Job Description

Division: Unplanned & Integrated Care

Band: 7

Salary: £43,742 - £50,056 per annum/pro rata

Interview date: Week commencing 6th June 2023

A new and exciting opportunity has arisen to undertake the role of a clinical pharmacist in our acute and emergency medicine care group. This would be ideal for anyone looking to develop from a current Band 6 hospital pharmacist role or for a current Band 7 pharmacist who may be looking to work in a NHS hospital environment.

As a band 7 clinical pharmacist you will cover the admissions areas, joining our team of pharmacists and technicians providing medicines optimisation support and advice to our adult inpatient wards.

You will have the opportunity to experience a variety of areas and continue to challenge yourself to grow as a pharmacist by joining post take ward rounds and leading on developing excellent care within the acute and emergency medicine care group.

Our values areBold,Every Person Counts,Sharing and Open andTogether. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.

To contribute to our exciting future and become part of our team, apply today.

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.

Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement which will not mean sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We aim to support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit you and us.

All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.

We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under – represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.

All staff at Medway comply the Trust’s and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board’s policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.

Medway hospital is the largest hospital in Kent. It is a single-site hospital based in Gillingham, near London, which serves a population of more than 424,000 across Medway and Swale.

The Trust is split into two divisions that are further split into care groups including peri-operative and critical care, women’s and children’s, surgical services, cancer services, acute and emergency care, therapies and older persons, and specialist medicine.

The pharmacy department sits in the diagnostics and clinical support services care group that also includes specialist haematology services.

Our team endeavours to provide a comprehensive, efficient and safe pharmacy service to all clinical areas. This is to ensure we are consistently contributing to quality improvements in both prescribing and overall patient care.

We are a kind, compassionate and equitable department with a focus on continuous improvement of our services for the benefit of our patients. We believe in empowering leadership that creates a positive, safe and supportive team culture where all team members, no matter their role, have a voice.

The pharmacy department is expanding and has over 100 members of staff. We also host a number of PCN pharmacists from across the ICP. We have strong links with the Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) and ICB, particularly working collaboratively with the ICB medicines optimisation pharmacy team, acute Trusts and other community healthcare providers in the region.

We are developing strong links with the local Medway School of Pharmacy and other Higher Education Institutions in order to build our research capacity across the system and have recently recruited a specialist pharmacist research lead.

We are modern and innovative, progressively driving the service forward with an increasing number of specialist pharmacist and technician positions.

We also provide operational services for homecare, aseptics, procurement, distribution, clinical trials, outpatient and inpatient dispensary.

We pride ourselves on our friendly, supportive and diverse culture.

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