4280 - Senior Rotational Pharmacist

As a Rotational Clinical Pharmacist, you will gain wide ranging experience in all aspects of hospital pharmacy, and you will be integral to providing a Clinical Pharmacy Service to our core wards on a rotational basis. Alongside all of our other Pharmacists you will help provide our remote On-Call Service as well as working late nights, weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis.

Clinical rotations (may be subject to change) will include:

Cardiology, Respiratory

Care of the Elderly

Gastroenterology, Endocrinology

General Surgery, Orthopaedics

Admissions

Aseptics, including haemato-oncology

You will have regular meetings with the Lead Pharmacist for each speciality in order to facilitate learning objectives and to provide clinical support where needed.

You should be an excellent communicator with the ability to work on your own initiative and as part of a team. You will be working towards a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy and in your second year you will be encouraged to obtain a qualification as a Pharmacist Prescriber.

We welcome applications from existing Band 6 Pharmacists (who have completed or working towards completion of the 1st year of the PGDip) or from current Band 7 Pharmacists looking for a rotational role.

Our Pharmacy department has a strong clinical presence in all areas. We have an establishment of over 100 members and enjoy an excellent reputation within the Trust where we provide patient-centred Clinical Pharmacy Services to inpatients and outpatients, in the form of Pharmacist-led Clinics, at Barnsley Hospital.

Our highly respected and well embedded Clinical Pharmacy Service with ward-based Clinical Pharmacists, Medicines Management Technicians and Medicines Management Support Workers will ensure that you have maximal patient contact with a minimal supply role.

We are an innovative and forward-thinking department who over recent years has invested in a host of technical improvements. The department is friendly, forward thinking and constantly expanding. This is an exciting time to be joining the team as electronic prescribing and medicines administration EPMA is fully embedded and we are using Quality Improvement QI methodology to reprofile and optimise all aspects of the pharmacy service, and we welcome and routinely implement ideas around doing things differently., Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a high performing Trust, currently rated Good by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and achieving significant progress in the delivery of our strategic objectives, including our ambition to be the best Place to Work.

We scored best in the country in the most recent NHS Staff Survey for teamwork, compassionate leadership, and supporting work/life balance. In 2024's survey, the Trust also scored above average in every theme of the NHS People Promise the promise NHS colleagues make to each other to improve the experience of working in the NHS for everyone.

We are proud of the commitment of our colleagues to ensuring a strong and sustainable future and our organisation is highly valued by our local communities.

There has never been a better time to join Barnsley Hospital. It is moving at pace and a we can do this attitude is evident right through the organisation.

Barnsley Hospital NHS FT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity and fair treatment to all applicants.

For individuals who may require sponsorship under the skilled worker or health & care visa route please use the link on the right hand side of the advert to check your eligibility.

The cost of the DBS (criminal records check) for Band 6 and above roles will only be met by the successful candidate(s) through salary deduction.