risks, and to develop and enhance the quality of service within the specialty.
- Keep your line manager informed about service issues, staffing, and other resource needs for delivering pharmaceutical care to patients.
- Contribute to the Trust Pharmacy Service Strategy in consultation with the Senior Pharmacy Management Team.
2. Provide Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Services to Designated Wards
- Ensure a high standard of patient-focused care in accordance with the principles of Clinical Governance.
- Ensure compliance with Medicines Management, Controls Assurance Policies, and Treatment Protocols.
- Investigate patients’ drug histories, where appropriate.
- Apply clinical pharmacy expertise to improve patient outcomes through the clinical validation of prescriptions (including discharge letters (eDD)) for legality, clarity, clinical accuracy, and suitability of medication for the patient (including assessing and utilising patients’ own drugs (POD)).
- Monitor the clinical use of drugs in patients, including reporting near misses in prescribing and administration, as well as addressing risk management issues.
- Coordinate the timely supply of medication to patients, in collaboration with nurses, medical staff, the ward Pharmacy Technician, or Dispensary staff.
3. Additional Duties
- Provide medicines information and advice to prescribers, nurses, midwives, and other healthcare professionals to optimise drug therapy.
- Devise and monitor the storage of medicines on the wards to ensure potency, security, and quality are maintained.
- Work closely with the nursing and medical teams to develop and enhance services within the specialty, supporting change management initiatives.
- Offer advice to patients and carers to improve adherence to medication regimens and assess the need for compliance aids.
- Prioritise your own workload and, if necessary, that of other Pharmacy staff to ensure patient and service needs are met.
- Participate in a rotational training programme designed to provide specialist experience in Clinical Pharmacy and managerial duties.
- Provide cover for other ward pharmacists as needed.
Requirements of the Rotational Clinical Pharmacist:
- Pharmacy degree
- Completion of 1-year pre-registration training
- Registered member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
- Dispensing and checking skills
- Clinical pharmacy experience within a hospital setting
- Experience in providing medicines information
- Ability to travel between sites and for On-call duties
Contact:
This Rotational Clinical Pharmacist job is advertised by Ryan Mann; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients' requirements.
As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Sanctuary Personnel is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Sanctuary takes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Sanctuary is best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
