Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

ROTATIONAL CLINICAL PHARMACIST 
BAND 6 WITH WEEKEND AND ON-CALL DUTIES (7 DAY WORKING) – FULL TIME, 6 MONTH FIXED TERM CONTRACT

• Would you like the opportunity of gaining clinical experience as a clinical pharmacist in a supportive learning environment and optimise medicines for patients?  
• As part of our continuing commitment to developing our clinical pharmacy team capability we are offering an opportunity at Band 6 to join our friendly and enthusiastic team.  
• This post provides the opportunity to develop your clinical skills and knowledge.  You will be supported through the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Foundation Pharmacy Framework to develop a portfolio of evidence.    
• You will gain invaluable experience in various specialties, being on-call and working in the dispensary.  You will also provide clinical services to our Acute Admissions Unit at weekends, which will be worked as part of your contracted hours on a rotational basis.
• We use the skills of our pharmacy staff, working as a team, to provide a high quality, professional pharmacy service to patients.  The service is responsive to the needs of patients and is developing the use of IT to improve patient safety and efficiency.
• This is a 6-month month fixed term contract to cover a current staff member who will be taking a sabbatical.

Previous applicants need not apply

Applications from trainee pharmacists sitting the GPhC Registration Examination in November will be considered

Main duties of the job

• To provide a Clinical Pharmacy service to designated wards under the supervision of a Senior of Principal Pharmacist, assessing the suitability of prescribed medicines.
• To participate in the delivery of ward and dispensary based pharmaceutical services and maintain clinical and technical skills. 
• To ensure that medicines, including Controlled Drugs, are stored appropriately on wards and departments, performing stock checks when required.

Working for our organisation

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust cares for more than half a million patients a year, from across Kingston, Richmond, Elmbridge (Surrey), Merton, Wandsworth and Sutton. In 2018, we became the first acute hospital trust in London to be rated “Outstanding” for overall quality and leadership by the national Care Quality Commission regulator.

We have approximately 350 beds and directly employ around 2,900 staff. Our trust provides a full range of diagnostic services and treatment services. Our main site is the Kingston Hospital site but we also run a number of outpatient clinics in the community, including in Raynes Park, Surbiton, Queen Mary's Roehampton and Teddington.