Job Description:
Job Title: Pharmacist (Outpatients) - Bank Shifts
Department: Pharmacy
Location: 164-178 Cromwell Hospital, Cromwell Road, London SW5 0TU
Permanent / Contract: Bank Shifts
Salary range: £25 per hour
The Outpatient Pharmacy service is open on Monday to Friday from 9am to 8.30pm, and Saturdays from 9am to 2.30pm.
Who we’re looking for
As an Outpatient Pharmacist at Bupa our patients will be your top priority. With no shareholders, we reinvest our profits back into our business to give you the extra time and technology you need to make a difference to our patients each and everyday.
Reporting to the Lead Pharmacist and working with the wider department team, you will provide first class service to our Outpatients customers, our staff, and healthcare professionals, preparing discharge packs, prescriptions, providing appropriate counselling, promoting the safe use of medicines, and other associated services.
You’ll help us make health happen by:
Abide by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) standards of conduct, ethics and performance as well as standards for registered pharmacies, observing and applying all professional, ethical and legal obligations
Ensure that the Outpatient Pharmacy service is patient focused, responsive and appropriate and that the professional image of the department is upheld at all times.
Work in the Outpatient pharmacy by undertaking responsibilities required of a Responsible Pharmacist including ensuring that medicines are dispensed in a legal, efficient and accurate way and that appropriate clinical and other checks have been carried out.
Ensure patients are given appropriate counselling and information, regarding their medicines. To counsel patients on the use of their medicines and to counter-prescribe suitable medicines if necessary
Provide professional leadership in the pharmacy, ensuring all pharmacy practice, including their own, is within the boundaries described within the latest version of the Medicines, Ethics and Practice issued by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and General Pharmaceutical Council.
Ensuring individual patient needs are met and appropriate actions are taken to resolve issues as they arise.
Participate in the clinical pharmacy service as appropriate.
What you’ll bring:
Master’s Degree in Pharmacy
Registered Pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Experience of managing a pharmacy and team
Flexibility to work variable shifts between 08.30-20.00
Ability to cover on call, evening and weekend services
Minimum of two years post-registration experience
Desirable to have hospital and clinical experience with knowledge of Ascribe.
Benefits
Our benefits are driven by what matters to our people. It’s important to us that these benefits support a work-life balance that keeps people healthy, both mentally and physically. Alongside flexible hours to suit your own circumstances you’ll also be able to take advantage of other great benefits:
An hourly rate that incorporates payment of annual leave.
Subsidised staff canteen and coffee shop lead by expert caterers.
Inclusion in the NEST government pension scheme.
Why Bupa?
We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.
We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.
At Bupa we strive to ensure all our of customers, patients and staff are safe. All employees have a duty to ensure that safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk is prioritised and acted on appropriately.
Time Type:
Part time
Job Area:
Clinical Services
Locations:
Cromwell Hospital London
