Bank Specialist Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT) are seeking Specialist Clinical Pharmacists (Band 7) to join the Staff Bank, who will support the team, department and organisation to achieve the Trust's mission of "Best care by the best people".

NELFT provided a wide range of community and mental health services to a large population across Goodmayes and North East London. The clinical pharmacy team has an outsourced provision for medicines dispensing and supply, and therefore this role will be required to provide patient facing clinical services across our inpatient units.

We are looking for pharmacists to join this growing team to provide comprehensive clinical pharmacy services. We will in return give the opportunity for flexibility in working patterns and hours as well as opportunities to work in our London sites in Mental Health and/or Community Health Services. We look forward to receiving your application.

Job Title and Grade: Specialist Clinical Pharmacist, Band 7

Main duties of the job

• Being part of a specialist pharmacy team working within mental health services (MHS) and community health services (CHS) ensuring that the changing medicines optimisation and pharmacy needs are being met across NELFT within the inpatient setting and community teams.
• Providing Clinical Pharmacy Service to both MHS and CHS inpatient wards and community teams
• Supporting the development and implementation of medicines optimisation initiatives within MHS and CHS. Promote high quality medicine use, effective risk management, clinical governance, and adherence to policies and guidelines concerning medicines use across all settings. They will support getting the best value from medicines spend within this area across all services within a scope of practice.
• Supporting and contributing to clinical audits.
• Developing and delivering the pharmacy relevant training packages to assist medical, nursing and pharmacy staff across MHS and CHS.
• Working closely with quality and patient safety teams to review quality and risk management issues related to pharmacy and medicine management.
• Providing a clinical ward pharmacy service to MHS and CHS in-patient wards and community teams within NELFT

About us

We operate a Temporary Staffing service and offer our Bank Staff excellent benefits including:

• Competitive hourly rates and weekly pay;
• Access to paid annual leave and statutory sick pay;
• My Trust Benefits discount scheme;
• Access to the NHS pension scheme;
• Paid mandatory training;
• Opportunities for locally agreed training;
• PAMOVA training for Mental Health staff;
• Flexibility of hours/location;
• Priority over agency staff for booking shifts;
• Opportunity to apply for permanent posts.

COVID-19 Vaccination

We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.

For more information about working on the Temporary Staffing Bank please contact the Temporary Staffing Team on 0300 300 1530.

Employer details

Employer name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

Various

London

IG3 8XJ

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

NELFT North East London Foundation Trust

Address

Various

London

IG3 8XJ

Employer's website

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

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