Rotational Clinical Pharmacist - Band 6/7

Job summary

Rotational Clinical Pharmacist (with EDC)

Band 6/7 dependant upon experience.

£37,338 to £44,962 (Band 6) £46,148 to £52,809 (Band 7) per annum

Full time 37.5 hours per week

About the Department

An opportunity has arisen to join our expanding, friendly, diverse and inclusive pharmacy team at United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust.

The Pharmacy Departments within ULHT provide ward based, Dispensary, and Aseptic Dispensing Services to a range of general and specialist areas including Admissions Unit, General Medical and Surgical, Haematology and Oncology and Critical Care wards. We have a good integrated team of Clinical Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians and Support Workers and there is a supportive Pharmacy Education and Training team.

The post will be based at Pilgrim Hospital Boston but the successful applicant/s may need to travel to other sites within the Trust.

Main duties of the job

Our progressive department is in the process of a period of rapid transformational change to ensure that it is a service fit for the future and is at the forefront of the Hospital Pharmacy Transformation Programme.

We are dedicated to ensuring that medicines optimisation is embedded across all aspects of care within the Trust to deliver safe, efficient and cost-effective use of medicines.

We take pride in developing our pharmacists through formal and informal study, clinical supervision and training. We will support you to provide high quality services to patients and healthcare professionals alike. This includes offering opportunities to complete an accredited post-graduate clinical pharmacy diploma and pharmacist independent prescriber qualification.

We support progression from band 6 to band 7 upon completion of a post-graduate clinical diploma or equivalent experience. You will also work with lead Pharmacists to review and develop policies and contribute to monthly directorate medicines optimisation reports.

Applicants must be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.

The role will involve travel across all sites in the United Lincolnshire Hospital Trust therefore the post holder must be able to meet the travel requirements of this post.

About us

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.