Rotational Pharmacist

To provide a proactive clinically orientated pharmacy service, in accordance with professional, departmental, and Trust policies. Responsible for the provision of a clinical pharmacy service to a clinical specialty or patient group as agreed. Duties will include:

1. Taking medication histories from patients on admission
2. Reviewing patients' medication to ensure safe and effective use
3. Formulating individual patient pharmaceutical care plans
4. Therapeutic level monitoring for specific medicines
5. Education of patients about their medicinal therapy
6. Participation in consultant ward rounds
7. Facilitating implementation of local and national guidelines where appropriate
8. Challenging inappropriate prescribing
9. Delivering clinical and, where appropriate, final dispensing checks within the systems for dispensing and issuing medication from the pharmacy, in accordance with the prevailing safe systems of work
10. Providing professional and legal clinical supervision in the dispensary as allocated
11. Participating in and supervising technical staff in patient counselling to outpatient, inpatients, and day-case patients

Provide counselling and information about the use of medicines to all grades of healthcare staff and patients. Provide Medicines Information services to healthcare professionals from within and outside the Trust and to members of the general public. Undertake, where appropriate, post-graduate qualifications in clinical pharmacy. Please refer to the full job description and person specification.