NHS Rotational Pharmacist
Duration: Temporary, 5 months
Location: Shrewsbury
Hours: Monday – Friday, 9am – 5pm
Rate: NHS Band 7, £21 - £26 per hour
The role for the Rotational Pharmacist will be working alongside the Pharmacy Team Leader – Clinical Services & Governance. For this position, they are looking at an immediate start. The initial duration expectation is 5 months.
Outline duties below:
- Responsible for carrying out duties in Clinical Pharmacy Services at ward and department level. Working closely with Consultants and other healthcare professionals to ensure safe, effective and efficient use of medicines
- Providing technical support in the preparation of a broad range of aseptically prepared medicinal products (PN, Cytotoxic Chemotherapy, Radiopharmaceuticals etc)
- Visiting agreed ward daily and other wards on request ensuring standards specified in competency framework handbook are adhered to, prioritising according to time allocated
- Obtaining an accreting drug history for specific patients on admission
- Identifying and resolving omissions and inaccuracies in prescribing for medicines prescribed to ensure complete medicine reconciliation for each patient on admission
- Assessing whether medication brought into hospital by the patient is fit for use and remove (with the patient’s permission) any unwanted or unusable medicines
- Providing a clinical pharmacy service to designated wards recording Interventions made
- Counselling patients or carers about medicines ensuring understanding. Overcoming problems of communication and other difficulties for patients (and their carers/relatives) with succinct advice and physical and written aids to concordance. This may involve providing advice and counselling to patients and carers who may be upset, anxious or angry on the appropriate use of their medicines
- Ensuring primary/secondary care interface communication, especially on discharge from hospital
- Ensuring specified ward has a stock list, the range and level of which should match usage and be agreed with the ward manager
- Reviewing stock range and level according to usage analysis and the needs of the user at least every 12 months
- Carrying out annual storage audits and three-monthly controlled drug audits promptly and report any problems to Chief Pharmacist, as appropriate
- To function as an Independent Prescriber (IP) to optimise medicine regimes for the surgical patient, ensuring appropriate medicines are prescribed or de-prescribed after assessment. This will be line with GPhC registration requirements and be formally agreed with all appropriate and relevant clinicians
To discuss this role in more detail and to secure this opportunity, please contact Leah Waldron, Leo Steeden or Thomas Brown on 0121 616 0660 or alternatively email lwaldron@venngroup.com
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