Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

Are you a motivated pharmacist looking to broaden your clinical experience and take the next step in your career? Join our friendly and supportive pharmacy team at Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, based at Southmead Hospital., We're committed to supporting your professional development and offer the opportunity to undertake a fully funded two-year Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice, alongside the option to study for an independent prescribing qualification. You'll benefit from structured training, ongoing support and the opportunity to learn from our experienced specialist pharmacists. As a valued member of the multidisciplinary team, you'll play an important role in delivering safe, effective and patient-centred pharmaceutical care, helping patients get the best outcomes from their medicines. This role also includes participation in the Emergency Duty Commitment (EDC) rota, alongside the usual pharmacy service rotas. This episode of recruitment welcomes applications from already qualified and UK registered pharmacists., As a rotational Band 6 pharmacist, you will deliver patient-centred pharmaceutical care across a variety of clinical settings, working alongside experienced pharmacists and multidisciplinary colleagues. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Providing safe, effective and evidence-based pharmaceutical care, identifying and resolving medicines-related issues.
• Supporting the appropriate use of medicines in line with best practice, local formularies and Trust policies.
• Undertaking medicines reconciliation, clinical screening of prescriptions and discharge summaries, and providing medicines advice to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
• Contributing to the prevention of medicines-related harm and improving patient safety.
• Supporting the delivery of pharmacy services through dispensary, ward, weekend, late shift and on-call rotas.
• Providing professional supervision and accuracy checking within the dispensary.
• Participating in medicines information, controlled drug management, quality assurance and departmental audits.
• Supporting patients receiving oral chemotherapy, including appropriate counselling and BOPA accreditation.
• Participate in dispensary, ward, weekend, late shift and on-call rotas, including Emergency Duty Commitments (EDC), to support the safe and effective delivery of pharmacy services.
You'll also be encouraged to develop your clinical skills and take an active role in your professional development throughout your rotations.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations,operatingfrom three main sites at Southmead, Bristol citycentreand Weston. With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge