Job summary
We're Hiring - Outpatient Pharmacists - BANK/RELIEF
Relief Outpatient Pharmacist Monday to Friday (9am-5:30pm) or Saturday and Sunday (10am-2pm)
About Us - Bold Environment and Community Spirited
Whittington Pharmacy is a vibrant state of the art workspace based in an enviable location within The Whittington Hospital, North London. Our aim is to provide the very best, efficient, safe and friendly service, tailored to the needs of our customers.
We are a Community Interest Company, wholly owned by Whittington Health NHS Trust, which means that our business is designed to make a real difference to our local community. Any profits we do make are reinvested into services for Whittington Health, to help local people live longer and healthier lives by providing safe, personal, coordinated care for the community we serve.
Main duties of the job
As a Pharmacist, you will be responsible for the provision of exceptional professional pharmacy services. The focus of your role will be to act as Responsible Pharmacist, provide support to the Managing Director/Superintendent Pharmacist, the rest of the pharmacy team and support the development of the business. You will help in ensuring a high quality patient and customer experience is maintained.
Must have one year post qualification community pharmacy or hospital pharmacy experience in the UK".
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Description
Job Title:
Relief Pharmacist
Company:
Whittington Pharmacy CIC
Salary:
Competitive salary will be offered
Base:
Whittington Pharmacy, Highgate Hill, London, N19 5NF
Responsible to:
Superintendent Pharmacist
Job Summary
As a Pharmacist, you will be responsible for the provision of exceptional professional pharmacy services. The focus of your role will be to act as Responsible Pharmacist, provide support to the Managing Director/Superintendent Pharmacist, the rest of the pharmacy team and support the development of the business. You will help in ensuring a high quality patient and customer experience is maintained.
The post holder will be part of a small high performing team that is expected to demonstrate behaviours that promote the subsidiary and Whittington Health values. This means that in undertaking this role the post holder is expected at all times to behave in a way that demonstrates commitment to the delivery of respectful and compassionate care as described below:
Job description
Job responsibilities
Job Description
Job Title:
Relief Pharmacist
Company:
Whittington Pharmacy CIC
Salary:
Competitive salary will be offered
Base:
Whittington Pharmacy, Highgate Hill, London, N19 5NF
Responsible to:
Superintendent Pharmacist
Job Summary
As a Pharmacist, you will be responsible for the provision of exceptional professional pharmacy services. The focus of your role will be to act as Responsible Pharmacist, provide support to the Managing Director/Superintendent Pharmacist, the rest of the pharmacy team and support the development of the business. You will help in ensuring a high quality patient and customer experience is maintained.
The post holder will be part of a small high performing team that is expected to demonstrate behaviours that promote the subsidiary and Whittington Health values. This means that in undertaking this role the post holder is expected at all times to behave in a way that demonstrates commitment to the delivery of respectful and compassionate care as described below:
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Excellent customer service skills oStrong communication skills - must be able to recognise and overcome
- Strong communication skills - must be able to recognise and overcome barriers to understanding e.g. language, deaf, learning difficulties
- Strong ability to multi-task, prioritise, plan and organise
- Demonstrable commitment to CPD and a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Clean DBS or able to pass one when required
- Fluent written and spoken English including good numeracy
- Registered with the GPHC (newly qualified accepted)
Desirable
- Accredited for locally commissioned enhanced services e.g. EHC, Minor Ailments, health checks and running extended services
- Post graduate qualification such as a Clinical Pharmacy diploma
- Experience in an outpatient Pharmacy setting
Experience
Essential
- Experience of acting as Responsible Pharmacist in a dispensary
Desirable
- Experience of working in a hospital pharmacy
- Experience of managing a pharmacy or a team
- Experience of using Analyst and JAC pharmacy computer system
- Experience of using prescription tracking systems
- Experience of working in an automated dispensary environment
Qualification
Essential
- Registered with the GPhC with no adverse Fitness to Practice record
Person Specification
Skills
Essential
- Excellent customer service skills oStrong communication skills - must be able to recognise and overcome
- Strong communication skills - must be able to recognise and overcome barriers to understanding e.g. language, deaf, learning difficulties
- Strong ability to multi-task, prioritise, plan and organise
- Demonstrable commitment to CPD and a member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
- Clean DBS or able to pass one when required
- Fluent written and spoken English including good numeracy
- Registered with the GPHC (newly qualified accepted)
Desirable
- Accredited for locally commissioned enhanced services e.g. EHC, Minor Ailments, health checks and running extended services
- Post graduate qualification such as a Clinical Pharmacy diploma
- Experience in an outpatient Pharmacy setting
Experience
Essential
- Experience of acting as Responsible Pharmacist in a dispensary
Desirable
- Experience of working in a hospital pharmacy
- Experience of managing a pharmacy or a team
- Experience of using Analyst and JAC pharmacy computer system
- Experience of using prescription tracking systems
- Experience of working in an automated dispensary environment
Qualification
Essential
- Registered with the GPhC with no adverse Fitness to Practice record
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
