Rotational Senior Clinical Pharmacist | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 05 Mehefin 2025 |
|---|---|
| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | per annum pro rata |
| Oriau: | Rhan Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 05 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Walsall, WS2 9PS |
| Cwmni: | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7163687/407-WCCSS-7163687 |
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for self-motivated and enthusiastic individuals to join our senior clinical pharmacist programme. With the current & future landscape for pharmacy professionals we have aligned our clinical pharmacy strategy to develop a pharmacy team that can excel in balancing patient care and service demand with their own professional development. You will have rotational opportunities across several specialties along with daily opportunities to work as part of an MDT and develop your interpersonal, professional & clinical skills.
We are a forward-thinking department and are actively embedding pharmacist prescribers into our services, with Pharmacist IPs working in Medicine, Surgery, Heart Failure, Oncology, Community Services & OPAT to-date.
We aim to produce a workforce equipped with strong clinical knowledge, a positive attitude, and a great team ethic. During your rotations you will be supported with protected learning time and mentorship via the pharmacist professional development programme underpinned by RPS standards to develop your skills. This post is ideally suited to those seeking career advancement and you will be supported to progress onto the independent prescribing course.
PLEASE NOTE, WE MAY CLOSE THIS VACANCY EARLY IF WE RECEIVE HIGH NUMBERS OF APPLICATIONS.
• Participates in the provision of a comprehensive pharmaceutical service to Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust and to those organisations with which the Trust has a contract for supply of pharmaceutical services.
• Undertakes clinical pharmacy duties to delegated wards, advising junior & senior medical staff and nurses on effective and safe prescribing and administration of medicines.
• Provides training and support to the undergraduate, pre-registration pharmacists & less experienced pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and, where requested, other ward staff.
• Undertakes risk assessments and implements risk reducing measures, where appropriate reviewing and updating safe systems of work on a regular basis.
• Post holders will be required to undertake weekend, bank holidays and on-call work on a rota basis.
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300. It provides inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010, and ongoing upgrades ensure the Trust now has state-of-the-art facilities, including a Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit. A new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre, opened in March 2023, has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity, providing almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.
Participates in the Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust rotational training programme for training grade pharmacists. As part of the rotational training programme, the post holder will provide ward based clinical services, supporting safe prescribing and administration of medicines in the allocated wards/departments of Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, ensuring clinical practice is evidence based, shared, and, wherever possible, patient focused. Will also provide patient counselling and assist in the provision of Medicines Information as part of their role.
Professionally checks prescriptions in the dispensary, including those for cytotoxic drugs, clinical trials and controlled drugs, and assists in dispensing and final checking as required.
Complies with the Clinical Pharmacy Service Guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures, ensuring that the Chief Pharmacist is made aware of any circumstances that would, or may, militate against safe standards of clinical practice. Reports, and encourages other to report, all Adverse Drug reactions in-line with departmental guidelines.
Promotes awareness of and assists in the implementation of the Trust’s Medicines Management Group decisions, including the current contents of the formulary and Trust Pharmacy Policies, and assists medical and prescribing nursing staff to adjust prescribing practices in line with the evidence base and formulary requirements.
Will comply with the requirement of Clinical Pharmacy productivity tools and audits assigned and maintain full records of clinical activity and interventions using pharmacy electronic systems.
Post-holder will be required to undertake late night, weekend, bank holidays and on-call work on a rota basis.
This advert closes on Thursday 19 Jun 2025
We are a forward-thinking department and are actively embedding pharmacist prescribers into our services, with Pharmacist IPs working in Medicine, Surgery, Heart Failure, Oncology, Community Services & OPAT to-date.
We aim to produce a workforce equipped with strong clinical knowledge, a positive attitude, and a great team ethic. During your rotations you will be supported with protected learning time and mentorship via the pharmacist professional development programme underpinned by RPS standards to develop your skills. This post is ideally suited to those seeking career advancement and you will be supported to progress onto the independent prescribing course.
PLEASE NOTE, WE MAY CLOSE THIS VACANCY EARLY IF WE RECEIVE HIGH NUMBERS OF APPLICATIONS.
• Participates in the provision of a comprehensive pharmaceutical service to Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust and to those organisations with which the Trust has a contract for supply of pharmaceutical services.
• Undertakes clinical pharmacy duties to delegated wards, advising junior & senior medical staff and nurses on effective and safe prescribing and administration of medicines.
• Provides training and support to the undergraduate, pre-registration pharmacists & less experienced pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and, where requested, other ward staff.
• Undertakes risk assessments and implements risk reducing measures, where appropriate reviewing and updating safe systems of work on a regular basis.
• Post holders will be required to undertake weekend, bank holidays and on-call work on a rota basis.
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300. It provides inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010, and ongoing upgrades ensure the Trust now has state-of-the-art facilities, including a Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit. A new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre, opened in March 2023, has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity, providing almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.
Participates in the Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust rotational training programme for training grade pharmacists. As part of the rotational training programme, the post holder will provide ward based clinical services, supporting safe prescribing and administration of medicines in the allocated wards/departments of Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, ensuring clinical practice is evidence based, shared, and, wherever possible, patient focused. Will also provide patient counselling and assist in the provision of Medicines Information as part of their role.
Professionally checks prescriptions in the dispensary, including those for cytotoxic drugs, clinical trials and controlled drugs, and assists in dispensing and final checking as required.
Complies with the Clinical Pharmacy Service Guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures, ensuring that the Chief Pharmacist is made aware of any circumstances that would, or may, militate against safe standards of clinical practice. Reports, and encourages other to report, all Adverse Drug reactions in-line with departmental guidelines.
Promotes awareness of and assists in the implementation of the Trust’s Medicines Management Group decisions, including the current contents of the formulary and Trust Pharmacy Policies, and assists medical and prescribing nursing staff to adjust prescribing practices in line with the evidence base and formulary requirements.
Will comply with the requirement of Clinical Pharmacy productivity tools and audits assigned and maintain full records of clinical activity and interventions using pharmacy electronic systems.
Post-holder will be required to undertake late night, weekend, bank holidays and on-call work on a rota basis.
This advert closes on Thursday 19 Jun 2025