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Foundation Pharmacist Posts Midlands

Last Updated: June 2020

Foundation Pharmacist Posts Midlands

This document is intended to provide more information about the hospital and multisector placements coupled with hospital available in the West Midlands & East Midlands and provide a point of contact.

This information is provided up to 14 months in advance of the foundation year start date, to complement the National Recruitment Scheme (via Oriel) and to enable applicants to make informed choices. Please note that training plans may change due to circumstances beyond the employers’ control or in response to feedback and evaluation. However, all programmes will meet the required GPhC learning outcomes, guidance, and regulations, in addition to the HEE Quality Framework.

HEE Foundation Programme Employers

Regional Page STP Area training Number provider Birmingham and Solihull - STP Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust TBC 4 Birmingham Women’s and Children's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust TBC 5 Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, part of University Hospitals TBC 6 Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospitals, part of University TBC 7 Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust TBC 8

Coventry and Warwickshire - STP George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust TBC 9 South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust TBC 10 University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust TBC 11

Derbyshire - STP Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust TBC 12 Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust with Royal Primary TBC 13 Care University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust - Royal TBC 14 Derby Hospital

Herefordshire and Worcestershire - STP Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust TBC 15 Wye Valley NHS Trust TBC 16

Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland - STP University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust TBC 17

Lincolnshire - STP United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust – Lincoln County Hospital TBC 18 United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust - Pilgrim Hospital TBC 19 TBC Northamptonshire - STP Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust TBC 20 Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust with Lakeside Healthcare TBC 21 Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust TBC 22

Nottinghamshire - STP Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust TBC 23 Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust TBC 24

Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin- STP The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust TBC 25

Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation TBC 26 Trust

Staffordshire - STP University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust - TBC 27 Burton Hospital University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust TBC 28

The Black Country - STP Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust TBC 29 The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust TBC 30 The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust TBC 31 Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust TBC 32

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

The Pharmacy Department. Moseley Hall Professional Development Hospital. Alcester Road. Birmingham, Pharmacist B13 8JL Aman Basra Birmingham Community Email: [email protected] Healthcare/Birmingham/B13 8JL Tel: 0121 466 4395 Website: https://www.bhamcommunity.NHS.uk

and Palliative Care and a regional specialist Neurological Rehabilitation Ward. We also have three Intermediate Care Units which support rehabilitation of patients before they are discharged. In addition, you will shadow key allied healthcare professionals in community based services such as Multiple Sclerosis clinic, Physiotherapy and Pain Service. If you join us, you will gain a greater understanding of how to care for patients in Hospital and the community. You will enjoy your experience due to the breadth of opportunities on offer, allowing you to feel The Trust confident knowing you will become a Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Pharmacist with a solid foundation to help Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 you navigate your career path. staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of Community Nursing and Specialist Healthcare roles. BCHC delivers The Training Programme over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, Our Pharmacy departments in Moseley Hall health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. Hospital and West Heath Hospital offer a We deliver a wide range of services for children, comprehensive training programme, young people, parents and families as well as structured on the GPhC Pre-registration adults and community services, two community Pharmacist performance standards. The hospitals, Her Majesty’s Prison Service, programmes are tailored to each Pre- services for people with learning disabilities, the registration Pharmacist with tutor and mentor internationally recognised West Midlands support and are designed to increase the Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s trainee’s responsibilities throughout the year, leading Dental Hospitals and School of so that they will be ready to work as Dentistry. competent and confident clinical Pharmacists by the end of the year. The Role of Pharmacy We are a Community NHS Foundation Trust offering a unique type of Pre-Registration Pharmacist experience. The Trust provides a unique combination of care settings compromising of Community Hospitals coupled with services delivered within the community. You will spend time at two Hospitals specialising in Elderly Care, Stroke, Dementia

Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust

Birmingham Children’s Hospital, Steelhouse Lane, Education and Training Pharmacist: Birmingham, West Midlands, B4 6NH Tayebah Abbasi

Oriel Programme name: Birmingham Children’s Hospital Email: [email protected]

Website: https://bwc.nhs.uk/ Tel: 0121 333 9786

There are numerous clinical attachments to specialist areas such as liver, medicine, cardiology, oncology which reflect the specialisms at each training site to give a well-rounded clinical programme.

As part of the training package trainees are encouraged to be involved in a wide range of activities including, audits, medicine safety, interaction with healthcare professionals including The Trust non-medical prescribers, education and training of The Trust consists of two sites; Birmingham patients, families, staff and undergraduate Children’s Hospital and Birmingham Women’s students. Hospital. The base site for training will be

Birmingham Children’s Hospital. External training sites may be used for those services or specialisms which are not found at the Birmingham Children’s Hospital is one of the training base such as medicine information, leading paediatric teaching centres in the women’s and neonatal and adult patient care. country, with international research and

development in areas such as childhood cancer, Community pharmacy placements are incorporated liver disease, inherited metabolic diseases and into the foundation year. The choice of premises for kidney disease and we are centre of excellence the cross-sector training is considered on an for children with cancer, cardiac, liver and renal individual level with trainee preference taken into disease. account.

The Role of Pharmacy In addition to the training rotations trainees are supported by both a regional and in-house tutorial The Birmingham Children’s Hospital Pharmacy programme. Other opportunities to learn include department provides services to all medical and pharmacy staff training sessions, medical grand surgical teams and are responsible for rounds and hospital lectures on specialist topics. managing patients' medicines while in hospital. Organised into clinical teams of Pharmacists, What our trainees say Technicians and Assistants, the pharmacy teams work closely with Doctors and Nurses to “This year has been enjoyable and has hugely ensure medicines prescribed for patients are developed my ability to practice as a competent safe and effective. Specialist teams within the pharmacist. I appreciate all the efforts of all members of department provide intravenous nutrition the department who have been happy to help with any solutions and chemotherapy tailored to the questions along the way.” specific needs of individual children. “I’m definitely grateful for the many clinical placements we had! We have rotated onto nearly all of the wards in The Training Programme the hospital and I think this has been such good experience.” Trainees rotate through a comprehensive training programme covering a wide range of hospital pharmacy services including; dispensary services, mental health, medicine information and out-patients pharmacy. 5

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation

Trust - Queen Elizabeth Hospital

The Pharmacy Department. Queen Elizabeth Pre-registration Manager: Hospital. Nuffield House, Mindelsohn Way, Gaenor Feelie Birmingham B15 2GW Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.uhb.nhs.uk Tel: 0121 424 9299

The Trust The Training Programme Our training programme has a strong emphasis Following a merge of two adjacent Trusts in on clinical pharmacy and offers a structured and 2018, UHB is one of the largest acute trusts in varied training year with a high level of support England, providing secondary and tertiary from individual tutors and clinical pharmacists. healthcare to a range of patient demographics. Following a comprehensive department and Trust With more than 2,700 beds, we treat over 2.2 induction, foundation trainees will rotate through million patients a year. a comprehensive training programme covering a The Trust consists of four hospitals: Queen wide range of hospital pharmacy services Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, covered in this including dispensary services, cancer services entry, and Birmingham Heartlands, Good Hope and clinical trials and medicines information. and Solihull Hospitals, covered in a separate The extensive clinical programme links with the entry. numerous specialist areas such as liver medicine, cardiology, oncology etc. Two weeks The Role of Pharmacy are spent at Heartlands Hospital to gain experience of paediatric and neonatal medicine. The pharmacy team across the four sites is over The Trust promotes involvement in clinical 330-strong, a third of which are pharmacists, practice at an early stage and as part of the with a friendly, supportive culture and is a training package trainees are encouraged to be dynamic growing part of the Trust offering a involved with all aspects of a patient’s care, wide variety of services, activities and roles with including interaction with other healthcare close links with all clinical services and professionals and observation of interventional dedicated clinical pharmacists working closely procedures and surgery. The clinical training with each specialty. Our focus, as with the Trust, programme is supported by the in-house tutorial is evidence-based, safe and cost-effective use programme which uses case studies and peer of medicines. learning. The foundation pharmacist clinical As well as clinical ward services, the pharmacy programme at UHB acts as a bridge to the team provide other services including medicines clinical diploma programme that hospital information, aseptic reconstitution, pharmacists enter upon qualification. radiopharmaceuticals and a number of Training will also include a week with the local pharmacist-led clinics as well as being part of Mental Health Trust, regional study days and in- large clinical trials departments. house tutorials. Other experiences available to We work with homecare and recovery at home trainees include visiting nurse and pharmacist-led services, helping to meet the care needs of clinics and cardiac rehabilitation. patients. Community pharmacy placements are We encourage streamlined and LEAN working, incorporated into the foundation year. The choice and our use of technology includes electronic of premises for the cross-sector training is prescribing and medicines administration considered on an individual level, with trainee systems and the use of robot technology to preference taken into account.

dispense medications in a number of our What our trainees say dispensaries. Our outpatient pharmacies are During my pre-reg at UHB I always felt very supported from the also licensed to sell OTC products to the public. beginning. The department is really friendly and approachable which made it so much easier to settle in and ask questions. There is a wide range of rotations including an offsite to mental health rotation which meant that I learnt so much during my year. The pre-reg tutors were so helpful and made sure that we had the opportunity to complete all our competencies. I would definitely recommend pre- reg at UHB to future pharmacists! 6

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust - Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospitals oodhope The Pharmacy Department. Heartlands, Good Education and Training Pharmacist: Hope and Solihull Hospitals, Bordesley Green Gaenor Feelie East, Birmingham. B5 9SS Email: [email protected]

