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.
Key Responsibilities:
1. To partake in the Band 7 Rotations through different clinical specialties- including Paediatrics, Haematology/Oncology, Medicine & Surgery, and Critical Care.
2. To provide and develop the clinical pharmacy service to patients within the specialist area.
3. 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.
4. To supervise and train junior and trainee pharmacists.
5. To work closely with the Lead Pharmacists, clinicians, nursing staff and other senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to patients within the relevant directorates.
6. Provide a clinical pharmacy service to specialised areas and a clinical pharmacy service to cover other areas when ward cover is needed, including: medicines reconciliation and optimisation, review for need of drug therapies, counselling patients, discharge planning, assessing pharmaceutical care needs, and initiating care plans.
7. 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.
8. To take an active role in committees relating to specialist area e.g. clinical governance committee.
9. To evaluate, plan and implement service developments to improve the quality of the pharmacy service to the specialist area.
10. To support the Lead Pharmacist in the recruitment and management of pharmacists or ward technicians under the post holder, including appraisal, review and development.
11. To participate in pharmacy practice research and clinical audit activities.
12. To provide professional support to the pharmacy homecare team.
13. To be an active independent pharmacy prescriber, in line with Trust guidelines and current legislation.
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.
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