Job Description
Position Summary:
The Bank Pharmacist provides ad hoc support to ensure business and clinical continuity within the elective hospital. This role involves delivering high-quality pharmacy services, including clinical and specialist activities, to support the safe, effective, and efficient use of medicines.
This includes tasks such as medications reconciliation, prescription review, discharge planning, and offering expert advice to patients and healthcare professionals.
The position requires flexibility to provide cover during staff absence or peak demand periods.
* Working hours are typically 09:00–17:00 with a 30-minute lunch break.
Clinical Responsibilities:
* Establish and resolve individual patient pharmaceutical care issues to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines. This includes medication history taking, medicines reconciliation, and prescription monitoring.
* Provide advice on dosage adjustments as necessary.
* Monitor patients for adverse reactions or unexpected medication-related events.
* Document details of ADRs in the hypersensitivity section of case notes, the prescription and administration record, and discharge letters.
Discharge Planning:
* Review patients before discharge to address pharmaceutical care-related issues, promoting efficient patient flow, considering factors such as patient education, adherence to medication regimens, seamless care, discharge prescription accuracy, and review of patients' own medicines for return or destruction.
Technical Skills & Application:
* Ensure accurate and legal dispensing and issue of prescriptions.
* Dispensing and checking controlled drugs for departmental use and for discharge medication.
* Conduct regular reviews of inpatient prescription charts for clinical and financial appropriateness.
* Provide professional advice and patient counselling on medication use.
* Operate in compliance with health and safety policies and participate in mandatory training.
About Us:
We recognize that our people are our most important asset. Our company culture prioritizes delivering exceptional care to our patients, while also supporting our staff.
We value equality of opportunity for all and strive to create an inclusive environment. We are committed to supporting the Armed Forces community and have been recognized for our efforts through the MOD's Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme.