Clinical Rotational Pharmacist

NHS; Kingston upon Hull; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000

Job description

The post holder will be a pharmacist, who acts within their professional boundaries, supporting and working alongside a team of pharmacists in general practice. In this role they will be supported by a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist who will develop, manage, and mentor them.

The post holder will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team in a patient-facing role across the trust.

The post holder will provide primary support to other health care professionals with regards to prescription and medication queries.

They will help support the repeat prescription system, deal with acute prescription requests, and medicines reconciliation on transfer of care for safer prescribing, providing expertise in clinical medicines advice while addressing both public and social care needs of patients in the different sectors of the trust.

The post holder will provide clinical leadership on medicines optimisation and quality improvement.

The role is pivotal to improving the quality of care and operational efficiencies so requires motivation and passion to deliver excellent service within the trust.

This will be a rotational post, primarily of a training and development nature. Levels of responsibility will increase as experience and competence increases.

The post holder may be offered the option of undertaking a Clinical Pharmacy Diploma, or an alternative but broadly equivalent post-registration training programme in accordance with NHS England training recommendations for pharmacists.

The post holder will progress to a band 7 post on completion of appropriate training requirements.

Any alternative training requirement would be specified and agreed by applicants prior to them accepting the post.

This is a Band 6-7 transitional role and progression to band 7 is dependent on the successful completion of a portfolio of evidence aligned to the foundation level framework published by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS).

You will be expected to act in accordance with the General Pharmaceutical Council's GPhC standards for pharmacy professionals.

Job responsibilities

See attached person specification and job description in the document section. For further information, please contact the details below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• GPhC registered
• Membership of RPS or PCPA

Knowledge and experience

• Relevant pharmacy experience as a trainee pharmacist or registered pharmacist
• Evidence of ongoing personal CPD
• Evidence of compliance with procedures and protocols
• Hospital and/or GP pharmacy experience

Skills, competencies and personal qualities

• Good verbal and written communicator
• Works well as a team member as well as alone
• Professional attitude
• Ability to work under pressure
• Self-motivated
• Diplomatic

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.