Band 7 Locum Pharmacist - London

Role: Locum Pharmacist
Banding: Band 7
Location: London
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 3 months
Hours: Full-time, Monday to Friday
Rate: £28 - £34 per hour

About the role:

The Pharmacy team at Pulse is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Band 7 Clinical Pharmacist to join our Planned Care (Surgery) team. This role is crucial in ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient use of medicines within the Emergency and Integrated Care Division. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing clinical pharmacy services to a sub-speciality, reviewing prescriptions, and monitoring the therapeutic use of medicines. You will play a key role in patient education, discharge planning, and promoting professional standards within the dispensary.

Key Responsibilities:

You will provide clinical pharmacy services to a sub-speciality within the Emergency and Integrated Care Division. You will review prescriptions for accuracy, legality, and potential issues. You will clinically screen and supply medicines for inpatient use and discharge. You will monitor and review the therapeutic use of medicines. You will ensure effective treatment outcomes with medicines. You will monitor patients for adverse effects of their medicines. You will educate patients on the purpose of their medicines and address practical issues. You will support patient discharge planning with respect to medication. You will ensure the safe, clinically effective, and cost-effective use of medicines. You will demonstrate professional accountability to patients. You will support the provision of a safe and legal dispensing service in the Dispensary as required. You will promote professional standards in the dispensary by acting as a role model to other pharmacists and technicians.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Experience/Knowledge:

• Up to date GPhC registration.

• Master’s degree in pharmacy or equivalent.

• Proven hospital experience is essential.

• Strong understanding of medication management and patient care.

• Skills/Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• Time management and problem-solving skills.

• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Why work with Pulse?

From the moment you register with us, our focus is entirely on you. During our first conversation, you’ll quickly see that we understand your specialty inside and out.

Our expert recruitment consultants are dedicated to finding you the best opportunities and supporting you every step of the way to secure the perfect placement. With our preferred or sole supplier status with many clients, you’ll have access to exclusive opportunities that you won’t find anywhere else.

We always prioritize your best interests, engaging in meaningful conversations and truly listening to you. You are an individual, a professional—not just a resource.

Reasonable Adjustments:

If you consider yourself to have a disability or require any reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process or within the workplace, please highlight this at the earliest opportunity by contacting our team. With this information, we will provide appropriate support to you throughout the process and into your work placement.

We are unable to support or accept applications from candidates who are residents within the Red or Amber list of the Code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England, based on the World Health Organisation (WHO) Workforce Support and Safeguard List.