Band 7 Senior Pharmacist in Essex

We have an exciting opportunity for a Senior Pharmacist at The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT). The Trust provides a comprehensive range of general acute, outpatient, and diagnostic services across its hospital sites. In this role, you will participate in the professional pharmaceutical provision of pharmacy services to the Trust and its external partners, ensuring safe, effective, and evidence-based patient care. You will provide clinical pharmacy cover, including near-to-patient services, and support the work of designated directorate pharmacists and senior staff, deputising for them when required. The role also involves contributing to specified projects and group initiatives to support service development, as well as participating in the pharmacy emergency duty rota as part of the department's commitment to high-quality, continuous patient care.

As a Senior Pharmacist you will work as part of the wider pharmacy team to deliver an effective and professional pharmacy service across a range of key areas, including the pharmacy dispensary, clinical pharmacy services, clinical pharmacy training, pharmacy technical services, and medicines information. The role requires adherence to all Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) relating to clinical activities, ensuring the highest standards of prescription monitoring, drug chart documentation, and antibiotic stewardship. Additionally, you will work closely with near-to-patient teams, undertaking tasks such as drug history taking, supporting patients' own drug use, self-medication programmes, one-stop dispensing, transcribing To Take Away (TTA) medications, and providing discharge counselling to ensure continuity of care and safe, effective use of medicines.

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To act as a member of the directorate team and deputise as the directorate pharmacist when required, supporting the management of high-cost drugs, chemotherapy prescriptions, and clinical prescribing guidelines.

• To provide specialist clinical pharmacy services, including Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN), clinical screening of prescriptions for interferons, HIV, anti-TNF drugs, and other high-cost or complex therapies.
• To manage the safe and effective dispensing of medicines, including Controlled Drugs, clinical trials, extemporaneously prepared products, and intravenous preparations, while supervising and supporting pharmacy staff.
• To provide patient-centred services, including counselling, medicines information, clinical input into care pathways, and participation in near-patient schemes, ensuring safe and economic use of medicines.
• To liaise with CCGs and NHS England on drug funding and policy matters, and to provide education and guidance to healthcare staff and patients on the safe and effective use of medicines.
• To communicate effectively with healthcare professionals, patients, and pharmacy teams, attend meetings and ward rounds, and participate in training, project work, audits, and continuous professional development activities.

Pharmacy degree with current GPhC registration and relevant clinical or general pharmacy practice qualifications. Experience in clinical pharmacy services at ward level, hospital dispensing services, and project work, including risk management. Experience of using patient information systems, electronic prescribing, and pharmacy dispensing/stock holding systems.

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.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Location: Princess Alexandra Hospital, Hamstel Road, Harlow, Essex, CM20 1QX