Main area: Pharmacy
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (shift working on a rota)
Job ref: 190-8530-DIR
Employer: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Northern General Hospital
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 01/12/2024 23:59
Interview date: 09/12/2024
NHS AfC: Band 6
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages, and financial support systems.
Job overview
Our post registration foundation pharmacists gain clinical rotational experience across a full range of specialities, as well as departmental rotations through dispensaries, aseptic and medicines information services. We have an excellent clinical pharmacy training programme, tailored to develop your clinical skills and meet individual needs. This provides a foundation for undertaking a two-year MSc/PG Diploma in Foundation Pharmacy Practice with University of Bradford. Post diploma, we can offer exciting opportunities for career advancement and personal development including independent pharmacist prescribing, in-house advanced pharmacist development programme, masters, research, and audit.
The post registration foundation pharmacist team delivers the pharmacy out of hours service. The team works on a shift rota and gains experience of working at both main hospital sites. Comprehensive induction, training, and support is provided for all new staff prior to starting out of hours working.
Applications are welcomed from registered pharmacists as well as those who are expected to complete their training and join the General Pharmaceutical Council register by December 2024.
Main duties of the job
* Gain clinical rotational experience across a full range of specialities.
* Participate in departmental rotations through dispensaries, aseptic, and medicines information services.
* Engage in the clinical pharmacy training programme to develop clinical skills.
* Work as part of the post registration foundation pharmacist team to deliver the pharmacy out of hours service.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff, including commitments to professional development and policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
The post offers an excellent opportunity for band 6 to 7 progression, subject to completion of necessary in-house criteria including completion of a Postgraduate Certificate in Foundation Pharmacy Practice and a successful portfolio review.
Person specification
Qualifications
* MPharm in pharmacy
* General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registered pharmacist (or expected to be on the register by the time the post is taken up).
Experience
* Significant foundation training experience
* Understanding of pharmacy out of hours services
* More than 3/12 UK hospital foundation training experience
Skills and Knowledge
* Completion of clinical and professional sections of the UKMI training portal
* Audit
* Achievement of dispensing and checking competency
* Aseptic competency
* IT competency
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When selecting to apply via NHS Jobs, you will be redirected to our preferred recruitment system called Trac. You will be asked to create and submit your application via the Trac recruitment system.
Contact Information
If you have further questions, please contact:
Priya Boparai
Principal Pharmacist
Telephone: 0114 271 3773
Email: priya.boparai@nhs.net
Teresa Buckley
Principal Pharmacist
Telephone: 0114 271 5801
Email: teresa.buckley1@nhs.net
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