Pharmacy

The Pharmacy Team at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital are a fun, friendly and sociable crowd. With a rounders team, running club, and departmental bake-offs, it’s a great team to join! We are looking for people to join our highly motivated clinical pharmacy team, committed to delivering a forward-focused pharmacy service, built around our patients.

The department offers a comprehensive range of services and specialities and provides an ideal base to enable pharmacists to further develop their professional and clinical skills. There are great prospects for everyone, regardless of experience and qualifications.

The highest priority for The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is to continue to improve the quality of the services we provide for our patients. With a strong focus on ward based patient centred clinical care, you will be working within and supported by a team of pharmacists and medicine management technicians who are well integrated at ward level.

There is a pharmacy department on both The Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, and The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital sites which provide an integrated pharmaceutical service to The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS
Trust.

There is a structured training programme for all levels of staff with internal training, case-based learning, or funding for your Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy (for Pharmacists) provided as a distance-learning programme through Keele University. Training and support is also available for Pharmacy Technicians to gain accredited checking status and medicines management training.

Once you have joined our Trust we are committed to developing your career and will work hard to keep you with us.

Pharmacy - Deputy Chief Pharmacist

Pharmacy

We are looking for an experienced Pharmacist with excellent communication skills, leadership skills and clinical pharmacy knowledge to join the pharmacy team as Deputy Chief Pharmacist.

You will work with the Chief Pharmacist to ensure the Trust-wide delivery of safe, effective and efficient medicines optimisation and pharmacy services to patients and other service users in the Trust. As a member of the Pharmacy Senior Leadership Team you will assist in leading the development of medicines optimisation and pharmacy services throughout the Trust.

Salary: £74,290.00 – £85,601 per annum Closing Date: 28/01/2025 Job Ref: 223-DCP-017 Location: The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust

Pharmacy - Senior Pharmacy Technician - Chemotherapy and Aseptic Services Band 6

Pharmacy

We are looking to appoint a Senior Pharmacy Technician who is interested in working within Aseptic Services and Outsourcing services.

The successful applicant will have post registration experience as a Pharmacy Technician along with excellent organisational skills.

We are a very friendly team and have great working relationships with the clinicians and nursing staff within cancer services.

Salary: £37,338.00 – £44,962 per annum Closing Date: 28/01/2025 Job Ref: 223-SPT-028 Location: Pharmacy Department, The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital

The departments provide a range of services including:

  • Providing a medicines supply service for all the wards, departments and clinics in the hospital
  • Dispensing medicines for all inpatients including medication to take home on discharge
  • Dispensing prescriptions for outpatients who are being treated by the hospital
  • Preparing sterile doses of medicines, particularly anti-cancer drugs
  • Checking prescribed drug treatment to ensure the dosages are correct, that one drug will not adversely affect the action of another, that the drug is given in the most suitable way and is the most appropriate drug for the patient and their condition or illness
  • Providing clinical advice and training on the safe use of medicines to doctors, nurses, midwives and other healthcare staff
  • Providing information and advice to patients about their drug treatment
  • Purchasing of all the drugs used within the Trust
  • Maintaining an evidence-based trust Formulary

If you are interested in a Pharmacist position at the NHS, please complete your details below and a member of the team will be in contact.

We hope to hear from you.

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