Clinical Pharmacist

Global Healthcare Jobs, a dedicated and award-winning recruitment agency looking for an experienced and dedicated Clinical Pharmacist to work in Kirkwall, Orkney on a full-time basis.

The salary for this permanent Clinical Pharmacist job is £42,186 – £49,160 per annum.

Main Duties:

• Collaboration with the pharmacy technical team to undertake medicines reconciliation on admission and assessment of patients own medication for use during their inpatient stay.
• Review of medication on admission to ensure medicines are safely and appropriately prescribed and patients own medicines or alternative supplies, are available for administration.
• This may involve making judgements on the suitability of patient’s chronic medication regimen in the hospital situation when the patient’s condition may have changed
• Working within the Medicines Management Policy and procedures to ensure safe and cost- effective medicines use.
• Undertaking regular reviews of inpatient prescription charts to ensure any amendments or additions to medicine regimes are safe, effective, and appropriate.
• Discussing prescribed medicines with medical staff within primary and secondary care, to ensure the patient receives safe, effective, and appropriate treatment during their inpatient stay and on discharge
• Monitoring patient’s biochemistry and haematology results; assessing medication throughout the patient’s stay in hospital to ensure doses are appropriate and adverse effects are minimised
• Monitoring the administration of injectable medication as bolus injections, by infusion pumps, syringe drivers and PCAs. Ensuring doses and administration routes are safe and appropriate.
• Planning and implementing discharge procedures to ensure the safe and effective reconciliation of medicines for continuation of therapy and review as necessary after discharge.
• Provide counselling and advice on medicines use to patients and carers (verbal and written) to assist patients to improve compliance and use their medication to maximum benefit. 
• Liaise with multi-disciplinary teams, including community and primary care pharmacy services, to ensure effective continuity of pharmaceutical care across all healthcare sectors on admission and discharge.
• Advise on and facilitate the provision of Total Parenteral Nutrition, with support from senior pharmacists and dieticians.

Requirements of the Clinical Pharmacist:

• An undergraduate Master’s Degree (or equivalent) in Pharmacy.
• Pre-registration training and successful examination 1 year
• Pharmacist registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council (Practising)
• 1 or more years post registration experience in hospital or community pharmacy
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of pharmacy legislation
  
• Good IT skills

Contact:

This Clinical Pharmacist job is advertised by Craig Osborne; if you are interested in this position please click above to apply now.

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, regretfully we are only able to respond to candidates who meet our clients’ requirements.

As a pioneer of diverse recruitment, Global Healthcare Jobs is proud to encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds as our pool of candidates is very much reflective of the clients that candidates will support within their role. This very much played a significant in previously winning ‘Best Candidate Care’ at the Recruiter Awards as well being a two-time finalist for the same award. Global Healthcare Jobstakes great pride in building candidate and client relationships that promote Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI). With recruitment consultants and all other employees undertaking annual online training on EDI and many other compliance training courses, Global Healthcare Jobsis best placed to undertake a fair and thorough selection process.

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.