Rotational Clinical Pharmacist - IF and Nutrition

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Job Description
Job overview
We are looking for bright and enthusiastic pharmacists, with the motivation to develop their clinical knowledge and skills in practice, to join our development programme for clinical pharmacists.
The programme includes year long rotations through areas such as medicine, gastroenterology, urology, thoracic surgery, neurosciences, hyperacute stroke, HIV and sexual health, and women's health including neonates.

Main duties of the job
Many of the rotations support tertiary services, and offer exposure and experience of cutting edge practice in rapidly developing diagnostic and therapeutic areas, which require continually evolving approaches to medicines management.
Your principle job role will focus around direct patient care, applying your therapeutics knowledge and skills to ensure that all our patients receive safe and effective medication throughout their time with the Trust, as both an inpatient and outpatient. You will use your excellent analytical skills to gather and process relevant information held within our new electronic health records system, Epic, to achieve optimal outcomes.

Working for our organisation
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites: University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital
Eastman Dental Hospital
Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
University College Hospitals at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women's health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
At UCLH, we have a real 'One Team' ethos, and our values - safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will also be introduced to core directorate activities such as reporting and analysis of medicines expenditure, budget planning for tariff-excluded high cost drugs, project management, clinical governance activities, and more general management and leadership roles.
We are closely involved with the Joint Programme Board's Advanced Practice Programme, and are gradually implementing key concepts including development of strong leaders within the pharmacy workforce. We also have an established development programme for band 7 clinical pharmacists, based around fortnightly educational meetings.
With a broad base of general and specific clinical experience, along with excellent interpersonal and communication skills, you will also contribute towards the clinical supervision of multi-professional undergraduate students and the mentorship of pre-registration and postgraduate diploma students. You will also provide support for the implementation of general clinical pharmacy initiatives, and participate in audit and clinical research projects.
For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Person specification

Qualifications, knowledge & competence

Essential criteria Completion of a Master's degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent)
Full registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
A minimum of two-and-a-half years post-registration experience in pharmacy
Demonstrable evidence of competence in general clinical practice, including medicine and surgery
Postgraduate qualification in clinical pharmacy, or satisfactory evidence of equivalent competence, as demonstrated within a practice portfolio Applicants undertaking the JPB Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice will be expected to have completed at least two FS2 modules
Management & leadership skills

Essential criteria Ability to evaluate quality of own work
Desirable criteria Ability to evaluate quality of own work Identifies personal development needs
Clinical & interpersonal skills
Ref: 99555526

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