Job Summary
Would you like the opportunity of gaining experience as a clinical pharmacist in a supportive learning environment and optimise medicines for patients? You will join us as an early careers pharmacist (band 6) progressing through our training programme to a rotational senior pharmacist (band 7). The complete programme will take between 3 to 4 years depending upon start date in the department, course logistics and your progress.

This post provides the opportunity to develop your clinical skills and knowledge aligning to the successful completion of foundation training period and demonstration of appropriate competence in line with national frameworks.

A satisfactory review of your portfolio at 18 months will result in progression to the SFHT "Rotational Band 7 post" at 21 months.

You will be joining a team of Early Career Pharmacists who operate an out of hours service with extended hours and overnight service from home.

This is a full time post providing an out of hours Pharmacy service via shift working on a rota basis. You will undertake 3 month rotations during normal working hours across a variety of clinical areas. These rotations offer the opportunity to learn about different clinical specialities within a supervised and supportive environment.

This post is open to qualified pharmacists and trainee pharmacists due to join the GPhC register.

Main Duties of the Job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About Us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• BSc, BPharm or MPharm in Pharmacy
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Desirable

• Post-graduate studies.
• Independent prescribing
• Diploma or MSc in clinical pharmacy gained through post-graduate study or equivalent experience including the CPPE Primary care pharmacy education pathway

Further Training
Desirable

• Formalised quality improvement training
• Other relevant pharmacy / healthcare related training courses

Knowledge
Essential

• Clinical Pharmacy knowledge associated with a 4 year Pharmacy degree course.
• Knowledge gained through 1 year pre-registration training.
• Knowledge gained through vocational practice.
• Clinical knowledge from aspects of career to date.
• Evidence-based practice.

Experience / Skills
Essential

• Strong pharmaceutical care focus.
• Ability to work in a team
• Good communication skills
• Good problem solving skills
• Prioritisation skills/good time management
• Audit and/or quality improvement experience.

Desirable

• Appropriate experience of hospital pharmacy
• Project work
• Practice research
• Demonstrate commitment to CPD

Other
Essential

• Flexibility in working hours.
• Car driver / willingness to live on-site
• Able to work extended hours.

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer Contact Details
Name: Mark Clymer
Email: mark.clymer@nhs.net
Phone: 01623622515

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