Senior Rotational Pharmacist

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our pharmacy team at BHFT. You will join our cohort of Band 7 pharmacists who will be responsible for completing 9 month rotations across both our Luton and Bedford sites in the following areas: Paediatrics, Maternity, Critical Care introduction, Aseptics, Acute admissions, Medicines Information, Cardiology, Respiratory, Complex and Elderly care and Surgery.

We are looking for dynamic, organised and motivated pharmacists with excellent communication skills and a commitment to patient care. Your focus will be to deliver a patient-centred ward pharmacy service and forge strong links with other healthcare professionals. This will be achieved through attending consultant led ward rounds and MDT board rounds. You will also have the opportunity to work closely with Lead Pharmacists and given small to medium term directorate projects to further assist your development.

This opportunity presents the successful candidates with an excellent chance to build on their clinical knowledge across a broad range of specialties. We are fully committed to your training and development to enable you to maximise your potential contribution to patient care and would actively support the non-medical prescribing qualification, subject to funding.

Our Pharmacy Department is a vibrant and forward thinking department, with a strong emphasis on teamwork. To see our staff opinions please follow the link in the attached brochure

Main duties of the job

To undertake clinical supervision and line management of Foundation Pharmacists, medicines management pharmacy technicians and pre-registration pharmacists

To ensure the safe, clinical/ cost effective use of medicines and staff resources across the Division. To be responsible for delivering the defined service Key Performance Indicators

To undertake 9-monthly rotations throughout the following areas: Paediatrics, Maternity, Critical Care, Medicines Information, Acute Medicine, Cardiology, Complex care, Surgery and Aseptics, and support to Antimicrobials and Education and Training teams.

To actively participate in Consultant ward rounds, taking the lead for inpatient prescribing and real-time prescribing of discharge medicines on ePMA during the rounds.

To practice as an Independent Pharmacist Prescriber with both a specialist and generalist scope of practice (or willing to undertake Independent Pharmacist Prescribing status)

To deliver and develop clinical services to inpatients of the Division (primarily in the speciality) through involvement in multi-disciplinary teams, development of protocols and discharge planning ensuring the patient is at the centre of your practice.

To provide a highly developed generalist pharmacy and medicines optimisation expertise to the relevant Divisions, ensuring that medication is optimised for the individual patient and that the patient is fully aware of the indication and side effects of their medicines

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology.