Foundation Pharmacist (Rotational)

Our quest is to completely eradicate preventable medication errors and provide a world beating pharmacy service for our patients and organisation. Our Foundation pharmacists are key to the success of this journey and we aim to recruit the best, provide the best training and keep the best (that’s you by the way). You will work alongside the rest of our team, delivering a service where ‘average is just not good enough’. We offer a multitude of varied rotations, each of four month duration, such as respiratory & acute medicine, frailty, digestive diseases, major trauma & orthopaedics, patient services and a unique rotation supporting Brighton University undergraduate placements as an educator and practice supervisor. We hope to have rotations available with our partners in Mental Health and Primary Care in the near future. For each rotation you will be assigned a practice supervisor and your development will be supported using our internal appraisal system and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Foundation Pharmacist Framework with your designated educational supervisor. Your feedback is important too and will be actively sought as part of monthly communication cascades’ with our experienced Educational Programme Director for Foundation Pharmacists, and during the Local Faculty Group meetings. The Trust provides many inter-professional learning opportunities which would also support your development. We are a major regional university teaching hospital, providing general acute services and tertiary services for patients across Sussex and the south east of England. We work as one team across two sites; Brighton and Haywards Heath and have the infrastructure and support for band 6 pharmacist’s development with experience of supporting band 6 to 7 progression posts. The Trust is big and busy and is a specialist in vascular, cardiac, renal, major trauma, cancer, neurosciences, stroke, ophthalmology, infectious diseases and HIV. Our Royal Alexandra Children’s Hospital at the Brighton site hosts many specialist paediatric services. We currently have four joint academic clinical lecturer appointments, an interface pharmacist with our lead commissioner, an embedded pharmacist with NHSE and two consultant pharmacists working within cardiology and HIV as areas of expertise. Our Pharmacy team is led by Mike Cross but all staff get to identify and fix problems through participation in our weekly ‘Patient First – Opportunity Boards’ and can escalate the bigger issues to managers who in turn have been trained to sort things out. Our most recent review by Health Education England of our Pharmacy department education infrastructure concluded that ‘our trainees felt well supported by the senior staff members and that they were very approachable’. Join us atUHSussex, every day is different, you can be the change, better neverstops At UHSussex we’re proud to be at the heart of the NHS. As one of theUK’s largest acute Trusts, we’re a leading example of the excellence, the ambition and the values that have embodied the NHS for over 70 years. Improving lives: We are a vibrant and inclusive organisation, with hardworking, talented and dedicated individuals, who work together towards a common goal, to always put ourPatient First. Our mission is summed up by our ‘where better never stops’ motto and no matter the role at UHSussex, you will play a part in driving us forwards and in improving the lives of patients across Sussex. We treat our patients and staff with the same compassion and empathy we expect for ourselves. We’re here for them when they need us, and we go above and beyond to meet their needs. This can be seen in ourwellbeing programmefor staff which is extensive and designed to support you when you need it because we know that to look after others we must first look after ourselves. Build a career with us: As a university trust and a leader in healthcare research, we value learning, teaching and training so that we can be the best that we can be. From the moment you start with us and throughout your career we will help you to grow and develop. We hope that in choosing UHSussex you are choosing a long and happy career where you will be able to see the difference you make and feel valued for all that you do. To participate in the provision of the Trust’s pharmacy services with due regard to all legal and ethical issues, demonstrating competence and development through the rotation. Rotations could include medicine (e.g. acute medicine, respiratory and frailty), surgery (e.g. digestive diseases, trauma & orthopaedics), medicines information, patient services and the University of Brighton Clinical Lecturer rotations supporting undergraduate placements. There will be a named practice supervisor in each rotation to support development of the band 6 pharmacist. To ensure patients’ treatment with medicines is safe and effective through the provision of advice to prescribers, nursing staff, patients and carers. To participate in training and development and supervision of less experienced or less qualified pharmacy staff e.g. preregistration pharmacists, pharmacy undergraduate students. Gain the requisite skills and knowledge whilst progressing through the rotations. Please see Job Description and Person Specification for full details.