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Specialist Clinical Pharmacist, Rotational Medicine
MAX FORTUNE, INC.
Northampton
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GBP 46,000 - 53,000
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Job summary
An established industry player is seeking a dedicated pharmacist to join their innovative team at a leading hospital in Northampton. This exciting role offers the opportunity to work within various medical specialties, including cardiology and respiratory, while enhancing your skills in a supportive environment. You will play a vital role in ensuring safe and effective medicines management for patients, collaborating with a multidisciplinary team, and contributing to quality improvement projects. If you are passionate about advancing your career in clinical pharmacy and making a difference in patient care, this is the perfect opportunity for you.
Qualifications
- Post-registration clinical pharmacy experience in hospital or community settings.
- Good clinical knowledge and experience in multidisciplinary teams.
Responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive Pharmacy Service within designated clinical areas.
- Manage and train pharmacy staff, ensuring safe medicines optimisation.
Skills
Ability to prioritise
Ability to delegate
Ability to work under pressure
Computer skills
Presentation skills
Ability to work alone and as a team member
Time management
Education
BPharm or MPharm degree
Member of General Pharmaceutical Council
Postgraduate clinical qualification
Job description
We provide a full range of acute clinical services from Northampton General Hospital and Danetre Hospital in Daventry. We are a designated cancer centre and have recently invested in a number of additional specialist services, including in-patient renal services and interventional cardiology. Our whole focus is on improving the quality of care given to our patients. We see quality as encompassing the following elements: Clinically effective services, Safe services, and The best possible experience for patients.
Site: Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
Address: Billing Road, Northampton, NN1 5BD
Major / Minor Region: Northamptonshire
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (to include 7 day working and on call duty)
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: Band 7
Main area: Pharmacist
Interview date: 13/02/2025
We are excited to offer a new rotational programme at a more senior level for our pharmacists at NGH in medicine through cardiology, respiratory, stroke, gastroenterology, and admissions. This will enable you to continue your development and increase your skills and knowledge across a wider portfolio with the opportunity to specialise.
To work within a clinical medical specialty for 6 months at a time, building relations with other staff to ensure safe and effective medicines optimisation for patients.
Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better and more efficiently as we update, modernise, and advance. We value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.
To work with the Pharmacy Clinical Team to provide a comprehensive Pharmacy Service within a designated clinical area, specialities including:
Medicine – Admissions, ED, Renal, Cardiology, Respiratory, Gastroenterology, amongst others
- Providing a Clinical and Specialist Pharmacist role
- Managing (planning, organising, monitoring, controlling, developing staff etc)
- Training of pharmacy staff and the wider multidisciplinary team
- Service development including Quality Improvement projects, preparation of guidelines
To provide information, advice and guidance on the safe, effective and economical use of medicines and to challenge poor practice. To optimise medicines management by reconciling drug histories and performing structured medication reviews.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration. The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020.
- Ability to prioritise
- Ability to delegate
- Ability to work under pressure
- Computer skills, eg databases
- Presentation skills
- Ability to work alone and as a team member
- Time management
- Post-registration clinical pharmacy experience within hospital, PCN, community including at least four of the following specialties: Medicine, Care of the Older Person, Surgery, Paediatrics, Medicines Information, Oncology/Haematology, Aseptics.
- Good clinical knowledge
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- BPharm or MPharm degree
- Member of General Pharmaceutical Council
- Achieved (or working towards) postgraduate clinical qualification
Name: Gill Williams
Job title: Principal Pharmacist, Medicine and Urgent Care
Email: [email protected]
Telephone: 01604 545743
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