Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

10 hours ago

Royal Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust Full time

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, innovative and hard-working individual to join us as a senior rotational clinical pharmacist. You will be supported in your role by our specialist Principal Pharmacists leading; Admissions, Specialist medicine, Patient services, ITU, VTE, Frailty, Surgery, Medicines Information, and Women's & Children's directorates.

You will rotate across various specialities to help develop clinical pharmacy services at the Tunbridge Wells Hospital, working closely with the Principal Pharmacists and wider pharmacy team to promote and ensure best practice across all care groups.

You will play an essential role in optimising the patient's care during their hospital stay and in preparation for discharge. The rotational role will give you enhanced clinical experience across different disciplines and will involve working in conjunction with the wider multidisciplinary team.

The Clinical Pharmacy Team endeavours to provide an outstanding service in medicines management and medicines optimisation, as well as supporting an effective training environment for our Foundation Pharmacists and other trainees. You will be supported to achieve agreed objectives within given deadlines and have the opportunity to develop more advanced clinical knowledge and negotiating skills as a senior clinical pharmacist.

Main duties of the job

You must have previous experience of working within a hospital clinical environment and will have completed at least foundation stage one of the post-graduate certificate in clinical pharmacy (or equivalent). Further study will also be encouraged prescribing, clinical, audit and leadership.

To lead, develop, and participate in clinical pharmacy services across the Trust. To act as a role model and to provide specialist and general advice to the various specialties. To participate regularly in multidisciplinary ward rounds, including post-take ward rounds, delivering and promoting high quality, cost-effective, patient-focused pharmaceutical care. To ensure a high level of clinical pharmacy input to areas within the care groups. To promote safe and economic drug use, and identify and manage risk within the specialty. To develop, implement and audit guidelines, policies and procedures To be responsible for financial reporting, drug usage and expenditure forecasting, and drug budget management To provide education and training to clinical pharmacy staff, healthcare professionals, patients and carers within and outside the Trust To work across the interface to ensure continuity of pharmaceutical care at admission and discharge To participate in practice and clinical research and audit To work with the Principal Pharmacist to extend the boundaries of professional practice within the care groups.

About us

MTW is a large acute hospital trust in the south-east of England.

We provide a full range of general hospital services and some aspects of specialist and complex care to around 600,000 people living in west Kent and East Sussex. We have a team of over 8,000 full and part-time staff. We also provide specialist cancer services to around 2 million people across Kent and East Sussex via the Kent Oncology Centre.

In the 2024 NHS staff survey, our employees ranked MTW among the top 10 NHS Trusts nationwide and the second-best Trust to work for in the South East.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Once your pre-employment checks have been completed you will be contacted by Recruitment to arrange your start date which will be in line with one of our Corporate Inductions.

Please note that appointment to this post will be subject to a satisfactory Disclosure & Barring Service Check at Enhanced level. (Enhanced level now includes regulated checks against vulnerable adults and children)

At MTW, we seek to develop a culture where everyone can reach their full potential with opportunities to grow and develop their career. We recognise and value the unique contributions that each of our staff bring, delivering the best quality care and service to our patients. We are committed to being a diverse employer and strive to reflect everyone in our local communities. We welcome applications from people of diverse backgrounds, perspectives and experiences and celebrate the diversity of thought, viewpoints and ideas that will make our Trust the best place to work.

We support our staff with disabilities to ensure they have the adjustments they need to be the best they can be in the workplace. Collaborating with Access to Work means that our staff are assessed by experts in the workplace and we ensure that their recommendations are implemented as quickly as possible. You can find out more here: Access to Work: get support if you have a disability or health condition: What Access to Work is - (

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Master (MPharm) degree in pharmacy Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council Completion of Foundation Stage 1 Training

Desirable

Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Undertaking or completion of Foundation Stage 2 Training Independent/supplementary prescribing qualification

Experience

Essential

Post registration hospital experience or equivalent documented clinical experience Experience of delivering a high quality clinical pharmacy service to wards/departments Experience in Clinical Pharmacy training Excellent clinical and pharmaceutical knowledge relating to promotion of high quality, effective and cost effective use of medicines Understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management and their influence on current practice

Desirable

Experience of clinical audit and/or practice research Experience of acting as a trainee pharmacist tutor Experience acting as a tutor/supervisor for clinical pharmacy certificate and diploma students Knowledge of the changing NHS environment and government initiatives NICE, NSF etc.

Skills

Essential

Excellent verbal and written communication skills Ability to plan, prioritise and organise workload Effective customer service skills - able to work to meet the needs of customers of the department. Good time management skills

Desirable

Good word processing and IT skills

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