Website: https://www.uhb.nhs.uk Tel: 0121 424 9299

The Trust The Training Programme Following a merge of two adjacent Trusts in Our training programme has a strong emphasis on 2018, UHB is one of the largest acute trusts in clinical pharmacy and offers a structured and England, providing secondary and tertiary varied training year with a high level of support healthcare to a range of patient demographics. from individual tutors and clinical pharmacists. With more than 2700 beds we treat over 2.2 Foundation trainees will spend six months each on million patients a year. two different sites and experience a range of The Trust consists of four hospitals: Birmingham clinical areas including cardiology, surgery, critical Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospitals, care, neonates and paediatrics, endocrinology, covered in this entry, and Queen Elizabeth infectious diseases, haematology and acute Hospital Birmingham covered in a separate entry. medicine to name but a few, working to achieve the set objectives under the supervision of the The Role of Pharmacy pharmacy team. Other highlights include The pharmacy team across the four sites is over medicines information, mental health, cancer 330-strong, a third of which are pharmacists, with services, clinical trials, patient counselling, clinical a friendly, supportive culture. It is a dynamic, pharmacy with ward rounds and project work. growing part of the Trust, offering a wide variety Training will also include a two-week cross-sector of services, activities and roles with close links to placement with a community pharmacy, a week all clinical services with dedicated clinical with the local Mental Health Trust, regional study pharmacists working closely with each specialty. days and in-house tutorials. Other experiences Our focus, as with the Trust, is evidence-based, available to trainees include visiting nurse and safe and cost-effective use of medicines. pharmacist-led clinics and cardiac rehabilitation. As well as clinical ward services, the pharmacy There is emphasis on clinical training with team provide other services including medicines increasing responsibilities throughout the year and information, aseptic reconstitution, there are opportunities to spend time with and radiopharmaceuticals and a number of learn from pharmacist specialists as well as other pharmacist-led clinics as well as being part of health care professionals throughout the Trust. large clinical trials departments. We work with homecare and recovery at home services, What our trainees say helping to meet the care needs of patients. We encourage streamlined and LEAN working, Pre-registration training can be very daunting, however the support I received at UHB was impeccable. The and our use of technology includes electronic pharmacy team is both friendly and welcoming and I felt prescribing and medicines administration like I was challenged in order for me to develop. The systems and the use of robot technology to various specialities across the trust allowed me to dispense medications in a number of our experience different disciplines and helped me dispensaries. Our outpatient pharmacies are also understand complex clinical scenarios and I felt very licensed to sell OTC products to the public. confident for my exam. I would recommend UHB to any future pre-registration pharmacist, I would not have wanted to complete my training anywhere else!

Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Trust

Birmingham & Solihull Mental Health Foundation Education and Training Trust Pharmacist: Nigel Barnes/Graeme Address Central Pharmacy, Venture House, Gate Brown D Fentham Road, Erdington, Birmingham B23 6AL Email: [email protected] or

[email protected] Website: https://www.bsmhft.nhs.uk/

Tel: 0121 301 5184

The Trust Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS The Training Programme Foundation Trust provides mental health care to This training placement will offer a foundation those people living in Birmingham and Solihull who programme covering ten months split equally are experiencing mental health problems. between mental health and community pharmacy with two months split between community pharmacy and primary care. The trainee will gain a broad We serve a culturally and socially diverse population experience in community pharmacy and mental of over a million spread over 172 square miles, and health pharmacy complemented by have an income of over £230 million, making our projects/experience in a GP practice. You will be Trust one of the largest mental health foundation supported by a range of pharmacy professionals to trusts in the country. We also provide services to be ready to pass the foundation pharmacist people who live further afield because of some of the specialised services we provide. examination and to be a highly competent pharmacist ready for any field of pharmacy practice. In addition, you will have significant Our Trust has over 4000 dedicated staff who are knowledge and experience of mental health continually working to help people get better and pharmacy that can be applied in a specialist service challenge the stigma associated with mental illness. in other sectors of pharmacy practice. Our Trust operates from over 50 sites in a variety of settings, from community based mental health teams through to acute wards and day centres. What our trainees say “This is the first year that the trust has formally provided The Role of Pharmacy foundation pharmacist training. We have had a large The trusts pharmacy services provide medicines and number of foundation pharmacist trainees rotate through ward based services for over 100 wards/teams. This our pharmacy service over many years with often includes inpatients (intensive care, acute and non- excellent feedback.” acute), forensic, forensic CAMHS, home treatment, assertive outreach, day units, and community mental health. The trust is currently rolling out electronic prescribing across the trust.

There are 4 pharmacies split across 3 sites. Central Pharmacy and Summerhill Pharmacy are based at Venture House in Erdington, Reaside pharmacy supplies medication to forensic services across the trust and HMP pharmacy supplies medication to Winson Green Prison.

George Eliot Hospital (GEH) NHS Trust

The Pharmacy Department. Education and Training Pharmacist: George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust Veronica Quarton College Street, Nuneaton, CV10 7DJ Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.geh.nhs.uk/directory-of- services/specialties-and-services/p/pharmacy/ Tel: 02476 865083

The Training Programme

Our 12 month training programme provides the opportunity to work in a busy acute trust offering a wide range of specialities including paediatrics, A&E, intensive care, coronary care, neurology and oncology. During your rotations you will have the chance to speak to patients, attend clinics and join the ward round. We have created a dedicated foundation pharmacist training pack which will act as a guide to the different specialist rotations as well as a portfolio to document your The Trust ward-based achievements. In our lively inpatient George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust provides a dispensary and outpatient pharmacy you will become proficient in dispensing, accuracy range of elective, emergency, surgical, medical, checking and patient counselling. Our education women’s, children’s, diagnostic and therapeutic and training pharmacist will support you services to a population of more than 300,000 people. throughout the year and facilitate external placements in mental health, medicines information, aseptics and community pharmacy. The 300-bed George Eliot hospital in Nuneaton We have recently established links with a offers services to a large area including north Primary Care Network pharmacist who is keen to Warwickshire, south west Leicestershire, and offer a placement in a local GP surgery. This is north Coventry. The hospital opened in 1948 and an exciting opportunity to experience the has since had several areas of development pharmacist’s role in what is a rapidly growing including a dedicated education centre (GETEC) sector. with excellent library facilities, simulation suite, a clinical skills centre, seminar rooms and a lecture theatre. What our trainees say

“GEH is a great place to complete your pre- The Role of Pharmacy registration year as it provides a supportive learning environment. The staff are very friendly and are Our friendly pharmacy team form a dynamic and always willing to help.” growing part of the trust with a shared vision to ensure safe, timely and cost-effective prescribing “George Eliot is a close knit, friendly community that and supply of medication to the inpatients of always go above and beyond to care for their patients. George Eliot Hospital. The ward-based team, The hospital shares the same core values that including Medicines Management Technicians, inspires me to become the best health care strive to ensure that our patients continue to be professional I can be.” at the centre of everything we do. The pharmacy “My Pre-Reg year at GEH was a wonderful experience department is located in the maternity building with lots of opportunities to develop my clinical and is home to a modern dispensary with a fully knowledge and skill set in a friendly and supportive integrated robot. environment.”

South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust The Pharmacy Department. Warwick Education and Training Pharmacist: Louise Hospital, Lakin Road, Warwick, CV34 5BW Farrimond Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.swft.nhs.uk/ Tel: 01926 495321 ext. 4003

The Trust The Training Programme At SWFT, working in partnership with Arden South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust (SWFT) is PCN, we pride ourselves on providing an a CQC rated outstanding Trust, whose patients exciting, comprehensive, flexible training recommend it more often than almost any other UK package. The role of the pharmacist is Trust. The pharmacy department has links with Arden continuously evolving and this programme PCN which allows Foundation Trainee Pharmacists to embraces this, covering all aspects of hospital pharmacy and offering the opportunity to gain gain experience of working within general practice in experience of working within general practice. addition to hospital pharmacy. The programme provides opportunities to meet Based in Warwick, the Trust serves over 600 in- all of the GPhC performance standards. It patient beds, plus community and palliative care enables Foundation Trainee Pharmacists to nurses and clinics in the rural Warwickshire develop their knowledge, professional responsibility and develop a broader skill set in community. We cover a wide range of medical and aspects such as transfer of care and supporting surgical specialties as a general hospital and are a service delivery. Regional or National Centre of excellence for some. Rotations include; in and out-patient dispensary, The Trust is small enough to be friendly and clinical trials and medicines management. manageable, but large enough to offer variety of work, Clinical ward pharmacy experience will be and experience of clinical advance. obtained in all of the main therapeutic areas. In addition, Foundation Trainee Pharmacists will The Role of Pharmacy participate in audit and project work and gain experience of medicines information, The friendly pharmacy team provides its services from antimicrobial stewardship, cancer services and a bright, modern department including dispensary, aseptic production, medicines optimisation in out-patient department and a busy aseptics unit. The addition to many other aspects of pharmacy. department provides an extensive clinical service to Trainees will attend regional and local study the wards and the community. The clinical service days, weekly clinical meetings and complete first provided to the wards is based upon a team approach aid training. involving medicines management technicians and pharmacists. The aim is to provide a comprehensive What our trainees say clinical service and assist with the discharge process whilst maintaining safe, effective and compassionate “My pre-registration year at SWFT gave me a thorough and well-rounded knowledge base to draw care at all times. The Foundation Trainee Pharmacists from for future practice. It was a fantastic opportunity are valued members of the pharmacy team and as the to learn from a variety of experienced pharmacists and year progresses play an integral role within the ward- boost both my own competence but also my based teams and the wider service provided. confidence as a clinical pharmacist.”

Each Foundation Trainee Pharmacist will have their "My pre-registration training at Warwick was own Tutor to help support them through the year in excellent... The team are friendly and welcoming, addition to named supervisors for each rotation to and the strong network of support was really help them achieve objectives and answer questions. helpful. The training year was immersive, allowing me The Foundation Trainee Pharmacists are well to work on many wards through different specialties. It supported by an experienced team at all times. set me up well for a career as a pharmacist."

University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust

Education and training Pharmacist The Pharmacy Department. UHCW NHS Trust. Jaime Miks Clifford Bridge Road, Coventry, CV2 2DX Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.uhcw.nhs.uk/ Tel: 02476 966791

given the opportunity to experience and participate fully in all areas. We have a team of approachable, experienced tutors who support the Foundation pharmacists with early responsibility and work to tailor the Foundation experience to each student. Alongside our tutors we have a number of staff acting as mentors who have experienced Foundation life at UHCW themselves, working to provide a supportive, dynamic training environment.

The Training Programme The Trust We offer a structured but flexible clinical University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire programme that aims to cover all areas, NHS Trust (UHCW) based in Coventry and the including specialties such as paediatrics, Hospital of St Cross in Rugby. We are a large oncology, and cardiology. Trainees gain Acute Teaching Hospital of approximately 1200 clinical and ward experience with specialist beds and 8000 staff located at a PFI hospital, pharmacists from the outset, also working which opened in 2006, situated just off junction 2 through rotations such as Medicines of the M6 and M69. Information, clinical trials, aseptics and dispensary services. We like to build on the We are a specialist centre for stroke, cardiac experiences throughout the year to help the services and a renal transplant centre. Together trainees gain the skills required to become a with other specialities, these support us as a confident and competent pharmacist. regional Major Trauma Centre. Alongside your clinical work we support experience in CCG, care homes and a Our Vision is to be a national and international community cross sector placement to round off leader in healthcare. Our Mission is to Care, your experience. We encourage you to look for Achieve and innovate. any opportunity to learn and develop and encourage attendance at CPPE events. The Role of Pharmacy

We are a large, friendly department with around What our trainees say 170 staff including 50 pharmacists. Pharmacist “Pre reg at UHCW has been a really exciting led clinics, prescribing and ward-based pharmacy experience so far, I’ve had very supportive tutors technician services are well established, with an that have helped me in areas I’ve struggled with emphasis on clinical pharmacy services. and encouraged me for parts of the pre reg I’ve looked forward to. I’ve had the chance to experience a variety of different clinical situations Foundation pharmacists are fully integrated as and see how I can contribute to pharmaceutical valued members of the department and will be and clinical care for patients as a pharmacist”.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Pharmacy Department, Chesterfield Royal Hospital, Calow, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. S44 5BL Trainee Pharmacist Training Website: https://www.chesterfieldroyal-ahpstudents.com/pharmacy Co-ordinator https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk Debora Gamble

Accommodation: https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk/work-us/hospital- Email: [email protected] accommodation Tel: 01246 512159

its workforce for the benefit of patients. Examples of this include the development of pharmacist-led clinics, dedicated ward pharmacist working, cross-sector roles, medicine administration technicians and a variety of multi-disciplinary team working initiatives; we currently have one of the highest numbers of independent pharmacist prescribers in the country who provide direct patient care using their prescribing skills.

The Training Programme The Trust The pre-registration training programme has been As North Derbyshire's only acute district general designed to facilitate the transition from student to hospital, with approximately 550 inpatient beds, we clinical practitioner in all aspects of hospital are responsible for providing care and treatment to pharmacy practice. We aim to provide an more than 400,000 people who live in our environment with a strong clinical emphasis and communities. We provide a full range of acute focus on direct patient care whilst providing services across the specialities of surgery, medicine, personalised support to pre-registration trainee accident and emergency, paediatrics, oncology and pharmacists. The rotational programme covers a critical care plus GP and primary care services. wide range of therapeutics and medicine With our ‘Proud to Care’ values we are committed to management areas including medical specialities, providing the best possible care for our patients and emergency care, oncology, surgery, critical care invest extensively in new services, technologies and and paediatrics. Medicines Information training is facilities. also included plus a short placement in GP practice. Trainees benefit from working with a The Role of Pharmacy variety of healthcare professionals including our Our modern, pro-active, and forward-thinking large cohort of pharmacist prescribers. Flexibility pharmacy department employs around 130 staff , also allows time to revisit or experience areas of including forty hospital-based pharmacists, and interest. comprises a large, well established clinical pharmacy service, automated technician-led dispensary, For more information and to view an example dedicated outpatient pharmacy and a recently programme timetable see our AHP student refurbished aseptics unit; we also have electronic website. prescribing throughout the hospital. As a department What our trainees say we pride ourselves on working as a team, ‘For me, the Trust is a really nice size for a pre-registration collaborating and integrating with colleagues across year - it's big enough to see a wide range of clinical services, the Trust to ensure the safe, appropriate and cost- which the training programme thoroughly covers, but effective use of medicines for our patients. it's small enough to have a close knit feel. I can honestly say that the pharmacy team at Chesterfield are some of the loveliest people I have met. I feel very well supported and it The department encourages innovation and is is a hospital in which I would love to build my career’ passionate about expanding the roles and abilities of 12

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

with Royal Primary Care

Pharmacy Department, Chesterfield Royal Hospital, Calow, Chesterfield, Derbyshire. S44 5BL

Website: https://www.chesterfieldroyal-ahpstudents.com/pharmacy Trainee Pharmacist https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk Training Co-ordinator Debora Gamble Accommodation: https://www.chesterfieldroyal.nhs.uk/work-us/hospital- accommodation Email: [email protected] Tel: 01246 512159 Royal Primary Care Chesterfield website: https://rpcchesterfield.co.uk Royal Primary Care Clay Cross website: https://www.rpcclaycross.co.uk

The Trust The Training Programme Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is an This training programme is designed to develop clinical acute district general hospital with approximately 550 practitioners with the experience and skills to work across inpatient beds. We provide a full range of acute services healthcare settings. including a 24-hour emergency department, medical and surgical specialities, paediatrics and critical care plus GP At Royal Primary Care, trainees will have the opportunity and primary care services. With our ‘Proud to Care’ to work alongside a range of healthcare professionals. values we are committed to providing the best possible They will gain an in-depth understanding of how care for our patients. pharmacy colleagues as part of the multidisciplinary team work together to care for its patients. Training will cover Royal Primary Care is part of the Trust and operates as a variety of areas including medicines reconciliation, the Division of Primary Care. It comprises several GP optimisation and review work, patient consultation practices across eight sites in Chesterfield and Clay Cross experience, medicines information provision plus a and provides primary care services to around 54,000 quality improvement project. In order to ensure stability patients. and continuity of learning, trainees will be based at one or two GP Practice sites alongside their allocated primary This is a split post with seven months of the training taking care tutor but will be able to take advantage of expertise place at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and five months spent across the other sites within Royal Primary Care to with Royal Primary Care. enhance learning.

The Role of Pharmacy At Chesterfield Royal Hospital training covers a range of Our modern pharmacy department employs around 130 specialities including medicine, surgery, paediatrics, staff, including forty hospital-based pharmacists and six emergency care and dispensary. Throughout both GP Practice pharmacists. As a department we pride sectors we aim to provide an environment with a strong ourselves on working as a team, collaborating and clinical emphasis and focus on direct patient-centred care integrating with colleagues across the Trust to ensure the whilst providing personalised support to trainees. safe, appropriate and cost-effective use of medicines for our patients. For more information and to view an example programme timetable see our AHP student website. The department encourages innovation and is passionate about expanding the roles and abilities of its workforce for the benefit of patients. Examples of this include the What our trainees say development of pharmacist-led clinics, dedicated ward ‘The department is very welcoming and friendly, which makes the pre-reg year so much more enjoyable’ pharmacist working, cross-sector roles, medicine administration technicians and a variety of multidisciplinary team working initiatives; we currently have one of the highest numbers of independent pharmacist prescribers in the country who provide direct patient care using their prescribing skills.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS

Foundation Trust – Royal Derby Hospital

Pharmacy Department, Royal Derby Hospital, Uttoxeter Road, Derby DE22 3NE Education and Training Pharmacist Sophia Feret

Website: Email: [email protected] https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/education-pharmacy- training Tel: 01332 789959

The Trust The Training Programme Our Trust was formed on 1st July 2018 joining The Royal Derby Hospital offers an exciting and our five hospitals to provide the highest quality comprehensive programme focusing on preparation care to patients across southern Derbyshire and for clinical practice. Alongside key medical, surgical south east Staffordshire. and paediatric specialities, trainees will also gain We aim to deliver outstanding care for local experience in neonatal medicine, critical care, people as we bring together the expertise of our oncology, antimicrobials and mental health. This is 12,000 staff. The Trust supports two foundation supported by multi-disciplinary team shadowing and programmes: one at Royal Derby Hospital and cross sector rotations. All trainees’ complete one at Queen’s Hospital, Burton (listed validations in medicines reconciliation, dispensing, separately). accuracy checking and aseptics so that they can practice independently in these areas. Our unique The Role of Pharmacy tutoring system provides trainees with both a deputy Our aim is to deliver consistent, high quality, tutor and a lead tutor. The deputy tutor provides safe, patient-focused interventions for better care one-to-one support and meets with trainees every and better value. We do this at the Royal Derby 1-2 weeks to assist with objectives and evidence. Hospital by providing a 24/7 on-site service The lead tutor is an experienced education operated by shift-working pharmacists and pharmacist who meets with all trainees monthly and technicians; by ensuring our state-of-the-art will carry out all appraisals. The programme facilities utilise technologies such as automated provides its own seminars in a designated study slot robotic dispensing, and by having specialist one afternoon each week. Some of these slots pharmacists embedded in clinical teams to involve the trainee attending teaching provided by promote safe, effective and economic the department’s education and training team to prescribing, delivering medicines information and medical students, and some are run for the support to our patients. foundation students by specialist pharmacists working for the Trust. We are continually pleased by Our teams operate from bespoke pharmacy the excellent feedback we receive from trainees about our programme. satellites which undertake a variety of roles, including medicines management, aseptic Please visit our website for further information production, and chemotherapy preparation. including sample timetables.

