Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn
Location
King's Lynn, Norfolk | United Kingdom
Job description
A Vacancy at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital King's Lynn NHS Foundation Trust.
This is a great time to join our forward-thinking and innovative pharmacy team. We are developing our pharmacist team and invite applications for Rotational Pharmacists. We are looking for motivated and compassionate pharmacists with a willingness to learn and work effectively across our clinical teams. This rotational role will build your experience in a range of clinical areas. We offer a fulfilling role, in a friendly and collaborative department with opportunities for development.Support will be provided by our Education and Development Team and Speciality Pharmacists. You will join our STAR (Start, Training, Advantage, Rotational) programme with opportunities to learn with your peers and access supervision, portfolio/credentialing, competency framework and effective training including thenewly qualified clinical diploma programme. Our location is close to the country’s most beautiful beaches and the broads national park, an area of outstanding natural beauty. Kings Lynn and the surrounding areas offer great places to live whether you enjoy our beautiful coast and beaches, rural villages or city living. Our Trust is offering a financial welcome incentive of £2000 for this role, subject to terms and conditions.Further details of this incentive can be discussed at interview. You will work across a variety of clinical specialities to support the safe and timely discharge of patients, clinical screening and accuracy checking within the dispensary and medicines safety and quality improvement. The rotational clinical pharmacist role supports the Lead Pharmacists and Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager to develop the specialist clinical pharmacy service across a range of specialities, in line with local and national standards and policies, ensuring the safe, clinical and cost-effective use of medicines and staff resources. You will deliver pharmaceutical advice and effective communication with patients, the pharmacy team and healthcare professionals. You will participate in multidisciplinary meetings, support colleagues to deliver risk and financial management and clinical governance responsibilities around the use of medicines. You will support clinical supervision and mentoring for team members including trainee foundation pharmacists. You will support the Lead and Specialist Pharmacists clinical pharmacy audits and practice research. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) King’s Lynn is located near some of the most beautiful scenery in the UK, along the north Norfolk coast, and not far from Sandringham House. We provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based healthcare services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, in addition to parts of Breckland, Cambridgeshire and South Lincolnshire. We have more than 4,000 staff and volunteers, approximately 530 beds, and a helipad for air ambulances. We work with neighbouring hospitals for the provision of tertiary services, including as part of regional partnership and network models of care, such as the trauma network. In February 2022 the significant progress that has been made at QEH was recognised by the Care Quality Commission who rated the Trust as ‘Good’ in all of the core services they inspected. They recommended the Trust moves out of the recovery support system (formerly special measures). Please access the attached Candidate Pack which introduces #TeamQE, our Pharmacy Department and the advantages of living and working in Kings Lynn/West Norfolk. Our Trust offers onsite accommodation and parking. Kings Lynn railway station makes community from the Cambridge area accessible. Direct buses from Kings Lynn bus station serve the hospital. See the attached Job Description for further information about this role. The Job Description includes the Person Specification for use during shortlisting and interview. For an informal discussion about this post contact Nicola Smith on [email protected] to arrange a discussion with our Pharmacist Team. This advert closes on Tuesday 27 Feb 2024Job tags
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