Job Description

We are looking for enthusiastic and motivated pharmacists to join our team providing services at ward level and within the pharmacy department. The posts are fixed term for a period of 4 months (May to August 2025) You should be a keen learner, passionate about your clinical development and able to communicate well at all levels.



You will gain exposure and experience in a variety of clinical areas which may include general medicine, surgery, endocrinology, care of the elderly, fractured neck of femur, technical services and medicine information.



You will undertake a comprehensive induction programme within the pharmacy department when you join us to ensure you settle quickly into the role and department; this will include a general introduction to pharmacy at PAHT, completion of logs for checking, coordinating, medicine reconciliation, IP and TTA validation. You will have the opportunity to work and learn with experienced pharmacists on our acute assessment unit and frailty ward, whilst being supported throughout by our pharmacy education and training team and your line manager.



We actively support the development of our team to ensure they learn and grow with us.

As part of the Pharmacy team you will:

Work to provide a dispensary based Pharmacy service to select, dispense, validate and check- in-patient, out patient and discharge prescriptions as well as counselling patients



Take part in the provision of clinical services to all wards at Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust as well as other trusts to which pharmacy provide a service- monitor prescriptions at ward level as well as offer advice to Doctors, Nurses and other healthcare professionals



Provide support to our Medicine Information Service as well as our Technical Service Unit



Maintain registration, as a pharmacist, with the General Pharmaceutical Council, and to act in accordance with the code of ethics.



Our Organisation



The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop's Stortford, and St Margaret's Hospital in Epping.



We employ 3,500 staff and serve a local population of around 350,000 people living in west Essex and east Hertfordshire, centred on the M11 corridor and the towns of Harlow, Bishop's Stortford and Epping. Our extended catchment area incorporates a population of up to 500,000 and includes the areas of Hoddesdon, Cheshunt and Broxbourne in Hertfordshire.



Our Values



The Princess Alexandra Promise to our patients as identified by our 3 values which will contribute to improving our patient experiences:



Patient at heart - Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts



Everyday excellence - Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both



Creative collaboration - Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care



The Trust believes in investing in all our staff and rewarding high standards of care whilst building for excellence and in return we expect our staff to uphold the Trust values to the highest level.



For further details, please refer to the attached job description and person specification, which is available to download at any time.