Job overview

Applications welcome from community pharmacists, newly qualified pharmacists and pharmacists already working in a hospital setting. The SWLSTG pharmacy team have an excellent opportunity for a pharmacist to join our friendly department. 

The role will include providing clinical pharmacy services to dedicated wards alongside developing skills and knowledge to enable you to work towards contributing to multi-disciplinary team meetings, ward rounds, providing medicines education to patients, carers and staff and completing departmental audits. You will receive excellent support and training from our senior pharmacists and will be supported in continuing professional development and education within Psychiatry.  

You will participate in clinical rotations across different specialities and sites within the Trust.

Career Progression pathways and development opportunities:

This role will help in your development towards specialist clinical practice. There will be opportunity to participate in our pharmacy rotation scheme as well as opportunities to become involved in research and quality improvement as well as undertaking a development program to help you progress to more senior roles within the department.

Successful candidates will be strongly encouraged to undertake newly qualified pharmacist training (previously known as the clinical diploma) and obtain post-registration foundation status with the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, with support provided for this.

Main duties of the job

This varied role includes participation in Ward and Clinical Pharmacy services, provision of specialist advice to medical and nursing staff on the use of medicines, preparation and delivery of training and education sessions to staff both within the pharmacy department and across the Trust, participation in the production of treatment guidelines and protocols to promote effective use of medicines within the Trust and participation in general medicines optimisation initiatives & projects.

We have fully implemented Electronic Prescribing & Administration throughout the Trust and have ongoing service improvement initiatives for inpatient and community services, which the successful candidate will be able to contribute to.

Essential qualities for this post include hospital pharmacy experience, excellent communication and organisational skills, and self-motivation; experience of providing medicines information to other healthcare professionals is desirable. The successful candidate must be able to show compassion and respect for people with mental health problems and be driven to improve their care through medicines optimisation.

Agile and flexible working:

Monday to Friday – 9 to 5pm – No weekends/Bank holidays/late duty rotas. You may be required to participate in the on-call rota.

Working for our organisation

We are Proud to Belong at South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust.

We have expert services, a rich history and a clear commitment to providing the best quality care for those with mental ill-health. The Care Quality Commission already rates our services as ‘good’ - we aspire to be ‘outstanding’.

This is a great time to join us. We are transforming the way we care for our communities to support our mission of Making Life Better Together. We have built two brand new mental health facilities at Springfield University Hospital, which are amongst the best in the world. More developments are planned across our sites and services.

We are inclusive and diverse and strive to be actively anti racist. We want to attract people from all backgrounds and experiences to enrich the work we do together. We are proud to co-produce and involve our local communities in all that we do.

We offer flexible working, career development and a variety of benefits to enable a positive, welcoming environment in which our people and their careers can thrive.

About our locations:

Springfield University Hospital, Tooting

Our largest, 19-ward site is in Springfield Village, created following our £150m investment into two new world class mental health facilities. A 32-acre public park, shops and cafes are coming soon. Close to shops, cafes and Tooting Bec on the Northern Line plus Earlsfield and Tooting rail stations and bus routes.