Clinical Pharmacist - Suffolk (£3000 recruitment bonus)

Job summary

Are you a pharmacist looking for new challenges? This is an exciting time at NSFT, join us as we transform our Clinical Pharmacy services.

Due to significant investment in our Pharmacy team and the creation of a range of exciting new posts we are now looking to recruit new Clinical Pharmacists to join our friendly Pharmacy teams across the trust.

We have vacancies within the Suffolk Clinical Team based at Woodlands Unit at Ipswich Hospital and Wedgwood House in Bury St Edmunds

Pharmacists from any clinical background can apply as we provide comprehensive postgraduate training opportunities and supervision. Your main role will be to work with the multidisciplinary team to provide a clinical pharmacy service to the in-patient wards. There may also be opportunities to work with the Crisis teams and our mother and baby unit. You must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

From Autumn 2022, HEE supports the training of all eligible mental health pharmacists in Independent Prescribing, making this an ideal time to join us if you have an interest in developing mental health as your area of prescribing practice. Our pharmacists with postgraduate mental health and prescribing qualifications have gone on to new and exciting roles within NSFT which continue to develop as our pharmacy service expands.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will lead on medicines optimisation for service users and carers in a clinical setting by

• Clinically validate prescriptions for both inpatients and outpatients using electronic prescribing software
• Integrate fully within the multidisciplinary team and participate in patient reviews
• Provide direct patient care to our service users throughout their admission to mental health services
• Provide clinical advice and guidance to a range of healthcare professionals on both mental health any physical health medication
• Provide Medicines Education to patients
• Take the lead on medicines optimisation and medicines related Quality Improvement within your clinical setting
• There is no dispensary commitment with this post.

About us

Benefits included with this role are:-

• NHS pension
• Comprehensive in house & external training programmes
• Career progression
• Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
• Staff physio service
• NHS discounts and many more.

Here at NSFT we pride ourselves on being a welcoming, talented, friendly and supportive team who like nothing better than sharing their experiences and learning from each other. We will support you in accessing training and CPD.

This post attracts a recruitment premium of £3,000 (pro-rata for part time roles). This is a one off payment with half paid on appointment and half paid after the completion of a satisfactory probation period (6 months). The premium is taxable. Please note that should you leave employment, or choose to move to an alternative post within the Trust that does not attract this recruitment premium, you will be required to reimburse all or some it, as follows: 100% of the value of the premium in the first 12 months; 50% of the value of the premium in the period 12 months to 2 years following appointment. Please note this recruitment premium is for external applicants only.

Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Woodlands Unit, Ipswich Hospital

Heath Rd

Ipswich

IP4 5PD

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust

Address

Woodlands Unit, Ipswich Hospital

Heath Rd

Ipswich

IP4 5PD

Employer's website

https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx (Opens in a new tab)

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