This post is based at St. Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Rd, Newport PO30 5TG

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Isle of Wight NHS Trust

Calling all Pharmacists!

Are you ready to develop your knowledge, skills and pharmaceutical expertise? Have you thought about your next career step? Do you share the same passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care?  We encourage Pharmacists of all skills to apply!

The Isle of Wight NHS Trust (IWT) welcomes you to join us on our journey towards this goal. IWT are thrilled to offer a fantastic opportunity to join our Pharmacy Team. We are recruiting to our Foundation Pharmacist position (Band 6-7 progression posts.) 

The Pharmacy Team based at St Marys Hospital are energetic and forward looking, with a strong culture of patient safety and service quality. We believe in technology supporting excellent clinical practice and releasing time to care, with Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) having been embedded in practice for over 10 years. It is used creatively to enhance clinical practice with a fully integrated medicines management system that seamlessly interfaces EPMA with pharmacy dispensing, stock control, clinical area automated medicines cabinetry (Omnicell) and further robotics within the Pharmacy department.

You will get the chance to work in many clinical areas including our Emergency Department, Acute Assessment Unit, General Medicine, Stroke, Care of Older People, General Surgery, Orthopaedics, Oncology, Haematology and Hospice care.

Visits to our team are welcomed and would encourage you to spend the day with us, we will be able to support your travel costs.

This post is based at St. Mary's Hospital, Parkhurst Rd, Newport PO30 5TG

Foundation Pharmacists Key Responsibilities:

• Complete Trust funded programme (2 Years). We will support you to develop your skills to match the RPS Foundation Pharmacist Framework
• Provide support and underpinning of the clinical work of senior clinical pharmacists.
• Support to Urgent and Emergency Services, Medical, Surgical and Orthopaedic wards, Stroke and Coronary Care Services, Hospice, Medicines Advice services, and dispensary/discharge activities on a rotational basis and competencies needed to provide this support will be attained through the pharmacist rotational training programme.
• You will undertake Medicines Reconciliation and core clinical pharmacy duties.
• You will ensure systems for facilitating discharge medicines to meet patients and general practitioners needs.
• Be actively involved in the training and development of pharmacy team members.
• Support in education and health promotion with patients and the public.
• Provide a core weekday service with some weekend and on-call duties.
• On-call pharmacist duties are undertaken from home and calls are first screened via the Trust Clinical Site Management Team to ensure they are appropriate.

Job description

We are looking for someone who:

• Puts patient care first.
• Will apply good clinical knowledge.
• Has strong teamworking and communication skills.
• Has good problem solving, time management and prioritisation skills.
• Has a strong commitment to learning and development of themselves and others.
• Is adaptable and resilient.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.