Renal Pharmacist

Band 7 / 8a (depending on experience) - £47,810 - £62,682

Permanent contract

Full time hours: 37.5 per week. 

This is an exciting opportunity for a Specialised (Band 7 to 8a progression) or a Highly Specialised Renal pharmacist (8a) to join a dynamic renal pharmacy service for the Wessex Kidney Centre (WKC). You will be appointed to the grade according to your knowledge, skills and experience. Where you are recruited to a Band 7 position we will support your progress to an 8a role based on the Advanced Level Framework. The successful candidate will work within a well-established team with an excellent culture of multidisciplinary working, providing opportunities to develop and embed a career in renal pharmacy whilst delivering a positive impact on patient experience.

PHUT has a large tertiary Renal and Transplant Unit with a catchment population of 2.2 million patients. The successful applicant will join the specialist renal pharmacy team, who provide the Renal Transplant Homecare service and pharmacist cover for the renal wards along with provision of pharmaceutical services to satellite dialysis units.

There is an excellent culture of multidisciplinary team working and there are opportunities within the role to run clinics and become involved in research. You will have the opportunity to make a significant difference to clinical outcomes and patient safety, providing medicines optimisation to a complex cohort of patients. The successful applicant will help ensure that suitable systems and processes are followed to assure patient safety, optimise clinical outcomes and meet operational goals, ensuring governance and quality controls are in place. The post holder will act as a role model and become an expert in renal medicine as well as developing specialist knowledge in all aspects of drug management of renal patients. 

for additional information, please attached Band 7 Job description and band 8a Job description

Qualifications

• Masters or Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Completed or studying for Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.