Clinical Pharmacist Band 6 with progression to Band 7
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation TrustHome, community, hospital
Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.
Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.
We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.
Our Trust values
These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.
- Compassionate: We provide care with kindness, understanding, and empathy for all.
- Inclusive: We embrace diversity and respect the unique contributions of every individual.
- Collaborative: We foster teamwork across all levels, working together and with our partners to deliver the best outcomes.
- Inspiring: We are committed to continuous improvement and excellence in patient care, staff development, and innovation.
Job overview
Would you like the opportunity of gaining clinical experience as a clinical pharmacist in a supportive learning environment and optimise medicines for patients? As part of our continuing commitment to developing our clinical pharmacy team capability we are offering an opportunity at Band 6 to join our friendly and enthusiastic team. You will join us as a Band 6 progressing through our training programme to a Band 7.
This post provides the opportunity to develop your clinical skills and knowledge progressing from Band 6 to 7 on completion of key objectives. You will be supported through the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Foundation Pharmacy Framework to develop a portfolio of evidence. If you have not already started your diploma, we will support the Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice at UCL. Following on from the successful completion of these objectives, you will be moved directly into a Band 7 position.
You will gain invaluable experience in various specialties, being on-call and working in the dispensary. You will also provide clinical services to our Acute Admissions Unit at weekends, which will be worked as part of your contracted hours on a rotational basis
For further information please contact Roshni Thoppil, Senior Principal Pharmacist on 020 8934 3142 or Kunali Patel, Senior Pharmacist Education & Training on 020 8934 2065
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To participate in the delivery of ward and dispensary based pharmaceutical services and maintain clinical and technical skills
To provide a Clinical Pharmacy service to designated wards under the supervision of a Senior of Principal Pharmacist, assessing the suitability of prescribed medicines.
To implement a good framework of pharmaceutical care through effective drug history taking and documentation, review of patient medication, evaluating efficacy and toxicity of medication used, observing and reporting risk issues relating to the use of medications, when necessary.
Working for our organisation
We have four core values that all colleagues are expected to demonstrate in the way they work. Shaped by staff, patients and partners, our values are the guiding principles that together define who we are, what we do and what’s most important to us. We are:
Compassionate - we treat everyone with kindness, understanding and empathy
Inclusive - we are respectful, fair and open, embracing everyone’s unique contribution
Collaborative - we work together across our teams and with our partners and are helpful, positive and supportive
Inspiring - we strive for the best for patients, staff and partners and are always learning and improving
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults at risk of harm. For roles involving direct access to these groups, an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check will be required. All employees, however, hold a responsibility to safeguard children and vulnerable adults as part of their duties and to understand the specific safeguarding responsibilities associated with their role.