2025/86 Senior Pharmacist Specified Purpose, Full Time (35 hours per week
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Senior Pharmacist
Specified Purpose, Full Time (35 hours per week)
The Senior Pharmacist will work as part of a progressive and dynamic Pharmacy Team to ensure best outcomes for patients. The successful candidate will be an essential part of the pharmacy team, ensuring safe and effective use of medications. Close collaboration with the Pharmacy Team and Clinicians in relevant clinical areas is required. The Senior Pharmacist will play an important role in Clinical Pharmacy services, Quality Improvement initiatives, Departmental Meetings, medication-related reporting initiatives using MN-CMS and specific Medication Safety initiatives.
Details of Service
The Pharmacy Department supplies medicines within the hospital and provides medicines information and addresses queries on medication use. Services are provided to inpatients and outpatients.
The Main Services Include
* Clinical Pharmacy Services
* Health Informatics
* Medicines Information
* Antimicrobial Stewardship Service
* Medication Safety
* Clinical Trials/Research
* Education
* Dispensary service
Principal Duties And Responsibilities
* Work collaboratively with other members of the team to ensure that patient care is central to all activities of the Pharmacy Department.
* Participate in service delivery across all pharmacy services as part of a professional, punctual and dedicated team.
* Create, promote and maintain open communications and healthy working relationships.
* Maintain the principles of equity, accountability and quality of service in daily work.
* Work collaboratively with other Pharmacy Department and affiliated staff to develop and deliver pharmacy services, respecting the role of other pharmacists in ensuring safe and effective care.
* Carry out dispensary duties as required including purchase, storage and supply of medicines and related items ensuring quality and value for money.
* Work collaboratively with the Pharmacist Executive Manager and Pharmaceutical Technician Team to ensure that dispensary processes are optimized and balanced across the working week to ensure streamlined running of the dispensary in compliance with relevant legislation.
* Collaborate with the Pharmacy Team to ensure that all activities in the Pharmacy Department are in compliance with the Pharmacy Act 2007 and Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland standards.
* Collaborate with the Pharmacy Team to ensure that all activities in the Pharmacy Department comply with the Pharmacy Act 2007 and Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland standards.
* Work closely with the Pharmacy Executive Manager and the Pharmacy Team to help implement the hospital’s medication safety strategy.
* Integrate research into daily practice to generate an evidence base to inform safe and effective medication use in maternal, gynaecological and new born care.
* Participate in quality initiatives and the development and updating of policies, procedures and guidelines.
* Participate in the development of medication related reports from MN-CMS to generate intelligence to improve medication use processes and outcomes.
* Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability to change in particular in relation to strategic developments at local, regional & national level.
* Provide expert pharmaceutical advice on the use of medicines in the Rotunda Hospital in collaboration with the Pharmacy Team and clinical colleagues.
* Participate in the development and ongoing optimisation of IT resources, e.g. electronic prescribing clinical decision support, reporting functionality relevant to assigned clinical areas, electronic document management of policies, procedures and guidelines in order to optimise the use of medications in the Rotunda Hospital.
* Participate in feedback and audit mechanisms to the Pharmacy Executive Manager and the Drugs and Therapeutics and Medication Safety Committee structures. This will include facilitating the development of audit tools and models to enable the statistical analysis of defined prescribing guidelines as well as intervention and outcome analyses.
* Ensure that Departmental and Hospital strategic objectives are facilitated by communication between medical, nursing and pharmacy services.
* Ensure the cost effective use of medicines and appraise the Pharmacy Services Manager any proposed changes in practice likely to lead to significant changes in expenditure or purchasing patterns.
* Ensure that ongoing quality requirements in relation to Medication Safety are met in line with National Standards for Safer Better Health Care and HIQA Medication Safety recommendations.
* Maintain a safe working environment as set out in the Health and Safety at Work Act 2005.
* Undertake personal continuing education and training as necessary to maintain a high level of competency in carrying out the tasks required including keeping up-to-date with current clinical developments in pharmacy.
* Provide education as required to medical, nursing and pharmacy staff and students.
* Participate in the Rotunda Hospital staff development programme and ensure continued development to meet the demands of the service.
* Perform such other duties appropriate to the post as may be assigned from time to time by the Pharmacy Executive Manager or deputy.
Essential Qualifications And Experience
* Registered member of the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland or be entitled to be so registered.
* To have a recognized degree in Pharmacy.
* 3 years relevant post-registration experience.
Skills, Competencies And/or Knowledge
All candidates must::
* Demonstrate the requisite clinical and professional knowledge to carry out the duties and responsibilities of the role.
* Demonstrate evidence of organisation and management skills including awareness of resource management and importance of value for money and the financial issues related to medication management.
* Demonstrate the ability to manage and develop self and others in a busy working environment, including the ability to prioritise caseloads according to need.
* Demonstrate ability to manage deadlines and effectively handle multiple tasks.
* Demonstrate the ability to evaluate information, make effective decisions and solve problems especially with regard to service user care.
* Demonstrate commitment to providing a quality service and high standards and to strive for a user centred service.
* Demonstrate evidence of ability to empathise with and treat patients, relatives and colleagues with dignity and respect.
* Demonstrate effective communication skills (both written and oral) including: the ability to present information in a clear and concise manner; the ability to facilitate and manage groups through the learning process; the ability to give constructive feedback to encourage learning.
* Demonstrate awareness and appreciation of the service user.
* Demonstrate team management skills including the ability to work with multi-disciplinary team members.
* Demonstrate an excellent understanding of the needs of patients and of other hospital staff and work to ensure pharmacy services meets these needs as fully as possible.
* Demonstrate initiative and innovation in identifying and acting upon areas for service improvement.
* Demonstrate commitment to continuing professional development based on identified learning needs.
* Demonstrate awareness of the security and confidentiality considerations involved in working in a hospital pharmacy.
* Demonstrate a familiarity and understanding of the laws and regulations underpinning pharmacy service delivery.
* Demonstrate evidence of computer skills including use of Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook and other data analytic programmes.
Informal enquiries regarding this post should be addressed to Prof Brian Cleary
Pharmacist Executive Manager at bcleary@rotunda.ie.
Applications should be made via the Rotunda Hospital website and should include a current Curriculum Vitae to arrive not later than 3pm on Thursday 10th July 2025.
The Rotunda Hospital is an equal opportunity Employer.
Seniority level
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Mid-Senior level
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Hospitals and Health Care
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