You must be a newly qualified or experienced pharmacist, enthusiastic, team-oriented, able to manage time, and willing to participate in weekend shifts and a probationary period.

You will develop hospital pharmacy skills, work cross-site, gain clinical experience, manage tasks, communicate with colleagues, and participate in weekend and holiday rotas.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) offers a broad range of healthcare services, including acute, emergency, and elective care, across Calderdale and Huddersfield. Their mission is to provide high-quality, patient-centered care that improves health outcomes and ensures safety. Their purpose is to deliver excellent clinical services, enhance community well-being, and support continuous improvement and innovation in healthcare.

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Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Are you a newly qualified pharmacist or a pharmacist with experience outside of secondary care – this is the perfect role for you. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated qualified pharmacist to work in our team of Early Careers Pharmacists. You will be expected to value working in a team of Early Careers Pharmacists and the wider pharmacy and MDT team The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop a range of hospital pharmacy skills, with particular emphasis on patient-facing work. We run a progressive and innovative clinical pharmacy service where successful candidates will work cross-site at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and Calderdale Royal Hospital and will receive clinical experience in areas such as acute medicine, general medicine, respiratory, older peoples’ medicine, coronary care, paediatrics, intensive care and surgery. The postholder will also have the opportunity to work within particular areas of interest with experience available in dispensary services, aseptic production, medicines information, working within a discharge team, community services and ED. You will need to be able to manage your time, prioritise tasks effectively, be proactive and communicate well with your colleagues to ensure that we deliver an excellent service together as a team. How will we help you develop in your role? We will support you with an induction to the department, alongside a range of e-learning opportunities provided as part of your Trust training and development, and as part of our experienced team of Clinical Pharmacists you will have the opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills with support from your colleagues. There will be the opportunity to complete the University of Bradford Clinical Diploma starting in January 2025 (subject to HEE funding) Previous hospital experience is not essential, we welcome applications from driven pharmacists working in other sectors who would like to explore a career in secondary care. You will take part in our weekend and bank holiday rota. All posts in the organisation are subject to a probationary period. CHFT is a digitally advanced hospital trust - we use Cerner Millenium Electronic Patient record which includes electronic prescribing and administration. We have recently installed a pharmacy dispensing robot at our Calderdale site and are a trailblazing site with the introduction of electronic controlled drug registers (eCDR) which has lead to nomination for a HSJ award. For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lisa Hodgson Job title: Head of Clinical Pharmacy Email address: lisa.hodgson@cht.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07796786320

Are you a newly qualified pharmacist or a pharmacist with experience outside of secondary care – this is the perfect role for you.We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated qualified pharmacist to work in our team of Early Careers Pharmacists. You will be expected to value working in a team of Early Careers Pharmacists and the wider pharmacy and MDT teamThe successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop a range of hospital pharmacy skills, with particular emphasis on patient-facing work.We run a progressive and innovative clinical pharmacy service where successful candidates will work cross-site at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and Calderdale Royal Hospital and will receive clinical experience in areas such as acute medicine, general medicine, respiratory, older peoples’ medicine, coronary care, paediatrics, intensive care and surgery. The postholder will also have the opportunity to work within particular areas of interest with experience available in dispensary services, aseptic production, medicines information, working within a discharge team, community services and ED.You will need to be able to manage your time, prioritise tasks effectively, be proactive and communicate well with your colleagues to ensure that we deliver an excellent service together as a team.How will we help you develop in your role?We will support you with an induction to the department, alongside a range of e-learning opportunities provided as part of your Trust training and development, and as part of our experienced team of Clinical Pharmacists you will have the opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills with support from your colleagues. There will be the opportunity to complete the University of Bradford Clinical Diploma starting in January 2025 (subject to HEE funding)Previous hospital experience is not essential, we welcome applications from driven pharmacists working in other sectors who would like to explore a career in secondary care.You will take part in our weekend and bank holiday rota.All posts in the organisation are subject to a probationary period.CHFT is a digitally advanced hospital trust - we use Cerner Millenium Electronic Patient record which includes electronic prescribing and administration. We have recently installed a pharmacy dispensing robot at our Calderdale site and are a trailblazing site with the introduction of electronic controlled drug registers (eCDR) which has lead to nomination for a HSJ award.For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lisa Hodgson Job title: Head of Clinical Pharmacy Email address: lisa.hodgson@cht.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07796786320

Early Careers Pharmacist - Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

&lt;strong&gt;Are you a newly qualified pharmacist or a pharmacist with experience outside of secondary care – this is the perfect role for you.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated qualified pharmacist to work in our team of Early Careers Pharmacists. You will be expected to value working in a team of Early Careers Pharmacists and the wider pharmacy and MDT team&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The successful candidate will have the opportunity to develop a range of hospital pharmacy skills, with particular emphasis on patient-facing work.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We run a progressive and innovative clinical pharmacy service where successful candidates will work cross-site at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and Calderdale Royal Hospital and will receive clinical experience in areas such as acute medicine, general medicine, respiratory, older peoples’ medicine, coronary care, paediatrics, intensive care and surgery. The postholder will also have the opportunity to work within particular areas of interest with experience available in dispensary services, aseptic production, medicines information, working within a discharge team, community services and ED.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You will need to be able to manage your time, prioritise tasks effectively, be proactive and communicate well with your colleagues to ensure that we deliver an excellent service together as a team.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How will we help you develop in your role?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We will support you with an induction to the department, alongside a range of e-learning opportunities provided as part of your Trust training and development, and as part of our experienced team of Clinical Pharmacists you will have the opportunity to develop your knowledge and skills with support from your colleagues. There will be the opportunity to complete the University of Bradford Clinical Diploma starting in January 2025 (subject to HEE funding)&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Previous hospital experience is not essential, we welcome applications from driven pharmacists working in other sectors who would like to explore a career in secondary care.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You will take part in our weekend and bank holiday rota.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;All posts in the organisation are subject to a probationary period.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;CHFT is a digitally advanced hospital trust - we use Cerner Millenium Electronic Patient record which includes electronic prescribing and administration. We have recently installed a pharmacy dispensing robot at our Calderdale site and are a trailblazing site with the introduction of electronic controlled drug registers (eCDR) which has lead to nomination for a HSJ award.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lisa Hodgson Job title: Head of Clinical Pharmacy Email address: lisa.hodgson@cht.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07796786320

Early Careers Pharmacist

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