The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated pharmacists to join our team providing services at ward level and within the pharmacy department. The posts are fixed term for a period of 4 months (May to August 2025). You should be a keen learner, passionate about your clinical development and able to communicate well at all levels.
You will gain exposure and experience in a variety of clinical areas which may include general medicine, surgery, endocrinology, care of the elderly, fractured neck of femur, technical services and medicine information.
You will undertake a comprehensive induction programme within the pharmacy department when you join us to ensure you settle quickly into the role and department; this will include a general introduction to pharmacy at PAHT, completion of logs for checking, coordinating, medicine reconciliation, IP and TTA validation. You will have the opportunity to work and learn with experienced pharmacists on our acute assessment unit and frailty ward, whilst being supported throughout by our pharmacy education and training team and your line manager.
We actively support the development of our team to ensure they learn and grow with us.
Main duties of the job
As part of the Pharmacy team you will:
* Work to provide a dispensary based Pharmacy service to select, dispense, validate and check in-patient, out patient and discharge prescriptions as well as counselling patients.
* Take part in the provision of clinical services to all wards at Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust as well as other trusts to which pharmacy provide a service - monitor prescriptions at ward level as well as offer advice to Doctors, Nurses and other healthcare professionals.
* Provide support to our Medicine Information Service as well as our Technical Service Unit.
* Maintain registration, as a pharmacist, with the General Pharmaceutical Council, and to act in accordance with the code of ethics.
About us
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.
We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.
Job responsibilities
For further details, please refer to the attached job description and person specification, which is available to download at any time.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* GPHC Registered
Experience
* Able to effectively work with Medical Staff and other Healthcare Professionals.
* Ability to influence prescribing and dispensing practice/policy to promote pharmaceutical care.
* Good communication skills, both written and oral.
* Good team player with ability to work in a multidisciplinary team.
Knowledge
* Good General Education.
* Understanding the importance of monitoring quality of service.
* Knowledge and understanding of medicine legislation.
* Aware of current developments in pharmacy practice.
* Understanding the need for confidentiality awareness at all times.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum plus 5% high cost area supplement.
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