Improving medicines management is highest What our trainees say priority for the department. Having introduced “Good support through the mentor system.” electronic prescribing, we can offer trainees a “Very friendly atmosphere and good variety of chance to complete their foundation year in an rotations.” innovative environment. We are always “The team is really supportive, I always got included developing our services, therefore we are looking as part of the team.” for talented individuals who can add value to the “Teaching with medical students is really helpful” care we provide, grow with our team and share in “Good balance of support and independence.” our ongoing success. 14

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust

UnitedPharmacy Department,Lincolnshire Worcestershire Hospitals Royal Hospital NHS TrustLead Pre-Reg Tutor (WRH), Charles Hastings Way, Worcester, WR5 1DD/ Caroline Gibson Pharmacy Department, Alexandra Hospital (AH), Email: Woodrow Drive, Redditch, B98 7UB [email protected] Oriel Programme name: Tel: 01527 503030 Worcestershire Acute Hospitals/Worcestershire/WR5 (extension 44272) 1DD Website: http://www.worcsacute.nhs.uk/

including cardiology, respiratory, haematology, and gastroenterology; and we have a highly skilled team of critical care and surgical pharmacists undertaking nutrition and TPN rounds, and providing a clinical service to trauma and orthopaedics, urology, vascular surgery and ITU. Our pharmacists are actively integrated within the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to provide patient centred care.

The Training Programme Pre-registration trainees are based at either AH or WRH with the opportunity to rotate between sites The Trust to experience the full range of pharmaceutical WAHT provides a wide range of services from 3 services provided including Medicines main sites – the AH in Redditch, Kidderminster Information, Women and Children’s, Aseptics, and Hospital & Treatment Centre, and WRH in cross sector placement. A comprehensive Worcester. The Trust is undergoing significant countywide pre-registration training programme is expansion with the opening of the new oncology offered in all aspects of hospital pharmacy which and renal units, implementation of the geriatric will include ward based clinical teaching from emergency medicine team (GEM’s) and week 2, and the opportunity to attend pharmacist expansion of the A&E department and MAU at led HIV and rheumatology clinics. Priority is given WRH to an “emergency village”. within the year to consolidating clinical training through weekly tutorials, bedside teaching, The Role of Pharmacy managing your own patient allocation and ward We are an innovative forward thinking and round attendance. Clinical rotations include friendly department, employing around 180 staff. Speciality Medicine, Surgery, Urgent Care and The majority of our 3 year plus post-registration Women & Children’s; to provide the opportunity for pharmacists are prescriber’s and routinely trainees to learn from specialist pharmacists and prescribe in practice on the ward rounds. We MDT’s. The training programme is structured and pride ourselves on our high standards of fully mapped to the GPhC performance standards, education & training and commitment to staff and but allows sufficient flexibility to enable individual service development. We are also a training learning needs to be met. Trainee development is provider for University of Birmingham and have further supported by a team of approachable, strong links with the School of Pharmacy. We experienced pre-registration tutors, teacher have a highly developed ward-based Medicines practitioners and a mentoring scheme to ease the Optimisation service, with pharmacy technicians transition from student to practitioner. and pharmacists performing extended roles to deliver pharmaceutical care at the bedside, What our trainees say including a pioneering 7/7 A&E pharmacist “My pre-registration year at WAHT has given me a practitioner service, and 7 Pharmacist Advanced solid foundation to build my career and a well-rounded Clinical Practitioners (ACP’s) who clerk and treat clinical knowledge. I became part of a friendly patients within Ambulatory Emergency Care, 15 encouraging team and I am glad to be staying on here GEM, Oncology and Diabetes. Our pharmacists as a qualified pharmacist.” undertake ward rounds in speciality medicine

Wye Valley NHS Trust

The Pharmacy Department Education and Training Lead – Medical Division: Hereford County Hospital Susan Vaughan Union Street Hereford Email: [email protected] HR1 2ER Tel: 01432 355444

Website https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/

The Trust Full time hospital programme (2 This is one of the smallest acute trusts in trainee posts) England, with approximately 250 beds on site. Patient numbers are increasing and a new ‘Frailty specialist ward area’ is being developed. The trainees will undertake a series of rotations Other areas of investment within the Trust including dispensary, medical and surgical wards, include IT with the roll out of the Electronic AMU, medicines information, technical services Patient Record and Electronic Prescribing. and specialist wards, as well as experience The Trust consists of the County Hospital in community pharmacy and spend time with Hereford, and three community hospitals. The specialist/non-medical prescribing pharmacists. Trust’s core values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence underpin Integrated Primary Care Foundation all we do to provide care for the patients of Programme (1 trainee post) Herefordshire and Powys. From 2021/22, we are offering an exciting new The Role of Pharmacy programme encompassing both the acute hospital A friendly and highly respected department, and Primary Care settings. Based at Hereford pharmacy employs around 90 staff and invests hospital, trainees will experience the hospital heavily in the training and development. programme above, as well as GP practice, where Ward based pharmacy teams undertake the trainee will undertake a range of activities, medicines reconciliations, promote safe and including supervised conduction of acute/chronic effective medicines use, and complete disease clinics, answer medication queries and discharges at ward level. We are developing a reconcile medicines following transfer of care. “front of house team” to work in our acute admissions areas, and in the ED. We have specialist pharmacists in rheumatology, What our trainees say oncology, Women’s and Children’s services and ITU. A large technical services unit supports out “I thoroughly enjoyed my pre-registration year at busy Cancer Treatment Unit. Hereford County Hospital, I was able to gain There is an active social scene, including various experience in a wide variety of areas including ITU and meals out and social activities such as netball aseptic manufacturing. A structured timetable was provided which allowed me to efficiently complete my matches and Cyber Q Escape Rooms. competencies. The pharmacy department is incredibly friendly and supportive. I would highly recommend The Training Programme working at the trust.” We offer a comprehensive training programme, structured on the GPhC performance standards, “The department is really friendly, and everyone is designed to increase the trainee’s responsibilities always willing to help me learn and achieve.” throughout the year, to make competent and confident clinical pharmacists by the end of the year. Our trainees participate in the West Midlands Training Scheme and attend the 16 regionally coordinated activities including study days and first aid training.

University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

Pharmacy Department. Leicester Royal Infirmary, Infirmary Square, Leicester LE1 5WW Pre-registration Training Facilitator Oriel Programme names: Rachel Love University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust (+ East Leicester Medical Practice – 1 post) Email:[email protected] Website: www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk Tel: 01162585781 Accommodation: [email protected]

The Training Programme We offer a comprehensive programme providing structured clinical training across our many specialities. Trainee pharmacists also gain experience within the dispensary, Medicines Information, aseptics, mental health and The Trust community pharmacy. One of our posts replaces some hospital rotations with 13 weeks at East We are one of the largest teaching trusts in the Leicester Medical Practice, where the trainee will UK with clinical care and services spread over 3 gain experience of pharmacy roles in primary care. sites; Leicester Royal Infirmary, Leicester Example rotas are available on request. General Hospital and Glenfield Hospital. Each trainee pharmacist has a designated We provide A&E services to the city and supervisor for support throughout the year, and surrounding district as well as delivering care additional support from experienced staff across many specialities including medicine, during each rotation. surgery, respiratory, cardiology, paediatrics, oncology and critical care. We are a regional Trainee pharmacists attend weekly clinical centre for renal dialysis and transplant, and for seminars in addition to the monthly regional Medicines Information specialising in drugs in training days. These are led by specialist breast milk. The Trust provides one of the largest pharmacists who use their expertise to help ECMO services in Europe for both children and students expand their knowledge and skills. adults. We also have a large aseptic By the end of the year, our trainee pharmacists manufacturing unit providing a cytotoxic have developed the skills and confidence required reconstitution service for IV chemotherapy. to work independently, under remote supervision. The Role of Pharmacy Many of our current pharmacists completed their own training at UHL, stayed on once qualified, and The pharmacy team is spread across the have now taken on more senior roles within the Trust and consists of over 400 members of staff. Trust. This is something we encourage and We have pharmacy departments on each support. hospital site and satellite pharmacies to support specialist areas. The main departments use automated dispensing robots to improve safety What our trainees say and efficiency. “UHL has provided me with an environment of constant support and guidance, where I have been able to Our clinical pharmacy service is closely develop to my full potential.” integrated into the multidisciplinary team. We provide specialist pharmacy support to wards “I enjoyed every part of my training year. It was well and clinics to ensure safe, effective and 17structured and different speciality rotations gave me a economic prescribing, whilst delivering medicines wide range of experience.”

information and advice to our patients.

