Job summary
Are you an enthusiastic and dynamic pharmacist who is passionate about patient care? If so, we would like you to join our progressive pharmacy team at Mid Yorkshire on our foundation pharmacist programme.
We have the following exciting opportunity:
Band 6 permanent role (including the possibility of a 2-year pathway leading to a Band 7 role).
The Pharmacy team at the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust are a friendly, innovative, and successful team. The Foundation Pharmacist programme will support you in your initial journey in hospital pharmacy.
Main duties of the job
The programme includes clinical rotations through various specialties at each of our hospital sites including medicine for older people, general surgery, paediatrics, cardiology, endocrinology, maternity and acute admissions. You will also gain experience working in our dispensaries, technical services and medicines information departments.
Training and support will be led by our Advanced Clinical Pharmacist for Education & Training with additional support provided by our senior and specialist pharmacists and our team of experienced technicians and support workers, which will enable the successful candidate to gain a thorough knowledge base and experience of clinical pharmacy. You will be supported through a structured induction process as well as provided with a wide range of training and development opportunities to build your foundation portfolio, including support to complete a Post Graduate Diploma in clinical pharmacy and the opportunity to undertake a non-medical prescribing qualification
The successful candidate will contribute to our emergency out of hours service, late night and weekend service on a rotational basis.
If you would like the discuss the post further, please contact Louise Benton - Lead for Pharmacy Education and Training or Eleanor Bradshaw Advanced Clinical Pharmacist Education & training on 01924 541385.
About us
We provide care and support to over half a million
people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, in community settings and
across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (in
Wakefield).
Always striving for excellence, we are at the
forefront of innovation and research and we invest in teaching and the
development of our workforce.
We live by our values of caring, improving, being
respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim
to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and the best place to receive care.
We have a clear vision, and you could be part of
this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of
our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Activities
1.
The post
holder is accountable for his/her own professional actions but will always be
working under the guidance of senior colleagues who will be available for
reference if required.
2.
The post
holder will be required to provide pharmaceutical care to patients in various
specialities on a rotational basis. They are responsible for ensuring that the
legal and statutory requirements in relation to medicines are met and for
ensuring the delivery of pharmaceutical care to patients meets both national
and local standards.
On
rotation the post holder will be required to:
3.
Carry out
duties in the dispensary to help ensure that medicines are provided in a
timely fashion for in-patients. These duties will include:
Act as the Responsible Pharmacist in line with
local procedure.
Clinical and accuracy checking of prescriptions.
Dispensing medicines.
Dealing with medicines for clinical trial
patients.
Ensuring adherence to medicines legislation and
accurate record keeping especially for those medicines covered by the Misuse of
Drugs Act.
Ensuring medicines are selected and employed in
accordance with the Trust Medicines Policy and the Drugs Formulary.
Supervising technicians and trainee pharmacists.
Educating patients and/or their representatives
about their medicines.
Liaising with various members of the
multi-disciplinary team.
Inputting patient related data into computers.
Managing and prioritising own workload to tight
deadlines and ensuring urgent work is done.
Moving stock when necessary.
Making
straightforward decisions relating to medicines provision.
4.
Carry out
duties in the Technical Services section, which will include:
Clinical and accuracy checking of prescriptions.
Dispensing and supervision of others in
dispensing (by manipulation and reconstitution) injectable medicines (and
ensuring safe and appropriate disposal of sharps and other waste).
Preparation and dispensing of special
formulations for external or internal use.
Liaising with medical and nursing staff with a
view to providing advice about intravenous nutrition (TPN) prescriptions.
Handling
and dispensing medicines used in the treatment of cancer (cytotoxic medicines).
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Activities
1.
The post
holder is accountable for his/her own professional actions but will always be
working under the guidance of senior colleagues who will be available for
reference if required.
2.
The post
holder will be required to provide pharmaceutical care to patients in various
specialities on a rotational basis. They are responsible for ensuring that the
legal and statutory requirements in relation to medicines are met and for
ensuring the delivery of pharmaceutical care to patients meets both national
and local standards.
On
rotation the post holder will be required to:
3.
