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 - Lead Senior Assistant Technical Officer for Dispensary/Patient Service

Pharmacy

Our friendly and progressive Pharmacy department is currently looking for a dynamic and forward-thinking individual to join our Pharmacy Dispensary and Patient Services team.

This role will involve supporting and maintaining the dispensary and patient services function on a day-to-day basis and providing supervisory support to the team alongside our established management structure.

Salary: £26,530.00 – £29,114 per annum Closing Date: 15/10/2024 Job Ref: 223-LST-718 Location: The Princess Royal Hospital, Telford

Pharmacy - Advanced Specialist Pharmacist – Critical Care

Pharmacy Rotational Pharmacists Team

we have an exciting opportunity available within our Pharmacy Department based at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH), for a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist working collaboratively with the Critical Care Clinical team across both sites to develop the current service provided to ensure a safe and effective service. 

Salary: £53,775.00 – £60,504 per annum Closing Date: 15/10/2024 Job Ref: 223-CSP-720 Location: The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital

Pharmacy - Pharmacy Technician - Aseptic Services and Cancer

Pharmacy Aseptics/QA Team

We are looking to appoint Pharmacy Technicians who are interested in working within Aseptic Services but would still like to maintain their clinical skills.

Salary: £29,970.00 – £36,483 per annum Closing Date: 15/10/2024 Job Ref: 223-PTA-726 Location: The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital

Pharmacy - Advanced Pharmacy Homecare Assistant Technical Officer

Pharmacy

Do you enjoy being part of a well-motivated, patient focused team?

Are you well organised, with excellent communication skills?

Are you interested in being part of a growing service within Pharmacy,  providing medicines delivery to patients?

If your answer is yes to any of the above then we have an exciting opportunity available within our Pharmacy department at The Royal Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH), to join the expanding Homecare Team.  We are seeking a highly motivated individual with effective administration skills to enable our service to grow.

Salary: £26,530.00 – £29,114 per annum Closing Date: 16/10/2024 Job Ref: 223-APH-722 Location: Royal Shrewsbury Hospital

Pharmacy - Pharmacy Support Officer (Aseptic)

Pharmacy Aseptics/QA Team

The role of the pharmacy Support Officer (Aseptic) is varied one, you will never be bored!

The Aseptic Unit is a specialised clean area within Pharmacy where injectable products are manufactured. These products treat chemotherapy patients or are used in diagnostic tests.

You will be working in the Aseptic Cleanrooms, carrying out stock control within the Pharmacy Department and delivering medication the ward/clinic areas. 

Salary: £23,615.00 – £23,615 per annum Closing Date: 22/10/2024 Job Ref: 223-PSO-752 Location: Shrewsbury

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

If you are interested in a Pharmacist position at the NHS, please complete your details below and a member of the team will be in contact.

We hope to hear from you.

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