Job overview
Senior Pharmacist Admissions Band 7
We are looking for an experienced clinical pharmacists, based at Epsom to undertake this ward based role in our Acute Medical Admissions unit.
You will manage the pharmacy team in this challenging area, guiding and mentoring the ward based medicines management technicians, leading audits and projects to improve standards related to medicines management and decrease wastage within the Trust. You will also support more junior pharmacists in the development of their clinical and ward based skills with a particular focus on Medicines Reconciliation and working within the multi-disciplinary ward team.
You must have excellent communication and prioritisation skills and like to work in a busy ward environment.
Main duties of the job
To be a senior pharmacist to lead in the developments of pharmaceutical services at admission clinical areas, assisting the Deputy Chief Pharmacist, Clinical Services in developing Medicines Reconciliation processes within the Trust.
To assist in the provision of a comprehensive and efficient pharmaceutical service in accordance with required standards of quality and professional practice
Working for our organisation
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In the full job description you will see clearly the full range of duties within these roles that will enable you to work as part of the pharmacy team and with the clinicians and ward based teams to provide patient focused, individual care for our patients. Tell us in your application how you meet the criteria in the attached person specification.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
1. Post registration UK hospital experience (min 18 months)
2. Experience of providing services to a broad variety of patients
3. Demonstrate evidence of good clinical knowledge and skills.
Desirable criteria
4. Management of staff/ Staff appraisal
5. Post Graduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Skills
Essential criteria
6. Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
7. Good organisational skills, self and others.
8. Ability to motivate self and others
9. Demonstrate evidence of excellent clinical knowledge and skills.
Desirable criteria
10. Ability to manage change
11. Familiarity with CMM (formerly JAC) Pharmacy Computer System
Your application : Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
References : You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
Closing date : In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
Shortlisting : You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
DBS : We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
NameRobin ChungJob titleLead Pharmacist, MedicineEmail addressTelephone number01372 735151Additional information
Alternative contact: Emma Tang, Deputy Chief Pharmacist - Clinical Services @