Pharmacist

The Pharmacist is responsible for delivering safe, effective, and patient-centred pharmaceutical services while ensuring compliance with professional, legal, and regulatory standards. The role involves the clinical and accuracy checking of outpatient and discharge prescriptions, providing expert medicines advice to patients and healthcare teams, supporting oral chemotherapy prescribing processes, and promoting safe medicines management. The post holder contributes to the day-to-day operation of the pharmacy, supports staff development and team performance, monitors quality and governance standards, and acts as the Responsible Pharmacist when required.

Working collaboratively with clinical teams and stakeholders, the Pharmacist helps ensure excellent customer service, timely patient care, service improvement, and the achievement of both operational and business objectives.

Main duties of the job:

• Fulfils the professional duties of a registered Pharmacist to statutory standards and codes of practice in accordance with best practice and acts effectively and ethically to meet needs.
• Co-ordinates and contributes to the day-to-day operations of the Pharmacy, which will include clinical and accuracy checks of hospital prescriptions and TTO prescriptions to ensure patients are discharged in a timely manner.
• Provide advice and information on medicines management and stock supplies to patients and the wider clinical teams to have a greater impact on safe and accurate prescribing and to ensure better compliance with patients.
• Support the chemotherapy screening pharmacists in performing accuracy checks on prescriptions for oral SACT and supportive medicines.
• Support the counter assistant in the sale of over-the-counter sales of medicines with appropriate advice where needed.
• Shares in developing the business plan, drives performance against it, and contributes to the delivery of elements of the business plan (professional best practice, sales and profitability) on time and in full.
• Recruits, trains, accredits and develops staff to meet business and professional needs, builds team spirit and motivation, leads by example, and on delegation from the Pharmacy Manager, monitors performance, including performance reviews.
• In the statutory role of Responsible Pharmacist, assures service quality, and patient safety, through the application of policies and procedures, effective systems and competent personnel.
• Helps the Superintendent Pharmacy Manager to respond promptly to new guidelines or professional standards.
• Aware of MHRA recalls and acts accordingly.
• Maintains a professional and clinical network for the sharing of ideas, advice, information and peer support.
• Liaises with Trust staff to support our common goal.
• Monitors team performance against a range of key performance indicators, including customer satisfaction (and the prompt and effective response to complaints), value for money, formulary compliance, response to incidents, errors and product alerts.
• Contributes to periodic reviews with the Trust Head of Pharmacy as the commissioner of services and with the Managing Director.
• Submits and acts upon DATIX/Inphase incidents.
• Maintains excellent working relationships and good communications with commissioners, customers and medical staff.
• Ensures confidentiality and clinical information, which may relate to customers, staff, Company policies, prices, business information, and takes account of requirements of the Data Protection Act and Freedom of Information legislation.
• Ensures that paperwork is completed accurately and on time, provides information and reports in a concise manner, communicates issues and proposed actions as appropriate, and attends meetings as required by the Company.
• Manages their own personal development, including fulfilment of the annual CPD requirement of a pharmacist, and any future requirement for period revalidation for professional practice.
• Adhere to H&S, equal opportunities and all other relevant legislations.
• Communicates to Pharmacy Manager to ensure policies and SOPS are updated and acted upon.
• Completes SWFT oral chemotherapy training to enable the clinical screening of prescriptions.
• May be required to open and close the pharmacy when necessary, so will be required to be a key holder.
• Any other relevant duties at the request of the line manager.

Person specification:

• Qualifications: Degree in Pharmacy (Masters or equivalent), Current UK registration as Pharmacist, Clinical Diploma, Leadership courses.
• Experience: Hospital Outpatient Pharmacy experience, Community Pharmacy experience in the UK with some NHS enhanced or advanced services, NHS Hospital prescribing awareness.
• Skills: Knowledge of Wellsky/ CMM, Knowledge of EPR system.
• Personal Qualities: Ability to resume the role of responsible pharmacist, Able to work under pressure in a busy environment, Decisive, Customer focus, Professional credibility, Influencing and negotiation skills, Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Other: Ability to work across sites - must have own car.