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust - Lincoln

County Hospital

Training and Development The Pharmacy Department. Lincoln County Hospital. Greetwell Rd. Lincoln, LN2 5QY Pharmacist Kate Ray

Website: https://www.ulh.NHS.uk/ Accommodation: Email: https://www.progressliving.org.uk/ [email protected], Tel: 0152 257 3408

role to play in this team and as the year progresses become a more integral part of the service. The trust’s vision is outstanding care, personally delivered and this is integrated into the pharmacy role, striving to provide an outstanding service for patients and has been recognised by the trust with the pharmacy department having previously won the Chief Executive’s award.

The Training Programme The training programmes are tailored to each foundation trainee pharmacist and are structured The Trust on the GPhC foundation trainee pharmacist learning outcomes. The programme is designed United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS trust is one of the largest acute trusts in England. In the course to increase the foundation trainee pharmacists’ of a year the trust will treat somewhere in the responsibilities throughout the year, so they are region of 180,000 accident and emergency ready to work as a competent and confident clinical pharmacist by the end of the year. This is patients, almost 100,000 inpatients and nearly half a million outpatients. The trust consists of achieved by a series of rotations including; dispensary, medicine, surgery, medicines three acute hospitals, two of which offer foundation trainee pharmacist placements; information, specialist wards (e.g. intensive care, medical admissions) and cross-sector rotations Pilgrim hospital in Boston and Lincoln County hospital. with supervisor and mentor support provided throughout the year.

This placement is based at Lincoln County hospital, but there may be the opportunity to During the year, if the foundation trainee rotate to the other foundation training site. pharmacist has any questions or problems, there are numerous individuals on hand for support ranging from their designated supervisor to The Role of Pharmacy previous trainee pharmacists who have taken The pharmacy department at Lincoln County Band 6 jobs with the trust, to senior pharmacists Hospital employs approximately ninety staff and and technicians. Each foundation pharmacist will is modern, friendly and progressive. The also be assigned a mentor to help to guide them pharmacy role is based upon a team approach through the year. integrating all ward-based pharmacy staff into a team designed to put the patients’ needs first. What our trainees say Patient safety and good quality care mean that “I have thoroughly enjoyed my pre-registration the trust is committed to providing a wide range training at LCH, the team are very welcoming and of education and training programmes for its always willing to help. I became a valuable member of entire staff, according to their needs. The the pharmacy team and my favourite part was experiencing a wide variety of ward rotations. This foundation trainee pharmacists have an important 18 year has given me a strong platform to enable my development as a competent pharmacist.”

United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trust - Pilgrim

Hospital

Training and Development The Pharmacy Department, Pilgrim Hospital, Training and Development PharmacistPharmacist Sibsey Road, Boston, PE21 9QS Kate Ray Kate Ray

Website: https://www.ulh.NHS.uk/ Email: Accommodation: Email: [email protected], https://www.progressliving.org.uk/ [email protected], Tel:Tel: 0152 0152 257 257 3408 3408

department having previously won the Chief Executive’s award.

The Training Programme The pharmacy department in Pilgrim Hospital, Boston offers a comprehensive training programme, structured on the GPhC foundation pharmacist performance standards. The programme is tailored to each foundation trainee pharmacist with tutor and mentor support. The programme aims to increase each trainee’s responsibilities throughout the year, so that they The Trust will be ready to work as a competent and United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS trust is one of confident clinical pharmacist by the end. This is the largest acute trusts in England. In the course achieved by a series of rotations including of a year the trust will treat somewhere in the dispensary, medicine, surgery, aseptics, region of 180,000 accident and emergency specialist wards (e.g., intensive care) and cross- patients, almost 100,000 inpatients and nearly sector rotations. half a million outpatients. The trust consists of four hospitals, two of which offer foundation During the year, if the foundation trainee trainee pharmacist placements: Pilgrim hospital pharmacist has any questions or problems, there in Boston and Lincoln County hospital. are numerous individuals on hand for support ranging from their pharmacist tutor to previous This placement is based at Pilgrim hospital, foundation trainee pharmacists who have taken Boston but there will be the opportunity to rotate Band 6 jobs with the trust, to senior pharmacists to Lincoln County hospital. and technicians. Each student is assigned a mentor who can help to guide them through the The Role of Pharmacy year. The department has an active social scene, The pharmacy department at Pilgrim Hospital including various meals out and sporting employs approximately fifty staff. The pharmacy activities including badminton games and football team are involved in many different aspects of matches. patient care, including ward-based care, antimicrobial ward rounds and cancer services provision, and as the year progresses the What our trainees say foundation trainee pharmacists will become an “Friendly, supportive staff that support and encourage integral part of this team. The trust vision is to you to learn. For my pre-registration year I have a deliver excellence in rural healthcare, and this is structured but flexible timetable, this has allowed me integrated into every aspect of the department, to shadow a variety of professionals and expand my including encouraging staff to undertake further knowledge.” learning and development. This has been recognised by the trust with the pharmacy 19

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Lead Pharmacist for Professional The Pharmacy Department Development Kettering General Hospital Emma Cramp Rothwell Road, Kettering, NN16 8UZ

Website: https://www.kgh.nhs.uk/home Email: [email protected] Accommodation: Upon enquiry with HR Tel: 01536 492155

We actively encourage the trainees to be involved with pharmacy initiatives, including audits and national poster presentations, in order to further their skillset and empower them to pursue their passion for clinical topics, in preparation for their future career.

In addition, the staff hold games night, Secret Santa, and other regular social events to get to know one another and build good professional relationships.

The Trust The Training Programme

Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation The training programme equips foundation Trust is a 600-bed district general hospital. The pharmacists with clinical and hospital serves 240 patients per day in A&E communication skills as well as confidence and 40,000 inpatients per year. The vision of to make independent decisions, in order to the trust is to provide safe high-quality care to make a positive impact on patient care. our communities based upon the CARE values of being Compassionate, Accountable, With on-site rotations through Respectful and Engaging. endocrinology, surgery (incl. ITU), medicine and paediatrics, and off-site rotations in The Role of Pharmacy mental health and medicines information, we ensure that the criteria and standards The pharmacy department was recently set out by the GPhC are met. Cross sector renovated and expanded to include a large placements, shadowing other health care dispensary, office area and a brand-new professionals and clinical teaching week dispensing robot. With a workforce of over 100 are highlights of the foundation year, which staff, the department cultivates a supportive help trainees to gain a well-rounded insight and engaging environment with a team working into hospital pharmacy and how it fits into spirit, which encourages the development of all the wider healthcare model. staff. The pharmacy department strives for efficiency through a plethora of initiatives, Each of the trainees have a personal tutor expanding the role of pharmacists and who is friendly, approachable and technicians alike. supportive and always aims for the trainees to achieve and realise their potential. The department actively encourages multidisciplinary team learning on the ward and What our trainees say within the department itself on a weekly basis, 20 “I found my pre-registration year at KGH very involving different specialist pharmacists and supportive. Everyone is friendly and always willing health care professionals. to help.”

Kettering General Hospital Foundation Trust with

Lakeside Healthcare

Lead Pharmacist for Kettering General Hospital Lakeside Healthcare Professional Development NHS Foundation Trust Corby, Emma Cramp Rothwell Road, Lakeside Surgery, Kettering, Cottingham Road, Email: Northamptonshire, Corby, [email protected] NN16 8UZ Northamptonshire, Tel: 01536 492155 https://www.kgh.nhs.uk/home NN17 2UR

Accommodation: Upon https://www.thelakesid enquiry with HR esurgery.co.uk/

At Lakeside Healthcare, pharmacists are actively The Trust involved in the running of clinics such as minor illness, anticoagulation, hypertension and in conducting Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust medication reviews for patients to ensure efficient and is a 600-bed district general hospital. excellent patient care in a timely manner. They support The vision of the trust is based upon the CARE the practice in developing guidelines and liaise with values of being Compassionate, Accountable, CCG pharmacists for further prescribing advice. Respectful and Engaging. We aim to continue to foster these values in all employees. The Training Programme This is a novel programme within the East Midlands with Lakeside Healthcare aims to provide a high quality the opportunity to understand the patient journey service that is easily accessible to all patients. The between primary and secondary care. The programme practice is fully computerised, enabling the will enable the trainee to understand the wider role of practice to cover a wide range of services such as pharmacists in primary care GP practice and how this repeat prescriptions. The practice covers Corby impacts patient care. Trainees will shadow pharmacists, plus an approximate radius of five miles from the nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals who medical centre. are either independent prescribers or advanced care practitioners and gain insight to how patients are This will be a split post between Lakeside managed in a multidisciplinary manner. They will have Healthcare and Kettering General Hospital. a range of opportunities and experience to understand Thirteen weeks of the foundation programme will the inner workings of a GP practice. The trainee will take place at Lakeside Healthcare. have a cross site tutor to support them throughout the year. The Role of Pharmacy At Kettering General Hospital, on-site rotations include The pharmacy department at Kettering General medicine, surgery (incl. ITU) and paediatrics, and off- Hospital was recently renovated and expanded. site rotations in mental health and medicines With a workforce of over 100 staff, the department information to ensure that standards set out by GPhC cultivates a supportive and engaging environment are met. The clinical teaching week is one of the with a team working spirit, which encourages the highlights of the year, helping trainees gain a well- development of all staff. rounded insight into hospital pharmacy and how it fits into the wider healthcare model. We actively encourage the trainees to work with the wider multidisciplinary team and be involved with initiatives including audits and national poster What our trainees say presentations. This helps to further their skillset “Not only did KGH provide me with support to pass my pre and empower them to pursue their passion for reg year, but also to thrive as a pharmacist.” clinical topics in preparation for their future career.

