Rotational Pharmacist Specialist

We are recruiting for a Rotational Pharmacist Specialist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

We are looking for highly motivated pharmacists to join our award winning, innovative, progressive, patient-centred pharmacy team. We are a friendly department and will support you to become an outstanding clinical pharmacist and help you fulfil your full potential.

We offer a structured rotational program which includes specialities such as ED, acute medicine, critical care, endocrinology, respiratory, Frailty (new exciting rotation), gastroenterology, vascular surgery, aseptic oncology / haematology and a renowned renal services unit, working with a Consultant Renal Pharmacist.

We will fully fund and support you to undertake relevant post graduate training including the prescribing qualification and leadership training.

We will develop your portfolio of skills to prepare you for more senior roles within the department through involvement in directorate and project work focused on improving quality of clinical services and patient-focused care.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

To join the multidisciplinary team and provide expert pharmacy services to a variety of inpatient wards.

To utilise specialist pharmaceutical skills to drive innovation and continuous improvement within selected specialties.

To support Pharmacy Team Leads for Unplanned Care/Planned Care, in directorate reporting, audits, guideline/policy updates and financial and medicines information.

To be a clinical mentor and guide junior pharmacists, foundation trainee pharmacists throughout their training programmes.

To participate in the departmental emergency duty rota, currently less than 1 in 20.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification Qualifications and Training

• Master Degree MPharm
• Competency assessed and examined professional registration MRPharmS
• Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice
• Pharmacy Practice or equivalent or successful completion of General Practice Diploma Core Course and examination or equivalent experience

Previous Experience

• Appropriate post qualification experience in hospital pharmacy
• Previous experience in providing clinical services to wards
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• Proven experience of audit
• Project management
• Clinical tutoring of post graduate trainee pharmacist

Skills

• Excellent communication skills verbal and written
• Able to work alone or in a team
• Can show appropriate applications of clinical knowledge and effective pharmaceutical care skills

Knowledge

• Good Clinical Knowledge at consultant level
• Up to date knowledge of national pharmacy issues

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.