Carry out
duties in the dispensary to help ensure that medicines are provided in a
timely fashion for in-patients. These duties will include:
Act as the Responsible Pharmacist in line with
local procedure.
Clinical and accuracy checking of prescriptions.
Dispensing medicines.
Dealing with medicines for clinical trial
patients.
Ensuring adherence to medicines legislation and
accurate record keeping especially for those medicines covered by the Misuse of
Drugs Act.
Ensuring medicines are selected and employed in
accordance with the Trust Medicines Policy and the Drugs Formulary.
Supervising technicians and trainee pharmacists.
Educating patients and/or their representatives
about their medicines.
Liaising with various members of the
multi-disciplinary team.
Inputting patient related data into computers.
Managing and prioritising own workload to tight
deadlines and ensuring urgent work is done.
Moving stock when necessary.
Making
straightforward decisions relating to medicines provision.
4.
Carry out
duties in the Technical Services section, which will include:
Clinical and accuracy checking of prescriptions.
Dispensing and supervision of others in
dispensing (by manipulation and reconstitution) injectable medicines (and
ensuring safe and appropriate disposal of sharps and other waste).
Preparation and dispensing of special
formulations for external or internal use.
Liaising with medical and nursing staff with a
view to providing advice about intravenous nutrition (TPN) prescriptions.
Handling
and dispensing medicines used in the treatment of cancer (cytotoxic medicines).
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience in pharmacy practice obtained through pre-registration training and examination.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and experience in UK hospital pharmacy.
Special Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- The post holder must be equally at ease talking to patients, medical and nursing staff of all grades in both primary and secondary care and will need to present written and verbal reports to senior hospital staff.
- The post holder must have basic keyboard skills and familiarity with routine office software word processing, spread sheeting and PowerPoint.
Desirable
- Interprets information and provides advice.
- Awareness of own limitations and when to refer to others for advice.
- Dispensing and accuracy checking skills.
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in pharmacy obtained through four years undergraduate training.
- Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council achieved by pre-registration training/experience and examination.
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
- Membership of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacists Association.
- Membership of the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Exhibits an enthusiasm for development of the practice of Pharmacy
- Able to work as an individual and within a team. Possesses personal organisational attributes.
- Responds positively to service deadlines.
- Able to plan and manage own workload.
- Possesses good verbal and written communication skills.
- The post holder must display an understanding of and ability to deal with the confidential and sensitive information with which they will come into contact on a daily basis.
- The post holder will need the necessary skills to be able to communicate complicated medication issues to patients and carers in order that they may understand and make best use of their medicines.
- The post holder must display an understanding and ability to communicate and deal with all patients and/or carers some of whom may have language, sensory or learning difficulties, or who may be dying or distressed because of their diagnosis or state of health.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Experience in pharmacy practice obtained through pre-registration training and examination.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and experience in UK hospital pharmacy.
Special Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- The post holder must be equally at ease talking to patients, medical and nursing staff of all grades in both primary and secondary care and will need to present written and verbal reports to senior hospital staff.
- The post holder must have basic keyboard skills and familiarity with routine office software word processing, spread sheeting and PowerPoint.
Desirable
- Interprets information and provides advice.
- Awareness of own limitations and when to refer to others for advice.
- Dispensing and accuracy checking skills.
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in pharmacy obtained through four years undergraduate training.
- Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council achieved by pre-registration training/experience and examination.
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
- Membership of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacists Association.
- Membership of the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Exhibits an enthusiasm for development of the practice of Pharmacy
- Able to work as an individual and within a team. Possesses personal organisational attributes.
- Responds positively to service deadlines.
- Able to plan and manage own workload.
- Possesses good verbal and written communication skills.
- The post holder must display an understanding of and ability to deal with the confidential and sensitive information with which they will come into contact on a daily basis.
- The post holder will need the necessary skills to be able to communicate complicated medication issues to patients and carers in order that they may understand and make best use of their medicines.
- The post holder must display an understanding and ability to communicate and deal with all patients and/or carers some of whom may have language, sensory or learning difficulties, or who may be dying or distressed because of their diagnosis or state of health.
Additional information
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).
