Pharmacy

The Pharmacy Team at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital are a fun, friendly and sociable crowd. With a rounders team, running club, and departmental bake-offs, it’s a great team to join! We are looking for people to join our highly motivated clinical pharmacy team, committed to delivering a forward-focused pharmacy service, built around our patients.

The department offers a comprehensive range of services and specialities and provides an ideal base to enable pharmacists to further develop their professional and clinical skills. There are great prospects for everyone, regardless of experience and qualifications.

The highest priority for The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust is to continue to improve the quality of the services we provide for our patients. With a strong focus on ward based patient centred clinical care, you will be working within and supported by a team of pharmacists and medicine management technicians who are well integrated at ward level.

There is a pharmacy department on both The Princess Royal Hospital in Telford, and The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital sites which provide an integrated pharmaceutical service to The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS
Trust.

There is a structured training programme for all levels of staff with internal training, case-based learning, or funding for your Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy (for Pharmacists) provided as a distance-learning programme through Keele University. Training and support is also available for Pharmacy Technicians to gain accredited checking status and medicines management training.

Once you have joined our Trust we are committed to developing your career and will work hard to keep you with us.

Pharmacy - Clinical Pharmacist - OPAT and Antimicrobials

Pharmacist Team

This post may be offered under Annex 21 AfC Terms & Conditions, subject to experience, competency and suitability or may be offered a progressional role to a Band 8a subject to experience.

We are looking for a highly motivated, adaptable and conscientious Registered Pharmacist to join our Pharmacy Team at The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust (SaTH) as part of the newly formed OPAT team. Experience of hospital pharmacy is essential.

Salary: £43,742.00 – £50,056 per annum Closing Date: 02/05/2024 Job Ref: 223-CPT-315-D Location: The Princess Royal Hospital, Telford

Pharmacy - Advanced Specialist Pharmacist - Education and Training

Pharmacy Rotational Pharmacists Team (RSH)

We have a great opportunity for a dynamic, highly motivated clinical pharmacist to undertake an exciting role leading on the day to day delivery of Keele University pharmacy undergraduate placements, supporting preregistration trainee pharmacists undertaking their foundation year and helping develop colleagues using the Newly Qualified Pharmacist programme in our new STEP-Up package.

If you would welcome an opportunity to further your career and academic advancement by undertaking fully funded research leading to a PhD or professional doctorate, or MSc in Clinical Pharmacy Practice - this is fully supported by the Trust and the department.

Salary: £50,952.00 – £57,349 per annum Closing Date: 02/05/2024 Job Ref: 223-ASP-297-C Location: The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital

Pharmacy - Advanced Specialist Pharmacist – Aseptic Services and Radiopharmacy

Pharmacy Aseptics/QA Team

We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity for an experienced individual to work within the Pharmacy Aseptic Services team based at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH). We are looking for a candidate with knowledge and experience in Technical Services, Quality Management, Clinical Nutrition and Radiopharmacy.

This post may be offered under Annex 21 AfC Terms & Conditions or as a progressional post, subject to experience, competency and suitability.

Salary: £50,952.00 – £57,349 per annum Closing Date: 08/05/2024 Job Ref: 223-ASP-461-C Location: The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital

Pharmacy - Advanced Specialist Pharmacist- Rehab (Stroke, Frailty & Orthopaedics)

Pharmacist Team

Do you like the variety of clinical conditions encountered in within the rehabilitation setting? Do you hold, or are you eligible to undertake the Independent Prescribing qualification? Do you enjoy team working?

If your answer is yes to any of the above, then we have an exciting opportunity available within our Pharmacy Department at The Princess Royal Hospital, Telford (PRH), for a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist working within our rehabilitation setting for those areas including Stroke, Frailty and Orthopaedics. This is a brand new role within our Trust where we are looking to provide a new service to our patients who require input in the rehabilitation setting, working as part of a strong clinical pharmacy team focused on this point in the patient’s journey.

This post may be offered under Annex 21 AfC Terms & Conditions or as a progressional post, subject to experience, competency and suitability.

Salary: £50,952.00 – £57,349 per annum Closing Date: 08/05/2024 Job Ref: 223-ASP-366-D Location: The Princess Royal Hospital, Telford

The departments provide a range of services including:

Providing a medicines supply service for all the wards, departments and clinics in the hospital
Dispensing medicines for all inpatients including medication to take home on discharge
Dispensing prescriptions for outpatients who are being treated by the hospital
Preparing sterile doses of medicines, particularly anti-cancer drugs
Checking prescribed drug treatment to ensure the dosages are correct, that one drug will not adversely affect the action of another, that the drug is given in the most suitable way and is the most appropriate drug for the patient and their condition or illness
Providing clinical advice and training on the safe use of medicines to doctors, nurses, midwives and other healthcare staff
Providing information and advice to patients about their drug treatment
Purchasing of all the drugs used within the Trust
Maintaining an evidence-based trust Formulary