Clinical Pharmacist

Shireal R. Lewis; Bolton; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000

Job description

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

About

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated care organisation, providing care in the community at over 20 health centres and clinics as well as services such as district nursing. We also provide services at the Royal Bolton Hospital.

We have three fundamental aims:

1. Best care for better health (for our patients and our community).
2. Responsible use of resources (for the taxpayer).
3. Valued, respected and proud (by our staff, patients and public).

We aim to:

1. Meet the health needs of our population.
2. Improve the safety and quality of care.
3. Improve patient experience.
4. Make our services more efficient.

Key details

Location

Site: Royal Bolton Hospital

Address: Minerva Road

Town: Bolton

Postcode: BL4 0JR

Major / Minor Region: Lancashire

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: 12 months (Fixed term)

Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week

Salary

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Grade: (NHS AfC: Band 6)

Specialty

Main area: Clinical Pharmacist

Job overview

Clinical Pharmacist – Part time 30 hours per week, over 7 days.

12 months fixed term contract

Plus 1:6 weekends plus emergency duty payment from commencing on-call duties.

Are you an experienced or recently qualified hospital pharmacist, seeking new challenges in a clinically-orientated pharmacy service? Or are you a community pharmacist who would like to make the move into hospital pharmacy and become involved in multidisciplinary patient care? The ideal candidate will have hospital experience & candidates qualifying this summer are encouraged to apply.

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Are you looking for a wide-ranging and stimulating pharmacy experience? You will gain experience in Clinical Pharmacy, Medicines Information, Dispensary and Aseptic Services. We are looking for a pharmacist to join our expanding team providing clinical pharmacy services. Hospital experience is unnecessary as we have an excellent track record of training and developing all staff. More than half your time will be spent on ward-based patient care the remainder dealing with patients and other health professionals.

Working for our organisation

Based just off the M61, twenty minutes from the centre of Manchester and with excellent transport links to the rest of the North West, we are a forward thinking Foundation Trust. The pharmacy has recently implemented a major re-engineering of services, including automation, to further develop a highly proactive clinical service from a newly refurbished modern department.

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust provide services across the North West side of the Greater Manchester area ranging from hospital services in Bolton to community services across Bolton, Salford, Ashton, Leigh and Wigan. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. We have a CQC rating as good overall and we have some key areas of outstanding practice with an outstanding rating for being well led at every level.

Over 5,700 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they do not need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare. The Trust offer a range of flexible working patterns to enable our staff to balance their work and personal life.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Clinical Pharmacist will:

• Manage from time to time staff involved in the implementation and development of services in conjunction with Lead Clinical Pharmacists and the Pharmacy General Services Manager (Chief Technician).
• Independently, but in line with the business plans of the Pharmacy service, implement services provided by the Pharmacy Department.
• Identify, for consideration within the department’s business plans, initiatives to further the service. Where appropriate implement and monitor these developments.
• Undertake clinical audit and practice research within the Pharmacy Department and the specified clinical areas and/or services and implement any action necessary from this audit cycle.
• Provide training to staff within the practice area, and other areas according to competence, including, pre-registration pharmacists, pharmacists, student technicians and technicians.
• Comply with pharmacy practice Standard Operating Procedures within the practice area.
• Attend local meetings as the representative of the pharmacy department as required within the role and as delegated.
• Participate fully in all pharmaceutical services provided by the Pharmacy department.
• Provide professional leadership to clinical pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists, technicians and assistants working within the Pharmacy service.
• Prepare the weekly pharmacists’ rotas in line with departmental policy.
• Comply with the legal and other requirements related to the purchase, supply, use, safe custody and destruction of drugs within pharmacy and in all other areas of the hospital.
• Be responsible for ensuring all activities associated with the receipt and supply of medicines are recorded personally on the Pharmacy computer systems according to procedure.
• Assist in the distribution of medicines to patients, wards and departments and to assist in maintaining systems for the control of drugs in accordance with current legislation.
• Handle cash in respect of prescription charges or sales of medicines.

The vision of this Trust is to be recognised by the people of Bolton and beyond as an excellent provider of health and care services and a great place to work. We are striving to attract, recruit and retain high calibre skilled staff which reflect our communities. We are an inclusive employer who trains and develops our staff in a positive learning environment.

We thrive on cultivating cultural architecture, if you have the right skills, attitudes and behaviours, in line with our Trust values, we welcome and appreciate the diversity you bring to our organisation.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits please click on the link below to see what current benefits we have.

Staff benefits - Bolton NHS FT (boltonft.nhs.uk)

From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Vocational Masters Degree in Pharmacy
• One year pre-registration training and experience
• Membership of The General Pharmaceutical Council.

Desirable criteria

• Working towards/enrolled in further study eg Diploma in clinical pharmacy, or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria

• Pre-registration training experience in hospital or community pharmacy
• Ability to cope with occasional distressing circumstances eg when dealing with seriously ill patients
• Able to think clearly in stressful situations
• Good all round clinical knowledge and practical clinical skills.

Desirable criteria

• Good all round community pharmacy experience relevant to hospital practice
• Previous clinical experience
• Evidence of further education/training in clinical pharmacy practice
• Teaching/training experience

Documents

• Job Description - Clinical Pharmacist Band 6
• Person specification
• Trust Profile
• What Makes Bolton Brilliant
• Applicants with a Disability
• Open letter

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Angela Myers

Job title: Pharmacy General Services Manager

Email address: [email protected]

Telephone number: 01204 390555

Additional information:

Clinical Lead - Jennifer Dillon: [email protected]

Clinical Lead - Suzanne Blenkinship: [email protected]

Chief Pharmacist Ana Freitas: [email protected]

Or Tel: [phone]