Rotational Pharmacist (including on-call duties)

Rotational Pharmacist (including on-call duties)

Job description

Job overview

We invite applications to join our team of rotational pharmacists in providing front-line medicines management to UCL Hospitals.

You will benefit from our continually evolving foundation programme which will provide first class training and development.

Our accreditation as a site for delivery of the Postgraduate Diploma in General Pharmacy Practice, through the Joint Programme Board higher education institutes, offers you the opportunity to work within a structured programme of development with progression towards formal postgraduate qualifications.

You will achieve this by way of rotations through all the core disciplines of hospital pharmacy practice, including medicines information and patient,





clinical and technical services, and work closely with your peers in other centres across London.

You will work in, and contribute to, multidisciplinary patient care at all levels across the large range of clinical specialties that UCLH has to offer, and will participate in audit and project work, developing key skills as you progress.

Delivery of a demanding on-call service will also enhance your prioritisation, decision making, and opinion forming skills.

This vacancy has been advertised in accordance with the new NHS pay rate which will take effect from autumn 2024. Please note if your employment starts before the 24 / 25 pay scales are implemented you will be paid under the 23 / 24 pay scales and any backpay will be adjusted accordingly.

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Main duties of the job

You will have the opportunity to gain clinical experience in General Medicine and Surgery, Women’s Health, Gastroenterology, as well as specialist rotations in Urology and Thoracic Medicine,





Critical Care, Paediatrics and HIV and Infection.

You will gain operational and technical skills during Patient and Technical Services rotations.

You will participate in the frontline on-call rota delivering a high quality pharmacy service out of hours.

For this role you will therefore need :

- Excellent communication skills
- Excellent customer care
- Motivated and able to motivate others
- Able to work as part of a team and independently
- Good Timekeeping and prioritisation skills

Working for our organisation

University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population.

We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area,





from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas.

Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.

We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites :

University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)

National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery

Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals

University College Hospital Grafton Way Building

Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine

University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre

The Hospital for Tropical Diseases

University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street

We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses.





UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease.

It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.

We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH.

We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.

▶️ Rotational Pharmacist (including on-call duties)
🖊️ University College London Hospitals
📍 London