Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

*Working with a supportive, friendly team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians based in a small community hospital

*Monday to Friday with flexible working options

*Full funding available for clinical diploma and other courses

*Beautiful location near to the New Forest and Solent waterside

*NHS terms and conditions

If this sounds attractive, then we are interested in hearing from you.

Come and join our well-established, supportive, and friendly team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians who provide support to mental health units, community hospitals and community teams across Hampshire. We also have a small dispensary at Lymington New Forest Hospital. Our medicines management team members are passionate and dedicated to providing a service that puts medicines safety at the heart of patient care.

Hampshire has the beautiful Solent, countryside, market towns and heritage you would expect from a quintessentially English county. Those deciding to settle here enjoy an exceptional quality of life, with higher than national average temperatures and sunshine, and lower than average rainfall in which to enjoy it. There are good transport links - trains to London and the north, airports at Bournemouth and Southampton and ferries to the Isle of Wight and to the continent from Portsmouth.

Main duties of the job

The post is based at and will provide clinical pharmacist support to two community rehabilitation wards at Petersfield Community Hospital. You will join the Portsmouth and SE Hants Medicines Management team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians and have the opportunity to work in mental health on the Older Persons Mental Health wards at Gosport War Memorial Hospital and Elmleigh Adult Mental Health Unit in Havant. Each service provides exciting development opportunities. This role is an integral part of the team, and you will be able to gain experience in other specialities such as Learning Disabilities, CAMHS, adult, LD and CAMHS forensic services and End of Life.

This post is suitable for newly qualified pharmacists and for those with a background in all spheres of pharmacy. Previous knowledge and experience in secondary care would be a distinct advantage, but are not essential, as we provide comprehensive and fully funded training. This includes the clinical pharmacy diploma, independent pharmacist prescribing, psychiatric certificate and diploma and College of Mental Health Pharmacy courses Psych 1 and 2. A Pharmacist with less experience will be able to start as a band 6 and follow our career progression pathway leading to a band 7.

Your work will focus on enhancing patient safety in medicines practice including medicines reconciliation, providing clinical professional advice to prescribers as part of a multi-disciplinary team, discharge planning, clinical audit, and teaching.

About us

Are you committed to providing remarkable care and service?

Are you passionate about helping people and want to make a difference every day?

We want to meet you!

Southern Health is one of the largest Foundation Trusts in the UK, specialising in mental health, adult and child community health and learning disabilities. We are committed to promoting the welfare and safeguarding of children, young people and adults at risk of abuse and neglect through our 6,500 strong workforce.

Southern Health has over 300 sites across the county and we serve 1.5 million people throughout all stages of their lives. Our aim is to work alongside the people we support (and our health and care partners) to deliver the best possible care and constantly improve.

Here at SHFT we have so much to be proud of:

• Working as a team and supporting each other, we put patients and our staff at the heart of everything we do.
• We have a skilled and diverse workforce and are committed to our staff development, offering bespoke training packages, leadership pathways and career opportunities.
• We offer a variety of benefits such as an amazing pension scheme, generous annual leave, Childcare Choices scheme, many discounts (Blue Light card, The Company Shop, NHS Staff Discounts, cycle to work scheme) and much more.

Come to work with us, together we will provide outstanding treatment and care to improve lives.

Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Petersfield Hospital

Swan Street, Petersfield

Petersfield

Hampshire

GU32 3LB

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Petersfield Hospital

Swan Street, Petersfield

Petersfield

Hampshire

GU32 3LB

Employer's website

https://www.southernhealth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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