Clinical Pharmacist

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

The salary for this permanent Clinical Pharmacist job is £60,931 – £68,874 per annum.

Duties:

• Provide specialist Clinical Pharmacy Services to help ensure the safe, clinically effective and economical use of medicines
• Support the lead pharmacists in the delivery of a high quality, patient-focused medicines optimisation service for patients in line with nationally approved standards, within a designated area
• Monitor and review therapeutic programmes for patients and provide specialist information, advice and guidance on the safe, effective and economical use of medicines, so that patients receive the best pharmaceutical treatment with minimal adverse effects
• Undertake medication reviews, including medicines reconciliation for newly admitted patients and pharmaceutical care planning prior to discharge, to minimise risks with medication associated with transfers between care settings
• Liaise with medical and nursing staff over any clinical issues, to ensure that each patient is receiving the most appropriate medication
• Work as a member of the multi-professional health and care teams including attendance at ward rounds, providing highly complex clinical pharmacy advice and expertise to peers, patients and management to ensure that best practice is promoted and delivered to patients
• Advise on complex prescribing issues to medical and nursing staff in order to ensure that legislative requirements and best practice standards are met in the delivery of pharmacy services
• Support the Clinical Pharmacy Manager in the development of local clinical pharmacy guidelines and policies
• Implement national and local policies and guidelines related to medicines
• Provide specialist information to support formulary decisions by the Drugs and Therapeutics Committee
• Provide planned sessional clinical and professional supervision with the pharmacy dispensary

Requirements of the Clinical Pharmacist:

• Vocational (four year) master’s degree in pharmacy
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (obtained by completing one-year postgraduate pre- registration training with final examination)
• Post-graduate certificate in Clinical Pharmacy (completion of first year of post-graduate Diploma/MSc) or completion of RPS postgraduate Foundation Programme
• Post-graduate MSc or Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
• Specialist knowledge of therapeutics of common disease states and frequently used therapeutic regimes
• Well-developed knowledge of pharmaceutical technical and clinical procedures acquired through training and experience
• Experience in hospital practice, which should include significant experience in clinical pharmacy
• Experience of working effectively within a multidisciplinary team

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.