Clinical Pharmacist - Adult Assessment Unit
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
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Job summary
The Pharmacy department are looking to appoint a Clinical Pharmacist to join our successful Adult Assessment Unit (AAU) team. AAU provides an exciting, varied environment to work in and allows you to utilise your clinical and interpersonal skills.
You will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) alongside consultants, junior doctors, nurses and AHPs, optimising medicines and having a positive impact on the patient experience. In addition to providing a comprehensive pharmacy clinical service, there will be opportunities to participate in MDT meetings, service improvement projects and training of pharmacy staff and other AHPs.
Candidates must be well-rounded pharmacists with excellent team-working and communication skills to provide a patient-facing, high-quality 7-day clinical pharmacy service. Working patterns will involve 12 hr shifts (8am to 8pm or 10am-10pm) over a 7-day week, including bank holidays. In general this results in working 3 or 4 shifts per week alongside another AAU pharmacist and medicines management technician.
Main duties of the job
Main duties include:
- Ensuring medicines reconciliation is completed for patients admitted onto the assessment unit
- Clinically reviewing medication and working with doctors to ensure patients are on the most appropriate medication
- Working as part of the MDT
- Supporting the training and development of pharmacy staff, junior doctors and other allied health professionals
- Providing clinical support to the Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) unit
- Undertaking audit and project work as part of service review/service development
About us
Our Organisation
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Our Values
The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:
Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and effortsEveryday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from bothCreative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care
The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.
Date posted
30 May 2024
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£43,742 to £50,056 a year per annum plus 5% high cost area supplement
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
292-6337054-CSS
Job locations
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Hamstel Road
Harlow
CM20 1QX
Employer details
Employer name
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Address
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
Hamstel Road
Harlow
CM20 1QX
Employer's website
https://www.pah.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)
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