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Clinical Pharmacist
As our Clinical Pharmacist, you will provide the team with expert clinical leadership and direction so that pharmaceutical care is safe, effective, and person-centred.
Hours:37.5 per week, Monday to Friday, flexible shift pattern.
Clinical Pharmacist
Role profile:
- Support the pharmacy department to deliver an excellent medicine management service to all customers, supervising the procurement, preparation, dispensing and distribution of medicines.
- To provide pharmaceutical expertise and input to the care of the patients.
- To facilitate the daily running of the pharmacy department, providing a safe and effective medicines management service to all patients, staff, consultants and customers.
- Provide clinical input with respect to medicines to all patients.
- Ensure accurate and timely charging.
- Ensure compliance with all appropriate regulatory, professional and best practice frameworks.
Qualification & Experience:
- Degree in Pharmacy
- Registration as a Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (any existing or pending Fitness to Practice issues must be declared on application)
- Postgraduate Diploma relevant to hospital pharmacy practice is desirable but not essential
- Post registration experience of 2-3 years
- Clinical pharmacy experience in a secondary acute setting, or proven ability to transfer clinical skills into an acute setting.
Role and responsibilities include:
- To provide pharmaceutical expertise and input to the care of the patients
- To support the pharmacy department to delivery an excellent medicine management service to all customers.
- Attendance on daily multidisciplinary ward round
- To supervise the procurement, preparation, dispensing and distribution of medicines.
- Influence prescribing practice and medicines management within the Hospital.
- To facilitate the daily running of the Pharmacy Department, providing a safe and effective medicines management service to all patients, staff, consultants and customers.
- Ensure compliance with all appropriate regulatory, professional and best practice frameworks
- Ensure accurate and timely charging of invoices.
- Develop and implement Departmental Standard Operating Procedures
- Support the Chief Pharmacist to implement and monitor any national guidance, i.e. NICE guidance
- To participate in audit activities, which will improve the quality of the services, provided by the department including medication incident reporting.
Desirables
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Acute NHS Healthcare experience
- Acute Private Healthcare experience
- Postgraduate Diploma relevant to hospital pharmacy practice
Clinical Pharmacist
