This post is based at St. Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Rd, Newport PO30 5TG
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Isle of Wight NHS Trust
Band 7 Specialist Pharmacist: Your Opportunity to Excel on the Beautiful Isle of Wight!
Are you an ambitious pharmacist ready to significantly advance your career? The Isle of Wight NHS Trust are seeking Band 7 Specialist Rotational Pharmacists to join our dynamic and supportive Pharmacy Team at St Mary's Hospital. This is your chance to develop specialist expertise on our stunning Island!
Rapid Skill Development: Our well-established rotational program offers invaluable experience across a diverse range of specialties: Emergency Department, Acute Assessment Unit, General Medicine, Stroke, Care of Older People, General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Oncology, Haematology, and Hospice care.
Technology-Driven Practice: Benefit from a fully integrated medicines management system, including EPMA (embedded for over 10 years), seamless links to dispensing, stock control, Omnicell, and pharmacy robotics all designed to enhance your clinical practice and free up time for patient-focused care.
Main duties of the job
Hours: Full time 37.5 hours
Contract: Permanent
As a Specialist Rotational Pharmacist, you will:
- Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams on prescribing decisions.
- Undertake rotations in Oncology/Haematology, frailty and older person care, Urgent and Emergency Services, and other clinical areas.
- Monitor prescriptions and develop patient-centred pharmaceutical care plans.
- Ensure seamless pharmaceutical care through accurate drug histories and discharge planning.
- Actively contribute to medicines safety and quality improvement initiatives.
- Mentor and train other pharmacy and healthcare professionals.
- Participate in education and health promotion activities.
- Represent pharmacy in Trust meetings.
- Contribute to a weekday service with some weekend and on-call duties (home-based with initial screening).
- Develop leadership and management skills.
- Support medicines safety including investigating medicines safety incidents.
- Provide line management support to pharmacy team members.
- Provide education and health promotion to patients and the public.
- Actively involved in training and development of other health care professionals.
- Actively support medicines safety including supporting the investigation of medicines safety incidents.
Qualifications
- Master of Pharmacy.
- Current listing on the Pharmacist Register with the GPhC.
- Diploma in pharmacy practice or equivalent experience.
- Completed general level framework competency training.
Additional criteria
- Able to share learning with others.
- Able to interpret complex clinical data.
- Able to negotiate with other healthcare professionals in relation to pharmaceutical care of patients.
- Able to perform accurate and complex calculations.
- Problem solving and decision making skills.
- Ability to work effectively with senior clinical personnel.
- Ability to work effectively under pressure.
Experience
- Significant clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience.
- Significant experience of working in hospital pharmacy.
- Significant experience of working in a pharmaceutical environment. Knowledge of national guidelines relating to medicines and pharmaceutical practice.
- Specialist knowledge and experience in clinical speciality.
£49,387 to £56,515 a year Negotiable based on your experience.
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