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Key responsibilities include conducting clinical pharmacy duties on designated wards, professionally checking prescriptions, providing patient counselling, and ensuring compliance with clinical guidelines and safety protocols. The role also involves participating in audits and documenting clinical activities while maintaining awareness of the Trust’s Medicines Management decisions. Candidates must have the right to work in the UK, as sponsorship is not available for this position. The post requires flexibility, as it includes weekend, bank holiday, and on-call work in a supportive, forward-thinking environment.
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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a self-motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our team as a bank Clinical Pharmacist. With the current & future landscape for pharmacy professionals we have aligned our clinical pharmacy strategy to develop a pharmacy team that can excel in balancing patient care and service demand with their own professional development. You will have rotational opportunities across several specialities along with opportunities to work as part of an MDT and develop your interpersonal, professional & clinical skills.
We are a forward-thinking department and are actively embedding pharmacist prescribers into our services, with Pharmacist IPs working in Medicine, Surgery, Heart Failure, Oncology, Community Services & OPAT to-date. We are very supportive of pharmacy professionals putting forward their own ideas for service improvements and are committed to developing a strong Quality Improvement ethos, with a formal Quality, Service Improvement and Redesign accreditation also on offer.
We aim to produce a workforce equipped with strong clinical knowledge, a positive attitude, and a great team ethic. This post is ideally suited both to pre-registration or newly qualified pharmacists, and community pharmacists interested in a sector change.
PLEASE NOTE WE CANNOT OFFER SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS POST. ONLY APPLY IF YOU HAVE RIGHTS TO WORK IN THE UK.
- Participates in the provision of a comprehensive pharmaceutical service to Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust and to those organisations with which the Trust has a contract for supply of pharmaceutical services.
- Undertakes clinical pharmacy duties to delegated wards, advising junior & senior medical staff and nurses on effective and safe prescribing and administration of medicines.
- Provides training and support to the undergraduate, pre-registration pharmacists & less experienced pharmacists, pharmacy technicians and, where requested, other ward staff.
- Undertakes risk assessments and implements risk reducing measures, where appropriate reviewing and updating safe systems of work on a regular basis.
- Post holders will be required to undertake weekend, bank holidays and on-call work on a rota basis.
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PLEASE NOTE WE CANNOT OFFER SPONSORSHIP FOR THIS POST. ONLY APPLY IF YOU HAVE RIGHTS TO WORK IN THE UK.
The post holder will provide ward based clinical services, supporting safe prescribing and administration of medicines in the allocated wards/departments of Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust, ensuring clinical practice is evidence based, shared, and, wherever possible, patient focused. Will also provide patient counselling and assist in the provision of Medicines Information as part of their role.
Professionally checks prescriptions in the dispensary, including those for cytotoxic drugs, clinical trials and controlled drugs, and assists in dispensing and final checking as required.
Complies with the Clinical Pharmacy Service guidelines and SOPs and is expected to meet the standards set out in the guidelines and SOPs, ensuring that the Director of Pharmacy is made aware of any circumstances that would, or may, militate against safe standards of clinical practice. Reports, and encourages other to report, all Adverse Drug reactions in-line with departmental guidelines.
Promotes awareness of and assists in the implementation of the Trusts Medicines Management Group decisions, including the current contents of the formulary and Trust Pharmacy Policies, and assists medical and prescribing nursing staff to adjust prescribing practices in line with the evidence base and formulary requirements.
Will comply with the requirement of productivity tools and audits assigned by the pharmacy senior management team and maintain full records of clinical activity and interventions using pharmacy electronic systems.
Postholder will be required to undertake late night, weekend, bank holidays and on-call work on a rota basis.
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