Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

Position Details

Employer:

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
Employer Type: NHS
Site:
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust
Town:
Northampton
Salary: £46,148 – £52,809 per annum (pro rata)
Closing date: 28/01/2025
Band: 7

We are very excited to be able to offer a new rotational programme at a more senior level to you and our pharmacists s will enable you to continue your development and increase your skills and knowledge across a wider portfolio before deciding to specialise. You will be working within the friendly and supportive Pharmacy Clinical Team to provide a comprehensive medicines optimisation and management service within a designated clinical area for a 6‑month rotation.

• Medicine Admissions, ED, Renal, Cardiology, Respiratory, Gastroenterology
• Surgery General (inc. Vascular), Gynae, H&N, T&O, Critical Care, POAC
• ePMA/Digital with a clinical speciality
• Paediatrics
• Medicines Information / Safety / Training / High Cost Medicines
• Other clinical areas where service opportunities allow

• Work within a clinical specialty for 6 months at a time, building relations with other staff to ensure safe and effective medicines optimisation for patients.
• Actively participate in ward rounds and fully integrate within the specialty multidisciplinary team.
• If available within the specialty, work in pharmacy‑led clinics.
• Undertake projects or developments within the specialty – e.g. quality improvements, audits, research.
• Contribute to guideline, PGD developments within the specialty.
• Carry out root‑cause analysis of medicine‑related incidents, attend or present at governance meetings.
• Train pharmacy staff and the wider multidisciplinary team.
• Provide information, advice and guidance on the safe, effective and economical use of medicines and challenge poor practice.
• Optimize medicines management by reconciling drug histories, performing structured medication reviews and using patients’ own medicines.
• Detect, record and report adverse drug reactions to the MHRA and via Datix as per Trust policy.
• Record clinical activity and monitor the outcomes of your advice.
• Monitor interventions in treatment to identify training and information needs.
• Fulfill the requirements of the Code of Ethics and Professional Standards for Hospital Service Optimising Patient outcomes from medicine.
• Participate in CQUINs and QIPPs at NGH.
• Implement county‑wide and local prescribing strategies within the Trust and your practices.
• Support the expansion of EPMA within the specialty.
• Undertake validation duties in the dispensary and supervise, check and, if necessary, undertake the supply of medicines in NGH.
• Optimize medicines through prescribing role operating within areas of competence (where appropriately qualified and authorised via the Trust NMP register).

• Excellent communication
• Ability to prioritise
• Ability to work under pressure
• Computer skills, e.g., databases
• Presentation skills
• Ability to work alone and as a team member
• Time management

• Post‑registration clinical pharmacy experience within hospital, PCN, community including at least four of the following specialties:
  Medicine (or medical specialties), Care of the Older Person, Surgery (or surgical specialties), Paediatrics, Medicines Information, Oncology/Haematology, Aseptics (typically achieved over a 2–3 year period).
• Good clinical knowledge
• Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
• Teaching, supervising and training staff
• Undertaken service improvement / quality improvement projects / audits / research projects
• Appraisals/personal development
• NHS arrangements, e.g., CCGs, NICE, CQC, Clinical Governance, PCNs, NHS Digital

• Staff supervision
• Attendance on consultant‑led ward rounds
• Experience of prescribing within a specialty to optimise medicines for specific patient groups
• Experience of electronic prescribing and administration systems and electronic patient records

• BPharm or MPharm degree
• Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Achieved (or working towards) postgraduate…