Sanctuary Personnel, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency with a TrustPilot score of 4.8/5 and over 500+ reviews is currently looking for an experienced and dedicated Pharmacist to take on a new locum role.
Pharmacist Pay Rate: £31 per hour (assignment rate)
Location: Birmingham
Contract Type: Locum – 3 Months
Benefits of working with us:
- Fully online and paperless registration service
- Free DBS and compliance service including paid for mandatory e-learning and practical training modules (if applicable)
- Exclusive access to roles that aren’t available with other agencies; NHSBT, The Home Office and Vaccination Centres (private and public) are just some of the projects we’ve recently recruited to.
- £250 refer a friend bonus once referral has worked 100 hours (uncapped – T&Cs apply)
- Registration body costs covered based on length of service (T&Cs apply)
- Find your own job bonus - Receive £250 for bringing your own position to us
- Clinical governance and revalidation support from an in-house qualified health professional with over 15 years’ experience
- Your own dedicated consultant with extensive experience within the healthcare sector
- Daily payroll and in-house payroll system
Main Duties:
- Dispensing and checking of prescriptions, including competent in the use of the computer system.
- To clarify poorly written prescription charts, discharge letters and other forms for prescribing.
- To query irrational or inappropriate prescribing, including unlicensed, off-licence and non-formulary prescribing.
- To support the Head Pharmacist in maintaining an efficient and safely operating pharmacy service and drug supply service to the wards.
- To help maintain and develop a clinically orientated pharmacy service to ward and outside units.
- To ensure the efficient supply of pharmaceuticals is maintained to the wards.
- To supervise pharmacy technicians as appropriate.
- Provision of drug information as necessary utilising the Drug Information Departments at local NHS Trusts, as appropriate.
- Interpretation of therapeutic drug level results and provision of professional advice where needed.
- To maintain and develop the 28 day one stop dispensing scheme on the wards as appropriate.
- To help develop the self medication scheme in operation at both hospitals under the supervision of the pharmacist in charge.
- To help develop discharge counselling at both hospitals under the supervision of the pharmacist in charge.
- To promote the Hospital Drug formulary for both educational and drug economy purposes.
- To help develop a pharmaceutical educational programme for nurses on each site under the supervision of the pharmacist in charge.
- To help develop the medicine reconciliation service on the wards.
- To advise on the development of guidelines and Standard Operating Procedures for pharmacy and wards.
- To cover leave of the pharmacist in charge at each hospital.
- To promptly act on drug alerts and drug recalls.
- To attend meetings in the absence of the pharmacist in charge as appropriate.
- To support, undertake and evaluate delivery of mandatory medicines management training sessions to support the training of clinical staff.
- Any other duties as required to maintain and develop the pharmacy service.
- To comply with the requirements of National Statue and local policy, including the Medicines Act, Misuse of Drugs Act, Health and Safety at Work Act etc, so that work done in the department is within recommended and legal parameters.
- To attend meetings in the Division, Speciality and Trust as necessary in order to fulfil job functions.
- Work as part of the Pharmacy team to cover for emergency duties and unplanned absence, and where agreed provide on-call duty within the on-call rota.
- Undertake any other duties commensurate with this grade of post in agreement with the relevant line manager.
Requirements of the Pharmacist:
- GPHC Registration
- Previous experience within a UK based NHS Pharmacy setting
- NVQ or equivalent – Pharmacist qualification
Contact:
This Pharmacist job is advertised by Billy Clark; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.
We welcome applications from the following job titles: Pharmacist, Clinical Pharmacist, Senior Pharmacist, Pharmacy Managers etc. NHS experience is desirable for most of our clients.
Regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet these requirements for this Pharmacist role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements.
Reasonable Adjustments:
If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.
