Specialist Clinical Rotational Pharmacist

at  Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a Primary Care or Community based Pharmacist looking to change sector, or a band 6 Hospital Pharmacist looking to develop your career?
We have an exciting opportunity for a Pharmacist from any sector to progress their career here at Frimley Park.
Our Band 7 rotations are designed to prepare you for your next step in your career.
As part of the rotation you will be supported by our expert Pharmacy education team to develop your clinical skills and knowledge, with opportunities to rotate through a variety of specialities, including: Paediatrics, Medicine & Surgery, or Critical Care.
You will have completed either the CPPE Primary Care Pathway or the Clinical Diploma.
Get in touch or come for a visit to get more information.
To partake in the Band 7 Rotations through different clinical specialties- including Paediatrics, Haematology/Oncology, Medicine & Surgery, and Critical Care.
To provide and develop the clinical pharmacy service to patients within the specialist area.
To act as a role model in the field of clinical pharmacy practice and provide a consistently high standard of clinical service in line with the pharmacy objectives.
To supervise and train junior and trainee pharmacists.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values , and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future .
To work closely with the Lead Pharmacists, clinicians, nursing staff and other senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to patients within the relevant directorates.
Provide a clinical pharmacy service to specialised areas and a clinical pharmacy service to cover other areas when ward cover is needed. The service includes:
medicines reconciliation and optimisation
review for need of drug therapies, selection of appropriate drug therapies / doses / modification of existing therapies
counselling patients
discharge planning
assessing pharmaceutical care needs
initiating and carrying out care plans
advice to doctors / other health care staff
attending ward rounds as per departmental requirements which may involve flexibility of start / finish time
To work with clinicians and nurses to develop, implement and monitor the use of protocols within the specialist area to ensure the safe use and supply of medicines.
This includes the development of protocols and advice to nursing staff concerning the safe and appropriate use and storage of medication.
To take an active role in committees relating to specialist area e.g. clinical governance committee
To evaluate, plan and implement service developments to improve the quality of the pharmacy service to the specialist area.
To ensure that drugs utilised within FHFT reflect the recommendations, the policies and formulary of Frimley Health and those of tertiary centres. To increase economic awareness within the area through directorate financial reports and to advise on cost effective prescribing.
To support the production of drug evaluations for the Area Prescribing Committee as requested by the Prescribing Manager. To make recommendations to the directorate concerning the introduction and use of new drugs.
To support the Lead Pharmacist in the recruitment and management of pharmacists or ward technicians under the post holder, including appraisal, review and development.
To participate in pharmacy practice research and clinical audit activities.
To provide professional support to the pharmacy homecare team
To be an active independent pharmacy prescriber, in line with Trust guidelines and current legislation

Please refer the Job description for details