Spire Healthcare
Bank Pharmacist
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Bank Clinical Pharmacist | Harpenden | Bank Contract | Flexible Shifts
Looking for flexibility without compromising on clinical practice?
Spire Harpenden Hospital is seeking a motivated and patient-focused Clinical Pharmacist to join our friendly pharmacy team on a Bank basis. This is an excellent opportunity for a pharmacist looking for flexible working arrangements while remaining clinically active in a modern, supportive hospital environment.
Why Join Spire Harpenden Hospital?
As a Clinical Pharmacist, you'll be an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, working closely with consultants, nurses, and healthcare professionals to ensure patients receive safe, effective, and personalised medicines management throughout their hospital journey.
Unlike traditional pharmacy roles, you'll spend most of your time on the wards, interacting directly with patients and influencing clinical decision-making, rather than working primarily in dispensary services.
Duties and responsibilities:
- Deliver a high-quality clinical pharmacy service across the hospital
- Review medication histories, prescriptions, and clinical information to optimise patient outcomes.
- Provide expert medicines advice and support to consultants, nurses, and wider clinical teams.
- Support patients with discharge medicines, side effect counselling, and medication adherence.
- Promote the safe, appropriate, and cost-effective use of medicines.
- Identify opportunities to improve processes, enhance patient safety, and drive service development.
- Build strong collaborative relationships with colleagues across multiple specialties.
- Contribute to a patient-centred culture focused on exceptional care and outcomes.
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Who we're looking for:
- Degree in Pharmacy (or equivalent qualification at the time of registration).
- Current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
- Experience applying clinical reasoning skills across a range of patient presentations and clinical scenarios.
- Previous experience working as a pharmacist within a hospital setting
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills.
- Broad pharmaceutical knowledge supported by sound clinical practice.
- Shifts available: Mon - Fri mainly (with potential to cover Saturdays if required)
- Shift patterns: 8:30- 4:30 or 9:00- 5:00 or 9:30-5:30.
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Benefits:
We offer employed colleagues a competitive salary as well as a comprehensive benefits package which includes but is not limited to:
- Bank colleagues are paid weekly
- Access to Spire Healthcare pension
- Access to Blue Light Card discounts
- Free uniform
- Free DBS
- Full induction, including mandatory training updates
- Opportunities for further training and progression into permanent posts
- Knowledge, support and guidance through your recruitment journey from Spire’s specialist Resourcing Team
- Employer and employee contributory pension with flexible retirement options
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Spire Healthcare are proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive culture for all. Our people are our difference, it’s their dedication, warmth and pursuit of excellence that sets Spire Healthcare apart.
Closing date: In order to streamline our recruitment process, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
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