Foundation Pharmacist

If you would like to discuss this post further please contact Louise Benton - Pharmacy Lead for Education and Training

The Pharmacy team at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals are a friendly, innovative, and successful team. The Foundation Pharmacist programme will support you in your initial journey in hospital pharmacy. The programme includes clinical rotations through various specialties at each of our hospital sites including medicine for older people, general surgery, paediatrics, cardiology, endocrinology, maternity and acute admissions. You will also gain experience working in our dispensaries, technical services and medicines information departments.

Training and support will be led by our Advanced Clinical Pharmacist for Education & Training with additional support provided by our senior and specialist pharmacists and our team of experienced technicians and support workers, which will enable the successful candidate to gain a thorough knowledge base and experience of clinical pharmacy. You will be supported through a structured induction process as well as provided with a wide range of training and development opportunities to build your foundation portfolio, including support to complete a Post Graduate Diploma in clinical pharmacy and the opportunity to undertake a non-medical prescribing qualification.

The successful candidate will contribute to our emergency out of hours service, late night and weekend service on a rotational basis.

• Carry out duties in the dispensary to help ensure that medicines are provided in a timely fashion for in-patients. These duties will include:
• Act as the Responsible Pharmacist in line with local procedure.
• Clinical and accuracy checking of prescriptions.
• Dispensing medicines.
• Dealing with medicines for clinical trial patients.
• Supervising technicians and trainee pharmacists.
• Educating patients and/or their representatives about their medicines.
• Liaising with various members of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Managing and prioritising own workload to tight deadlines and ensuring urgent work is done.
• Carry out duties in the Technical Services section, which will include:
• Clinical and accuracy checking of prescriptions.
• Dispensing and supervision of others in dispensing (by manipulation and reconstitution) injectable medicines (and ensuring safe and appropriate disposal of sharps and other waste).
• Preparation and dispensing of special formulations for external or internal use.
• Liaising with medical and nursing staff with a view to providing advice about intravenous nutrition (TPN) prescriptions.
• Handling and dispensing medicines used in the treatment of cancer (cytotoxic medicines).
• Carry out duties in Medicines Information in order to provide help and advice to medical and nursing colleagues and where appropriate patients about the use of medicines.
• These duties will include:
• Development and usage of sound telephone techniques
• Researching the literature through manual and computer based sources
• Providing written and/or verbal responses to enquirers who may include hospital and external staff, eg GPs, Community nurses etc
• Keeping appropriate records relating to these queries
• Reporting suspected adverse reactions to drugs to the Committee on Safety of Medicines via the national reporting scheme
• Work at ward level, across the trust, to provide pharmaceutical care to patients.

• Masters Degree in pharmacy obtained through four year undergraduate training.
• Membership of the General Pharmaceutical Council achieved by 12 months pre‑registration training/experience and examination.
• Experience in pharmacy practice obtained through one year’s pre‑registration training and examination.

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