This maternity leave cover post for a Pharmacist sits in the outpatient pharmacy run by SWFT Clinical Services Ltd, a subsidiary of South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust, for nine months. The work centres on clinical checking of outpatient and discharge prescriptions, medicines advice to patients and teams, and support for oral chemotherapy screening. The post co-ordinates a team across several sites, needs a car, and includes acting as Responsible Pharmacist. Sponsorship is not available.
What the job involves
- Clinically check and accuracy-check outpatient and discharge (TTO) prescriptions so patients leave hospital on time
- Co-ordinate and develop the pharmacy team delivering the outpatient pharmacy service
- Act as Responsible Pharmacist, assuring service quality and patient safety
- Give medicines advice and information to patients and clinical teams
- Support accuracy checks on prescriptions for oral SACT and supportive medicines
- Monitor team performance against KPIs, including complaints, formulary compliance, errors and incidents
- Recruit, train, accredit and develop staff, including performance reviews on delegation from the Pharmacy Manager
- Contribute to the business plan, sales and profitability
- Maintain relationships with commissioners, customers and medical staff, and liaise with Trust staff
- Submit and act on DATIX/Inphase incidents, and act on MHRA recalls
- Support the counter assistant with over-the-counter sales advice
- Open and close the pharmacy as a key holder when required
What’s required
Qualifications
- Degree in Pharmacy (Masters or equivalent)
Registration & licences
- Current UK registration as a pharmacist
Experience
- Hospital outpatient pharmacy or UK community pharmacy experience, including some NHS enhanced or advanced services
- NHS hospital prescribing awareness, such as formularies, which may come from dispensing outpatient scripts or monitored dose discharge medicines in the community
Skills & knowledge
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Influencing and negotiation skills and experience
- Ability to prioritise and make good use of time
- Decisive, able to make quick decisions with limited information
- Coordinating a team
- Ability to deal with queries and complaints
Other
- Ability to resume the role of responsible pharmacist
- Able to work under pressure in a busy environment
- Ability to adapt to change in work or workload
- Customer focus
- Professional credibility
- Ability to work across sites, with own car
Nice to have
- Clinical diploma
- Leadership courses
- Knowledge of Wellsky/CMM
- Knowledge of an EPR system
What’s offered
- Annual discretionary bonus, subject to company and individual performance
- Automatic enrolment in the company pension scheme, with the company contributing 5%
- Car lease scheme, available after the six-month probationary period
- Home & Electronics scheme
- Discounted leisure and travelRetail discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme
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