Specialist Clinical Rotational Pharmacist
Slough, England, United Kingdom Full-time Posted 4 days ago
Job Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated, and experienced pharmacist to be part of a dynamic team working at Wexham Park Hospital.
This post is suitable for Primary Care Pharmacists who would like to embark on hospital pharmacy journey, as well as junior hospital pharmacists who would like to expand their experience and take a specialist rotational role within hospital.
The post holder will be rotating in different specialities including Paediatrics, Haematology/Oncology, Medicine & Surgery, and ITU.
Our Band 7 rotations are geared towards preparing staff for the next step in their career.
You will work closely with the Lead Pharmacists, clinicians, nursing staff and other senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to patients within the relevant directorates.
Main duties of the job
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme.
We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Essential criteria
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
Apply online now
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated, and experienced pharmacist to be part of a dynamic team working at Wexham Park Hospital.
This post is suitable for Primary Care Pharmacists who would like to embark on hospital pharmacy journey, as well as junior hospital pharmacists who would like to expand their experience and take a specialist rotational role within hospital.
The post holder will be rotating in different specialities including Paediatrics, Haematology/Oncology, Medicine & Surgery, and ITU.
Our Band 7 rotations are geared towards preparing staff for the next step in their career.
You will work closely with the Lead Pharmacists, clinicians, nursing staff and other senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to patients within the relevant directorates.
Main duties of the job
- To partake in the Band 7 Rotations through different clinical specialties- including (but not limited to) Paediatrics, Medicine & Surgery.
- To develop the clinical pharmacy service to patients within the specialist area.
- The provision of a clinical pharmacy service to patients within the specialist areas.
- To act as a role model in the field of clinical pharmacy practice and provide a consistently high standard of clinical service in line with the pharmacy objectives.
- The recruitment, management and development of staff under the postholder.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme.
We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
Frimley Health Trust benefits on Vimeo
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
- Provide a high-quality clinical pharmacy service across specialist and general ward areas in line with Trust policies, current legislation, and departmental standards.
- Work closely with Lead Pharmacists, clinicians, nurses, and senior managers to develop, implement, and evaluate pharmaceutical services and protocols to ensure safe, effective, and cost-effective use of medicines.
- Assess pharmaceutical care needs, undertake medicines reconciliation and optimisation, develop and implement care plans, review and adjust drug therapy, counsel patients, support discharge planning, and provide medicines advice to healthcare staff.
- Attend ward rounds as required.
- Act as an independent prescriber in accordance with Trust guidelines.
- Contribute to clinical governance, audit, research, service development, formulary management, and prescribing committees.
- Support cost-effective prescribing and drug evaluations.
- Provide education and training to multidisciplinary staff and students, supervise and develop junior pharmacy staff, and contribute to CPD.
- Assist with dispensary services when required and participate in on-call, weekend, and bank holiday rotas.
- Provide a high-quality clinical pharmacy service across specialist and general ward areas in line with Trust policies, current legislation, and departmental standards.
- Work closely with Lead Pharmacists, clinicians, nurses, and senior managers to develop, implement, and evaluate pharmaceutical services and protocols to ensure safe, effective, and cost-effective use of medicines.
- Assess pharmaceutical care needs, undertake medicines reconciliation and optimisation, develop and implement care plans, review and adjust drug therapy, counsel patients, support discharge planning, and provide medicines advice to healthcare staff. Attend ward rounds as required.
- Act as an independent prescriber in accordance with Trust guidelines. Contribute to clinical governance, audit, research, service development, formulary management, and prescribing committees.
- Support cost-effective prescribing and drug evaluations.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Pharmacy degree (Master level 4 years)
- Registered with GPhC
- Within 12 months of completion of Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy / Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
- Intention to become an Independent Prescriber.
- Evidence of up-to-date CPD in clinical pharmacy.
- Independent pharmacist Prescriber
- Completion of Diploma in Clinical Practice OR equivalent
- Member of UKCPA.
- Member of Royal. Pharmaceutical Society.
Essential criteria
- Recent Hospital Clinical Pharmacy experience.
- Post-registration provision of clinical pharmacy service to a broad range of clinical specialties.
- Experience of providing a medicines information service.
- Practical experience of audit Protocol development.
- Practical experience of audit
Essential criteria
- Good verbal and written communication skills, including listening skills.
- Presentation skills.
- Computer literate.
- Good time management.
- Knowledge of service development.
Essential criteria
- Able to work at weekends and to participate in Bank Holiday working.
- This post may require you to work cross-site.
- You must be able to travel between our sites.
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
Apply online now
