Specialist Clinical Pharmacist Medicines Information (Fixed Term)

We are looking for highly motivated clinical pharmacists to join our medicines information team, who is keen to learn and able to work in a team and independently. You will need to have previous NHS hospital pharmacy experience and have rotated through different specialities including medicines, surgery, and medicines information.

The post-holder will work closely with colleagues in the medicines information team as well as being integrated into the clinical ward pharmacy service. Outside of medicines information, you will be rotating through different clinical specialities to further develop your clinical skills and will work closely with the multidisciplinary team.

This is a great opportunity for someone who is interested in developing their clinical knowledge and reasoning, you will be exposed to clinical enquiries with varying complexities originated from healthcare professionals and patients.

Main duties of the job

You will be part of the medicines information team providing an enquiry-answering service to clinicians and patients in the region. The post is based at Frimley Park Hospital but may entail occasional travel to other sites within the Trust or to other organisations we currently deliver services to.

The award-winning medicines information department at Frimley Park Hospital provides service to several acute, mental health and community trusts across the region with plans to extend services further to support the Frimley Health and Care Integrated Care System. You will work alongside other Specialist Medicines Information Pharmacists and be supported by the Lead Medicines Information Pharmacist. You will also be involved in training and supervising junior staffs from across the region for their medicines information rotation.

Outside of medicines information, you will spend time working as a ward pharmacist rotating through different clinical specialties such as endocrinology, vascular and care of elderly. You will also support the technician-led dispensary occasionally.

You will be enrolled to the accredited National Medicines Information Training Course hosted by the UKMI and will be given opportunities to attend UKMI conferences. Continuing professional development is encouraged in the department, where funding for courses such as Independent Prescribing and Designated Supervisors for Trainee Pharmacists is available.

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties