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 £35,392 - £42,618 per annum.
Main Duties:
- Deliver high-quality patient-centred care in line with Clinical Governance principles.
- Ensure compliance with Medicines Management, Controls Assurance Policies, and Treatment Protocols.
- Investigate patients' drug histories when necessary, including assessing patients' own medications (POD) for potential reuse.
- Review prescriptions for legality, clarity, clinical accuracy, and suitability for the patient.
- Monitor drug usage in patients, reporting near misses in prescribing and administration, as well as addressing risk management issues.
- Coordinate the timely supply of medications to patients in collaboration with nurses, medical staff, ward Pharmacy Technicians, and Dispensary staff.
- Foster strong working relationships with service users.
- Devise and monitor medication storage on wards to ensure the maintenance of potency, security, and quality.
- Provide medicines information to prescribers, nurses, midwives, healthcare professionals, patients, and carers.
- Offer advice to patients and carers to enhance adherence to medication regimens and assess the need for compliance aids.
- Manage and prioritise workloads, including those of other Pharmacy staff, to meet patient and service requirements.
- Participate in rotational training programmes to gain broad experience in Clinical Pharmacy.
- Provide coverage for other ward pharmacists as needed.
- Act as the supervising pharmacist on rotation in the dispensary, conducting clinical checks of prescriptions to ensure legality, accuracy, appropriateness, and policy compliance.
- Prioritise and clinically check prescriptions in the appropriate order.
- Perform final checks on dispensed medicines as required.
- Provide advice to patients and carers to improve medication adherence.
- Conduct checks on formulae and worksheets for extemporaneous aseptic preparations, such as cytotoxics, parenteral nutrition, and non-aseptic preparations.
- Carry out final checks on ingredients, batch numbers, and expiry dates for extemporaneous dispensing when needed.
- Respond to medicine information queries as appropriate.
- Dispense prescriptions and manage the supply of stock medicines and Controlled Drugs as required.
- Handle prescription payments efficiently.
- Ensure compliance with health and safety regulations and other relevant legislation governing the safe and secure handling of medicines.
- Provide coverage for pharmacists at other sites when necessary.
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.
