Rotational Pharmacist (Band 6 and Band 7)

Job summary

Are you an early-career pharmacist looking to develop your knowledge, skills and experience for a fast-track, hands-on journey that blends clinical excellence with real-world impact? We are looking for pharmacists with a passion for learning and patient care with a drive to join our team and contribute to our leading clinical services.

Join our core rotational programme provided by the one of the largest and most dynamic pharmacy departments, working across our diverse sites where from your first day, you will be immersed in a high-impact environment, supported by our expert teams and developed with the confidence, competence and experience in your journey to step in to more specialist and senior roles.

We offer a diverse range of rotations across inpatient and outpatient settings that support both patient care and service development. There will be structured opportunities for both personal and professional development with the roles designed to enable pharmacists to use their growing expertise to deliver excellent patient care working in close collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.

To accommodate flexible working and diverse career paths, we are offering roles on a 6-month fixed term contract. We welcome applications from pharmacists who are newly qualified as well as those with prior experience at band 6 or band 7 level looking for the next stage in their development or simply looking for a new challenge.

Main duties of the job

See attached Job Description and Personal Specification document as part of the application page which details and provides more information with regards to this role.

About us

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best-known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research, and innovation. We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching, and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, and neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs. We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.

Job responsibilities

See attached Job Description and Personal Specification document as part of the application page which details and provides more information with regards to this role.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• MPharm degree (or equivalent to allow GPhC registration)
• Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Desirable

• Membership of relevant professional groups (i.e. UKCPA, RCPharm, BOPA, NPPG)
• Successful completion of a Post-Graduate Certificate in General Pharmacy Practice (or equivalent and comparable experience)
• Non-medical prescribing qualification

Knowledge

Essential

• Experience in providing clinical pharmacy services
• Experience of working in a Patient Services / Dispensary environment
• Experience of providing out-of-hours pharmacy services
• Experience of supervision and management of the training of students, trainee and junior pharmacists and/or pharmacy technicians
• Involvement with clinical audit, quality improvement, research and/or service development projects

Desirable

• Experience in hospital pharmacy practice
• Experience of providing clinical pharmacy services in ward-based settings for medical and surgical patients
• Experience of working within Medicines Information or Technical Services
• Completion of recognised Educational or Practice Supervisor training
• Experience in the design and/or delivery of local education and training across the MDT
• Experience in leading clinical audit, quality improvement, research and/or service development

Skills

Essential

• Demonstrable skills and ability to safely clinically screen a prescription request for the supply of a medicine
• Ability to communicate pharmaceutical information effectively to members of the MDT
• Able to work independently, when required
• Able to manage their own workload effectively and escalate for support, when required
• Excellent attention to detail
• Able to work in, sometimes, emotionally challenging and evocative situations
• Able to work under pressure

Desirable

• Demonstrable skills and ability to safely clinically screen a range of prescriptions including complex and high risk medicines
• Able to effectively solve own and others clinical and operational issues to best support patient care
• Experience of working with Electronic Patient Records and digital prescribing systems

Personal Qualities

Essential

• Self-Motivated
• Appreciate the importance of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Able to inspire and motivate others
• Able to support the department's out of hours and emergency services
• Recognises limitations
• Committed to continuous professional development
• Take responsibility for own action