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust

The Pharmacy Department Training and Development Northampton General Hospital, Cliftonville, Pharmacist Northants, NN1 5BD Shelley Patel Email: [email protected] Tel: Website: www.northamptongeneral.nhs.uk 01604 545692

The Training Programme Our 52 week accredited training programme is specifically designed to help you develop the skills required to demonstrate all the required GPhC standards and equip you for your professional career. We offer experience in a wide variety of rotations including medicines information, mental health, critical care and paediatrics. Specialist clinical pharmacists and technicians will supervise you, and you will also gain experience in outpatient clinics and specialist ward rounds. You will rotate through and train in core medical and surgical The Trust specialities (as per the timetable) which include: Northampton General Hospital (NGH) is located close to Northampton town centre and provides a full range of Medicine Surgery outpatient, diagnostic, in-patient and day case elective Stroke Trauma and and emergency care. It also has a growing range of Orthopaedics specialist treatments that distinguishes our services Elderly care Vascular surgery from many district general hospitals within the area; Respiratory GI surgery including services for hyper-acute stroke, vascular and Medical High dependency unit renal patients. We are also an accredited cancer centre, caring for patients across Northamptonshire and admissions parts of Buckinghamshire. Endocrinology G U Surgery

The Role of Pharmacy We offer you the opportunity of working with our friendly, caring and supportive pharmacy team of over GP split NGH timetable.pdf 100 staff. Our pre-registration pharmacists work and timetable.pdf train with pharmacists as part of an integrated ward New for 2020 and 2021 applicants team providing the best possible care. Technicians We have a new and unique programme available trained in checking, counselling, medicines information, which incorporates Primary Care (GP services), aseptics and medicines management also play an Secondary Care (NGH) and NHS community important role in technical skills training. At NGH our services team encourages a learning environment and supports including mental health (NHFT). All highlighted in the professional development of pharmacists once the registered and beyond. timetable above. For more information contact, We invite you to contact us for a chat and read about Natalie Farsham for NHFT and Steven Nelmes our pharmacy department on page 18 of our hospital for GP placement details. magazine’

What our trainees say ‘The best thing about my pre-reg year is definitely the support I have been receiving. It is very comforting to know that the staff you work with have 22 confidence in you and believe in you.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

The Pharmacy Department, Nottingham Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - University Hospitals NHS Trust, QMC, Preregistration Training Facilitator: Derby Rd, Nottingham NG7 2UH Laura Broad

Website: https://www.nuh.nhs.uk Email: [email protected] Accommodation: Tel: 0115 9249924 Ext 64984 http://findahome.derwentliving.com/

The Trust Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH) Working as part of the large NUH pharmacy team consists of two main hospital sites, the Queen’s is an enjoyable and rewarding experience. There Medical Centre (QMC) and Nottingham City is always lots going on and many different social Hospital (NCH). NUH is one of the biggest and events happening throughout the year. busiest acute trusts in England employing around 15,000 staff. We provide care to over 2.5 million The Training Programme residents of Nottingham and its surrounding Our team of nine foundation pharmacists are split communities, and specialist services to the wider over both sites: 5 based mainly at QMC, 4 based region to a further 3-4 million people. mainly at NCH. Following a structured induction programme, time will be spent on both sites to The Trust has an annual turnover of just under gain experience of the wide variety of specialties £1billion and around 1700 inpatient beds (87 and departments that we have to offer at NUH. wards). We have a strong national and Rotations include a wide variety of clinical areas international reputation for many specialist plus dispensary, medicines information, services, including stroke, renal, neurosciences, production, mental health, outpatients and self - cancer services, trauma and the Nottingham directed weeks. Children’s Hospital, with the pharmacy department having a huge input into these services. Throughout the year you will be supported to pass your validations and competencies to allow you to gradually take on more responsibility as a The Role of Pharmacy pharmacist with the aim of working independently There are approximately 400 pharmacy staff at by the end of the year. NUH. The pharmacy department is welcoming, friendly, forward thinking and constantly NUH runs a monthly clinical tutorial programme implementing innovative ways of working to on a wide range of clinical topics. There are also deliver medicines optimisation and the best regular regional tutorial days. possible care and outcomes for patients. Our pharmacists are fully integrated into the clinical teams, supported by a team of medicines management technicians and assistants. What our trainees say You will be supported throughout the year by the “NUH gave me fantastic exposure to a wealth of foundation facilitator, a lead trainer for each pharmacy experience within my pre-reg year.” different rotation, the training team, and an experienced team of tutors. Each trainee “I feel NUH pharmacy staff encourage pharmacist has their own personal tutor giving progression by making sure there are dedicated support throughout the year. You will opportunities to do so and inspiring you to take on meet your own tutor at least fortnightly and the new challenges.” foundation team meet monthly with the facilitator to keep everyone up-to-date and allow timely “All the pharmacy team at NUH want you to feedback. succeed and will support you to do so.”

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The Pharmacy Dept, King’s Mill Hospital, Mansfield Training and Development Rd, Sutton-In-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, NG17 4JL Pharmacist Sandra Harris Website: https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ Email: Twitter: @SFHTPharmacy @SFHFT [email protected] Accommodation: Tel: 01623 622515 Ext: 3799 https://asra.pahousing.co.uk/customers/hospital- accommodation/

professional staff that communicate with patients to ensure they understand their medicines and get the most out of their treatment”.

The Training Programme We offer a well-structured, robust, tailored foundation programme designed to increase your professional responsibility in a gradual, progressive manner, so that by the end of the year you are capable of safely and efficiently The Trust running your own ward and dispensary. Sherwood Forest Hospitals is a modern and Trainees cover a range of rotational specialities; pleasant place to work. We are a Foundation including medical and surgical ward rotations, Hospital Trust providing high quality, acute health medicines information, aseptics, quality control, care services in and around Mansfield, Ashfield, mental health and cross-sector experience. Newark, Sherwood and parts of Derbyshire / In addition, our programme is underpinned by Lincolnshire. regular one-to-one designated supervisor We offer a wide range of specialties including meetings to support you during your training medicine, surgery, critical care and rehabilitation. year. In 2020, Health Service Journal Trust of the year We encourage the retention of our trainees on and best Trust in the Midlands in the NHS completion of their training year, and many have National staff survey. CQC rating “Good” overall stayed now working as pharmacists in our and “Outstanding” for our patient care. department. The Trust consists of three hospitals, King’s Mill Our training programme receives positive Hospital (KMH) which is 16 miles north of feedback. Nottingham, easily accessible by either the M1 (Junction 28) or the A60. Mansfield Community Hospital locally situated and Newark Hospital being furthest away from King’s Mill (22 miles). What our trainees say Six foundation training year placements for “I am really enjoying my training so far. I love the trainee pharmacists are offered at our main site, variety and organisation of everything that I am being King’s Mill Hospital. Hospital accommodation is exposed to. The staff are all so supportive and available on this site. helpful.”

The Role of Pharmacy “The training year is really well organised from the The Pharmacy department at Sherwood Forest start and I felt like I had a good idea of what I was doing for the rest of the year. Everybody was very Hospitals employs approximately 120 staff welcoming and ensured we integrated well into the members. We are a friendly, tight knitted team.” department, dedicated to providing outstanding care to our patients. Our department mission statement is “to be one of the best Pharmacy services in the UK, ensuring timely provision of safe and effective medicines, using highly

The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust The Pharmacy Department. Royal Shrewsbury Training and Development Hospital, Mytton Oak Road, Shrewsbury SY3 Pharmacist 8XQ David Millett

Email: [email protected] Website: https://www.sath.nhs.uk Tel: 01743 261242

Accommodation: https://www.jobs.sath.nhs.uk/work- and-life/housing

The Trust The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust The 52-week programme will involve some cross-site (SaTH) serves around 500,000 people in The 52-week programme will involve some cross-site Shropshire and mid Wales. We provide services rotation including: across two main sites in Shropshire at the • acute stroke (PRH site), Princess Royal Hospital in Telford and the Royal • obstetrics and gynaecology (PRH site), Shrewsbury Hospital. Situated in one of the most • medicines information (RSH site), attractive parts of the country with dramatic • aseptic production (RSH site), countryside and bustling towns we offer • paediatrics and neonates (PRH site) supportive, friendly teams and excellent • quality assurance (RSH site). professional development and career opportunities You will be given opportunities each week for recording your evidence, personal study time and The Role of Pharmacy cross site workshops for the syllabus elements. We are a large, friendly department comprising of over 140 staff spread across the two main sites at You will be released to attend the regional study the Trust. We provide an integrated medicine events and you will have an opportunity to work for at management service to our wards at both sites least two weeks with a community pharmacy partner and we have an aseptic unit at Shrewsbury. We in order to prepare for the registration assessment. are committed to optimising medicines utilisation You will be actively involved with interprofessional and outsource where appropriate. learning with students from medicine and nursing.

