Specialist Rotational Clinical Pharmacist, Band 7

Overview

We are looking for enthusiastic, patient-orientated clinical pharmacists to join our supportive clinical pharmacy team at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. You will become an integral member of our clinical pharmacy team, ensuring safe and effective prescribing and management of medication. Working across both our hospitals, Gloucestershire Royal and Cheltenham General, you will rotate through a wide variety of clinical specialties and provide clinical pharmacy service as part of a rotation to one or more specific clinical areas in order to promote safe, rational, effective and economic use of medicines.

• Act as deputy to the Clinical Pharmacist Leads for Medicine/Surgery.
• Provide expert pharmaceutical advice to a clinical area(s) and provide clinical pharmacy cover to other areas as required.
• Participate in the on-call, weekend and bank holiday pharmacy service rota as we move towards 7-day working.
• Undertake teaching and clinical supervision of pharmacists, foundation pharmacists, Medicines Optimisation Technicians and undergraduate pharmacy students.
• Undertake audits and service improvement projects within clinical pharmacy.
• Impact upon pay and non-pay budgets: exert downward influence upon drug expenditure within the trust and demonstrate actual cost savings on individual wards by improving the efficiency of the prescribing and dispensing process.
• Some day-to-day supervision of Band 6 Pharmacists (covering wards) and Medicines Optimisation technicians.

With a team of over 9,000 employees, we are proud to be the largest employer in Gloucestershire and rank among the top 10 largest Trusts in the South West region. The pharmacy department has approximately 240 staff. The 2 sites provide dispensary services to inpatients & outpatients, medicines information, procurement services and full clinical service to wards. Pharmacy is at the forefront of many exciting projects, including an award-winning service provided by pharmacist prescribers in orthopaedic pre-admission clinic.

Within the department are specialist clinical teams; the Specialist Mental Health Pharmacy facilitates delivery of Specialist services for Mental Health & Learning Disabilities. The cancer services team provides a pharmacy service at both sites for oncology & haematology and satellite pharmacy. We are a friendly, inclusive department who nurture and develop our staff at all grades, from a mentoring programme for band 6 pharmacists to the development of pharmacist prescribers.

Both hospitals are located in the city centres with access to shops and cafes.

Within the Pharmacy department at Gloucestershire Hospitals NHSFT, we are committed to supporting the South West Inclusive Pharmacy Practice manifesto.