New Year, new opportunity to support your career. We have an opportunity for a pharmacist to join our established and respected team, working both in the inpatient and community setting.
Looking to work in a teaching hospital? Come to work in ours. We are situated between Manchester and Liverpool, yes, we are smaller, but we have a world-renowned centre of excellence at the heart of pioneering orthopaedic surgery. We will become your pharmacy family, supporting your career and your personal well-being.
Our pharmacists are provided with opportunities for personal growth and development, including support for post-graduate qualifications in pharmacy, independent prescribing, and the opportunity to practice as a non-medical prescriber.
As a member of this busy but friendly team, you will experience many core aspects of pharmacy practice, including clinical work, commitments to the dispensary and aseptics, and contributing to our 7-day working and on-call service.
Pharmacists are part of an engaged and progressive Pharmacy team working to support our hospital areas where we help staff cope with the ever-increasing population and their complex needs.
Working closely with the multidisciplinary team, key aspects of this clinical post will include attending multidisciplinary team meetings, patient education and counselling, clinical audit, medicines safety, and medicines information.
As a member of this busy friendly team, you will experience many core aspects of pharmacy practice. We operate with 2 dispensaries on 4 main sites, and your rotation will allow you to experience a full range of clinical activities.
Key Areas of Experience:
* Medicine including medical admissions unit, cardiology and gastroenterology;
* Surgery including ICU and Surgical Admissions;
* Orthopaedics including Wrightington Hospital where you will gain experience of anti-TNF therapy and Rheumatology. This hospital has an international reputation, and the pharmacy team has significant involvement with consultants & nurse specialists to support and deliver this care;
* Oncology and Parenteral Nutrition;
* Paediatrics;
* Women's Health;
* Medicines Information;
* Medicines Safety;
* Clinical trials;
The department is fully modernised & has ARX robot, EMIS software and has successfully implemented Allscripts Electronic Prescribing in the last 3 years.
Choose Well – Choose WWL
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are the proud providers of acute hospital and community services to the people of the Wigan Borough and surrounding areas. At WWL, we value our staff believing that ‘happy staff, makes for happy patients’. We have a recognised track record in staff engagement and living our values ‘the WWL Way’.
WWL are committed to placing the patient at the heart of everything we do, and in the provision of safe, effective care that acknowledges and ensures dignity. With this in mind, we are seeking to recruit people who share our values and beliefs.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Ali Al-Chalabi
Job title: Clinical Lead Pharmacist
Email address: ali.al-chalabi@wwl.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01942 778835
or
Name: Jayne Dormand
Email address: jayne.dormand@wwl.nhs.uk
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