During the year you will be supported by the whole We have a strong record of successful trainees team who are committed to supporting our completing the registration process and many have trainees. We have an active social scene, stayed beyond registration to further their career including meals out, camping trips, baking development. competitions and a rounders team in a local league. More information can be found by clicking here

The Training Programme Two trainees will be based at the Royal What our trainees say “I feel really privileged to have experienced a pre-reg year Shrewsbury Hospital (RSH) and two at the where my tutors and the pharmacy team are determined to Princess Royal Hospital in Telford (PRH). You will help you succeed and invested a lot of time and effort in my participate in medicines reconciliation and development. No question was made to feel a stupid optimisation with a view to achieving good question.” outcomes for the patient and facilitating a smooth discharge. “The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals NHS Trust have outstanding facilities to aid in pre-registration year learning. The team members are always supportive, allowing you to learn with and from them throughout the year.”

The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic NHS

Foundation Trust

The Pharmacy Department, Education & Training Pharmacist: Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital, Wesley Artist Gobowen, Oswestry SY10 7AG [email protected] Website: https://www.rjah.nhs.uk/

The Training Programme We offer a comprehensive structured training programme that includes clinical rotations, dispensary, pre-operative assessment clinics, and audit experience. Trainees undertake several competency-based assessments during the year including dispensing accuracy, final checking, prescription validation, medicines reconciliation and discharge counselling. This ensures trainees can practice competently and confidently on registration. Trainees benefit from working closely with their tutor, other members of the pharmacy The Trust team and other healthcare professionals. The The organisation is a single site hospital based in programme incorporates placements at a local Oswestry, Shropshire, close to the border with mental health trust and community pharmacy to North Wales. It is a leading orthopaedic centre of enable trainees to receive a wide range of excellence which has a national and international experiences. Trainees have regular meetings to reputation for orthopaedic surgery and monitor progress and offer support. Attendance at musculoskeletal medicine, including research into clinical seminars and CPD sessions compliment disorders of bone, joint and muscle services. the training programme. Research activities include spinal injuries, rheumatology, sports injuries, stem cell therapy, metabolic disorders and orthotics.

What our trainees say The Role of Pharmacy Our friendly Pharmacy department provides an “Working at RJAH was a great experience for me to environment that supports innovation, learning develop my confidence and skills. There are a range of and team working and encourages individuals to clinical and patient-centred opportunities which allow a develop in their role. As a department we trainee to develop as a competent and confident continually aim to improve patient care and to pharmacist. The tutors and staff at RJAH are very promote professional development. To meet the friendly and supportive, which makes this challenging needs of our patients we provide ward-based year enjoyable and rewarding at the same time.” clinical pharmacy, pharmacist-led clinics and have a team of independent prescribers.

During the year, if the trainee pharmacist has any questions or problems, there are numerous individuals available for support.

University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust (Queens Hospital, Burton)

The Pharmacy Department. Education and Training Pharmacist: Queens Hospital, Joanna Hurcombe Belvedere Road, Burton on Trent, Staffs, DE13 0RB Email: [email protected] Tel: 01283 511 511 Website: https://www.uhdb.nhs.uk/education- pharmacy-training

The Trust The Training Programme Queens Hospital, along with Samuel Johnson Queens Hospital Burton offers an exciting and and Sir Robert Peel Community Hospitals are the comprehensive programme focusing on principal provider of acute hospital services for preparation for clinical practice. We offer one full the residents of Burton upon Trent and time hospital and two 50:50 hospital/community surrounding areas including South Staffordshire, pharmacy split foundation programmes with our South Derbyshire and North West Leicestershire. long-standing training partners, Dean and The three sites serve a population of Smedley Pharmacies. During your hospital approximately 360,000 people and is committed training we focus on the key therapeutic areas to to delivering high quality patient care. fully prepare you to be a versatile clinical pharmacist upon qualification. You will have In 2018, Burton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust exposure to key areas in medicine and surgery merged with Derby Teaching Hospitals and as well as, paediatrics, critical care and oncology. formed the University Hospitals of Derby and All trainees complete training and validations in Burton NHS Foundation Trust (UHDB) to bring medicines reconciliation, dispensing, accuracy together our five hospitals to provide the highest checking so that they can practice independently quality care to patients. We aim to deliver in these areas once signed off. outstanding care for local people as we bring together the expertise of our 12,000 staff across Our trainees are supported with a personal our five hospital sites. foundation tutor (for the 50:50 places trainees will Foundation training is largely based at Queens have a tutor in both hospital and community) as with the opportunity to visit the Royal Derby and well as being supported by the programme Community Hospitals during the year. manager. Our tutors are experienced pharmacists who meet with their trainees The Role of Pharmacy regularly and will carry out all appraisals. We are The pharmacy departments on all sites are pleased that our programme receives positive modern, progressive and forward thinking. feedback from trainees. The programme provides Pharmacy at Queens Hospital is well integrated its own seminars along with the Dean and within the Trust ensuring that pharmacists, Smedley trainees in a designated monthly study technicians and assistants are seen as part of sessions Some of these sessions involve the the ward team. Person centred care is at the trainee attending teaching provided by the heart of all the work we do. department’s pharmacists, but also some peer We aim to use our modern facilities to utilise and problem-based learning. We also allow our technologies such as automated robotic trainees to take a study afternoon each week to dispensing, integrated electronic prescribing & meet the learning and portfolio demands of the patient records system. We have specialist year. pharmacists embedded in clinical teams to promote safe, effective and economic prescribing, delivering medicines information and What our trainees say: support to our patients. “A friendly, welcoming department with supportive and knowledgeable staff who have guided me through my 27 training.”

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust

The Pharmacy Department. University Hospitals Advanced Lead Pharmacist Workforce of North Midlands NHS Trust, Newcastle Road, Development Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, ST4 6QG Vicky Simcock Tel: 01782 674501 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Tel: 01782 679093

The Trust Foundation students feel supported and valued by the University Hospitals of the North Midlands is a very large whole pharmacy team and this gives them the opportunity teaching trust with approximately 1450 beds based on two to develop the necessary skills to become a successful sites, the Royal Stoke University Hospital in Stoke on pharmacist. In the ever-changing world of the NHS it is Trent and the County Hospital in Stafford. The Trust essential that, in addition to clinical knowledge and skills, provides a full range of general acute hospital services for foundation students learn to work safely and efficiently approximately 700,000 people living in and around under pressure, can adapt to changing circumstances Staffordshire and beyond and is a major trauma centre and develop resilience. The foundation programme at providing trauma services for three million people in a UHNM offers a supportive environment so that students wider area, including neighbouring counties and North have exposure to the real and current issues that may be Wales. a risk to patients and are involved in developing and rolling out the solutions. Being in a team of fellow The Trust is recognised for particular expertise in trauma, students, amongst many junior pharmacists, offers the respiratory conditions, spinal, upper G-I, complex students the benefit of excellent peer support. orthopaedic and laparoscopic surgery and the management of liver conditions. We have a programme of teaching sessions specifically designed for the foundation students led by the specialist lead pharmacists. Topics covered are wide and varied The Pharmacy Department and include cardiology, haematology, neurology and The Pharmacy at the Royal Stoke Hospital serves the renal. The sessions cover the aspects junior pharmacists largest site and is a state of the art facility. The dispensary will need to consider when reviewing patients' medicines has a state-of-the-art robotic dispensing system. In and explore the practical issues involved in the context of addition, we have an MHRA licensed aseptic patient case examples. In addition, foundation students manufacturing unit which produces highly specialised are encouraged to attend the regular education sessions medicines including cytotoxic (chemotherapy) infusions delivered for the pharmacists and are invited to the and parenteral nutrition feeds. weekly grand round. The Pharmacy at the County Hospital provides an inpatient and outpatient service. The Pharmacy is licensed The rotations provide opportunity to gain clinical with the GPHC and provides services to local hospices as knowledge and skills in a variety of specialities including well as UHNM patients. There is also an Over the Counter acute admissions, respiratory, cardiology, renal, shop on this site. neurology, paediatrics and specialised surgery. Students will rotate between the Royal Stoke and County Hospital The Pharmacy department employs over 300 people sites. Students get the benefit of learning in a very busy including Pharmacists, Pharmacy Technicians, Pharmacy environment as well as a more personal, quieter Assistant Technical Officers and Clerical staff, all of whom environment which is ideal for learning and growing play a vital role in providing medication and advice to our professionally. There is also the option of a split sector patients. programme which includes 13 weeks at Brinsley Avenue Medical Practice. The Directorate has 5 core services: • Patient Services and Distribution • MHRA Licensed Manufacturing Unit The Area • Governance, Medicines Safety and Medicines Conveniently situated in the middle of England, Information Staffordshire has excellent links with most major UK • Clinical Information and Procurement cities. It offers a broad range of contrasting landscapes • Clinical Services from the rugged natural beauty of the Peak District to the world famous pottery industry to the bustling city of Stoke on Trent and the famous Alton Towers. Locally there is Foundation Training plenty of very reasonably priced accommodation Our training is designed to ensure that students can available within walking distance to the hospital. develop from a graduate to a confident, capable registered pharmacist. We provide a stimulating environment with For further information please visit: variety and challenges. 28 http://www.uhnm.nhs.uk/OurServices/pharmacy/Page s/Working-in-Pharmacy.aspx

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust

The Pharmacy Department. EmilyEmily Horwill Horwill Sandwell Hospital. DeputyDeputy Chief Chief Pharmacist Pharmacist Lyndon. SandwellSandwell & West & West Birmingham Birmingham West Bromwich, B71 4HJ NHS Trust NHS Trust Website: https://www.swbh.NHS.uk/ [email protected]@nhs.net

