Job summary
**NEW - Funding is available for eligible candidates to undertake the Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy**
The Trust has an exciting opportunity for a full-time rotational pharmacist to join our pharmacy team.
- Have you recently registered as a Pharmacist?
- Are you an established Pharmacist who wants to deliver high quality pharmaceutical care using an electronic prescribing and record system in a hospital team?
- Do you want to work in a supportive educational environment?
If so, come and join us at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust.
This exciting role will provide you with a range of rotational clinical pharmacy experience across various specialities within the Trust, as well as developing non-clinical skills.
This role will progress to a band 7 rotational position once the postholder has successfully worked through a planned advancement pathway aimed at holistically developing the pharmacist and bringing them up to band 7 level.
Uplift: RRP of £6,000 equally split over 2 years for band 6 only (relocation package may be considered).
Main duties of the job
You will work in a direct, patient-facing role ensuring the safe and appropriate use of medicines across the Trust.
Through the structured rotation plan you will be exposed to, and work within, a number of clinical areas, including:
- Medical wards
- Surgical wards
- Admissions wards
- Medicines Information
- Aseptic Production
- Palliative care
- Antimicrobial stewardship
- Inpatient and outpatient dispensary
The department works on an extended hours, seven day pharmacy service on a rostered basis, as well as providing an on-call service out of hours, which you will be involved in.
We have a fully integrated electronic prescribing and medication record system known as e-Care, which is supporting the pharmacy department to improve and monitor the care that we deliver. We also have BD dispensing robot installed in May 2019, and are currently exploring options for automation.
About us
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification attached for further information on the role.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Pharm/B Pharm/BSc Pharmacy
- Registered with the GPhC
Desirable
- Membership of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Post Graduate qualification in clinical Pharmacy or nearing completion, or demonstration of equivalent experience.
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Previous hospital/community pharmacy experience
- Knowledge of hospital pharmacy
Desirable
- Recent experience of working in hospital pharmacy
- Clinical ward experience
- Experience of patient counselling
- Experience of out of hours pharmacy service
- Experience of therapeutic drug monitoring
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Expected to deal with members of the public and other health care workers in a professional manner
- Close liaison with co-workers in the department and throughout the trust is vital
- Expected to have a broad knowledge of pharmaceutical issues
- Evidence of self-motivated professional development
- Expected to participate in the out of hours rotas
- Able to have a flexible approach to working hours/duties
- Attention to detail
- Good with time keeping
- Ability to travel
Desirable
- Ability to travel to all rural locations
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Demonstrates a professional attitude and has an understanding of professionalism
- Good communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Excellent Customer Service Skills
- Ability to work calmly and in an organised fashion in a busy environment
- Demonstrates ability to plan and prioritise own workload to meet deadlines
- Approachable and supportive to peers and other staff
- Flexibility to work in different areas Good team member
- Ability to work well on own initiative
- Ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues and patients
- Ability to work to deadlines and achieve agreed objectives
- Positive attitude towards personal/self development
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Pharm/B Pharm/BSc Pharmacy
- Registered with the GPhC
Desirable
- Membership of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Post Graduate qualification in clinical Pharmacy or nearing completion, or demonstration of equivalent experience.
Experience & Knowledge
Essential
- Previous hospital/community pharmacy experience
- Knowledge of hospital pharmacy
Desirable
- Recent experience of working in hospital pharmacy
- Clinical ward experience
- Experience of patient counselling
- Experience of out of hours pharmacy service
- Experience of therapeutic drug monitoring
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Expected to deal with members of the public and other health care workers in a professional manner
- Close liaison with co-workers in the department and throughout the trust is vital
- Expected to have a broad knowledge of pharmaceutical issues
- Evidence of self-motivated professional development
- Expected to participate in the out of hours rotas
- Able to have a flexible approach to working hours/duties
- Attention to detail
- Good with time keeping
- Ability to travel
Desirable
- Ability to travel to all rural locations
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Demonstrates a professional attitude and has an understanding of professionalism
- Good communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Excellent Customer Service Skills
- Ability to work calmly and in an organised fashion in a busy environment
- Demonstrates ability to plan and prioritise own workload to meet deadlines
- Approachable and supportive to peers and other staff
- Flexibility to work in different areas Good team member
- Ability to work well on own initiative
- Ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with colleagues and patients
- Ability to work to deadlines and achieve agreed objectives
- Positive attitude towards personal/self development
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