The Trust Single Sector Hospital Programme Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital is a busy Our training programme is comprehensive and inner-city teaching trust at the heart of West varied. The focus is on ensuring trainees are Midlands. exposed to ward based clinical pharmacy at an The Trust consists of three hospitals; foundation early stage and become comfortable in that training is delivered at Sandwell Hospital in West environment. Bromwich and City Hospital in Birmingham. In Rotations include; dispensary, medicine, surgery, 2022, the pharmacy will move to the Midland medicines information, aseptics and specialist Metropolitan Hospital, a new acute hospital which wards (e.g. intensive care) as well as a cross- is currently being built. The trust is an active sector rotation. member of the Black Country Alliance partnership The recently introduced Trust Electronic alongside neighbouring trusts. Prescribing and Medication Administration system has re-engineered the work of the The Role of Pharmacy medicines management teams and the delivery of clinical pharmacy. The trust has a mission to become the best integrated care organisation in the NHS. Split Sector Programme The pharmacy department is at the forefront of This will involve a shortened version of the 12 realising that aim. This is achieved by a team of month hospital programme and include a 13 highly skilled pharmacists and medicines week placement at Rushall Medical Centre, management technicians delivering high quality Walsall. Training will include GP practice clinical ward based pharmaceutical care. Our foundation pharmacist roles involving patient consultations, trainee pharmacists have an important role to play medication review clinics and specialist clinics. in this team and as the year progresses become Location an integral part of the service. A robust education and training strategy help develop the pharmacy Sandwell Hospital is located in West Bromwich, workforce to achieve excellence in service while City Hospital is in West Birmingham. There provision. are a number of places to live and transport links In addition to this, the department and wider are excellent. organisation take the health and wellbeing of team Birmingham is a major European city with a members very seriously understanding its role in number of major attractions. ensuring high productivity and effective working. The city is home to a number of concert venues

including the world-famous Birmingham The Training Programme Symphony Hall and Genting Arena. In 2020 we became one of the first Trusts in the There are a number of places to shop including West Midlands to host split foundation pharmacist the Bullring and Mailbox as well as thriving training with a GP practice. This forms part of a independent stores. national programme which recognises the importance of clinical pharmacist work in general In 2022 Birmingham will host the Commonwealth practice providing broader range of knowledge and games! skills unique to that setting.

The Dudley Group NHS Foundation Trust

The Pharmacy Department. Deputy Chief Pharmacist Medicines Optimisation: Russells Hall Hospital, Danielle Stacey Dudley, Email: [email protected] West Midlands. DY1 2HQ Lead Pharmacist for Education & Training and Website: http://dudleygroup.nhs.uk/ Medicines Optimisation: Dipesh Patel Email: [email protected] Tel: 01384 456111 ext. 2031

The Trust The pharmacy staff are friendly The Dudley Group NHS FT has three sites: and enthusiastic, providing a positive and Russells Hall Hospital, Corbett outpatient centre & supportive environment for your learning. The pharmacy department usually organises a number Guest outpatient centre, in addition to Community of social and charitable events throughout the year Services. Your training will be based at Russells Hall Hospital which is the largest of our three sites which are well supported.

and the Trust’s centre for all inpatient care The Training Programme (approx.700 beds). Russells Hall, Corbett and the Guest are all modern hospitals each with their own We treat each of our foundation trainee pharmacists pharmacy, in a pleasant working environment. Based in the heart of the Black as individuals. We will give you a structured Country, the Trust serves a population of more than programme with a degree of flexibility designed to 400,000 in Dudley and the surrounding areas. We make your year an enjoyable experience. You will are a Foundation Trust and have Teaching status be supported by experienced tutors with a good with the University of Birmingham. The hospital track record of seeing students successfully provides a full range of secondary care services for complete their foundation year. We will develop your skills, knowledge, and the local population and some specialist services for the wider populations of the Black Country and responsibility throughout the year, at a pace that's West Midlands. appropriate for you. We expect you to show enthusiasm, initiative and commitment to your learning and contribute to the efficient running of the department. The Trust has a focus on interprofessional learning and Better Training Better Care, during your year you will have the opportunity to interact and learn with foundation and post- registration medical and nursing colleagues. You will attend regular Regional Study days where you will network with other hospital foundation trainees from the West Midlands region. To add to your general pharmaceutical experience, you will have the opportunity to complete a 2-week cross sector training placement in community pharmacy. The Role of Pharmacy

The pharmacy service is provided by over 150 What Our Trainees Say staff. The pharmacy department is state of the “Members of staff are both friendly and supportive. art and supported by extensive dispensary automation which enables the pharmacy team They have provided me with great advice, to concentrate on patient focused clinical mentoring and resources to help aid my services. We use a number of well-established IT development in becoming a pharmacist. The wide variety of clinical rotations, alongside the support packages throughout the department to help from both junior and senior pharmacists, has helped provide an efficient and effective service. We guide my learning. I would highly recommend have well developed speciality services in Aseptics, considering the Trust for your foundation training Medicines Information & Clinical Trials. year”. 30

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

The Pharmacy Department. New Cross Hospital, Deputy Director of Clinical, informatics Wolverhampton Road, Wolverhampton, WV10 and ePMA services and Pre-registration 0QP Pharmacist Manager: Georgina Moore Oriel Name: The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust Website: https://www.royalwolverhampton.nhs.uk/ Email: [email protected] Tel: 01902 307 999 extension 88067

The foundation pharmacist will work alongside staff with various job roles. They will be supported through dispensary training, including use of the robot, and ward based training to ensure that they cannot only manage a ward as a foundation pharmacist but also a large and busy modern dispensary.

The Trust All staff are available for support if the trainee has The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of questions. These include newly qualified the largest acute and community providers in the pharmacists who have only recently completed West Midlands. Care is delivered across three the foundation year and are at a perfect stage to sites: offer an insight into the training year. 1) New Cross Hospital with 800 beds is the largest site and includes both Adult and The Training Programme Neonatal Intensive Care Units, Based on the GPhC pharmacist performance Cardiothoracic and Renal specialities, a standards, our pharmacy team offers a complete new Stroke unit as well as one of the training programme. The timetable consists of largest Maternity and Rheumatology units rotations through various departments including in the region cardiology, respiratory, admissions, both adult 2) West Park Hospital with 56 rehabilitation and neonatal intensive care, children’s and beds women’s services, renal, medicines information 3) Cannock Chase Hospital with 54 elective and our primary care team. The training surgery beds, day surgery and a programme is structured to ensure the growth rehabilitation ward from a new graduate to a qualified pharmacist is Foundation pharmacists will be based at New smooth. Tasks increase in difficulty as the year Cross Hospital but will rotate to the two smaller progresses and the trainee demonstrates sites. competency. Thus, the programme is tailored to the trainee. Each trainee is assigned a tutor and The Role of Pharmacy mentor for support to facilitate the trainee’s The pharmacy team at RWT is friendly and development and accomplishment of the welcoming. The team consists of approximately standards required to become a responsible, 200 staff employed across the three inpatient confident and able pharmacist at the end of the sites and our prescribing support/primary care year. network team department who with close links to our GP practices improves the interface between secondary and primary care. What our trainees say A strong team approach is encouraged at RWT “Completing my training at RWT provided me with an to ensure pharmacists, technicians and excellent base. The team is so friendly, approachable and supportive and this made the year easier. The assistants at both dispensary and ward level experience I gained is invaluable and I will never work to ensure a safe and efficient service with forget my journey.” the patient’s needs prioritised. An integral part of growth and improvement in services is training 31 and the department and Trust have a strong commitment to ensure continued progress.

Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust

Pharmacy Department, Walsall Manor Lead Pharmacist Teacher Practitioner AwaitingHospital, Moat Road, Walsall, West Simren Sidhu

Midlands, WS5 3LN Email: [email protected]

Tel: 01922-721172 ext. 6790

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Website: https://www.walsallhealthcare.nhs.uk

Our Trust The Training Programme Walsall Manor Hospital is an acute hospital trust The pharmacy department has a strong which forms part of Black Country STP. Our relationship with different specialities in the trust, vision: Caring for Walsall together. providing a wealth of shadowing opportunities for a wider awareness of different healthcare professional roles. This helps you to develop into a more rounded pharmacist. In addition to this we can help co-ordinate many unique cross sector opportunities including primary care with CCG pharmacists, palliative care, mental health and cross sector community pharmacy placements to list a few.

Foundation trainee pharmacists are provided with a structured timetable supported by guidance from mentors and regular meetings We are a general hospital with approximately with their tutors. As the year progresses, we will ~450 beds. In the course of a year we have empower you with the knowledge and expertise ~68,000 inpatient admissions and ~327,000 to make interventions and follow them through outpatient appointments. independently, supporting you to flourish and practice with minimal supervision. We will The Role of Pharmacy provide protected study time and flexible annual The pharmacy department staffs pride leave to enable you to use your time effectively. themselves in providing the best possible ward based service, putting patients first. As a department, we are proactive in implementing innovative ideas with the aim of What our trainees say “Walsall Manor Hospital has moulded me into the improving the service we provide. Some pharmacist that I am today. The training was strong examples of this include robot dispensing, the and the team were excellent. My experience enabled annual congress award for the patient sticker me to build my confidence to open my wings to so initiative, and educating patients on the usage of many new opportunities.” their medication to improve medicines optimisation. “Walsall Hospital has increased my exposure to the The pharmacy department works closely as a world of pharmacy and enlightened me to the team and our foundation trainee pharmacists wonderful opportunities that await me after are important members of the qualification. It has provided me with a strong platform to progress my career.”