We are looking for a locum pharmacist and locum pharmacy technician for a part time vacancy in Uxbridge.
Hours of work will be 9am-1pm Monday to Friday.
CRB clearance preferable but can be arranged if you don’t have existing clearance. Experience working in a hospital or secure environment would be beneficial.
Call Linda on 01677 424215 for more details
N.B. Locum pharmacy technician needs to be registered as such with the GPhC
We need more high quality locums to work for our clients in the North East of England. We have work available with multiples, independents, supermarkets and private health providers so if you live in an area where work is sparse, why not re-locate to the North East for the summer?
Call Linda or Lynne on 0800 8818844 for details
A community pharmacy screening pilot for intravenous drug misusers identified 68 per cent of patients who had unknowingly been exposed to hepatitis C.
The scheme, set up by the British Liver Trust, illustrates how community pharmacies that already offer needle exchange and methadone services for drug misusers can help identify undiagnosed liver disease.
Link to full article on PJ Online
http://www.pjonline.com/news/liver_trust_trials_pharmacy_as_hepatitis_screening_venue
Next Development – a pharmacist conducting the test as part of the research team? Hope so.
As you know I locum quite a bit in prison service pharmacies and as I left my booking on Thursday for the long weekend I was struck by the irony of pharmacy’s predicament with regard to incorporation into the healthcare team.
Don’t get me wrong I LOVED having the weekend off but doesn’t this just give ammunition to the commisioners of healthcare services when they are looking to cut costs. All the other professions have to either work through bank-holidays or, at least be on-call. Not pharmacy. We got all our work done in four days and enjoy the weekend.
If you were a commissioner, would you then class pharmacy as an essential service or one that can easily be out-sourced? Doctors and nurses are essential, they are needed every day. They are visable, available and although they do seem to sit around for long periods of the day, they turn up to work 365 days a year.
In some prison service pharmacies and hospitals the traditional Monday-Friday service is a thing of the past and if we are to be truly seen as an essential part of both the primary and secondary care healthcare teams, we all need to be ready to work seven days a week in the future across all sectors.
As you know, I am very proud of the fact that we scored 95% in our customer satisfaction survey last week. However, two areas that we scored lower in were for our marketing material and awareness of all the services we offer.
The marketing material issue is in hand and we will be producing hard copies and PDF’s flyers explaining the services we provide in the next few weeks, with regard to services, this post is the start of a song and dance about other services we provide.
We started of life trading in 2003 as Pharmacy Locums UK – a pure locum agency supplying locum pharmacists and technicians across all sectors. Most pharmacists and pharmacy owners/operators are aware of this and understand this part of our business.
However, in 2006 we changed our trading name to PL-UK Recruitment to acknowledge and advertise the fact that we no longer provide just locum agency services but also permanent recruitment services. Apparently, as the results of our survey show, this is less well known and the challenge for me now is changing this to make sure that clients and candidates know that we provide both locum and permanent recruitment services.
Let the challenge begin!
PL-UK – The number one choice for pharmacy recruitment solutions in the UK
Agency Workers Regulations – how does it effect me?
The simple answer is it doesn’t. …. in most cases. For more expert guidance than I can supply as a pharmacist rather than a legal bod please click on the link below. http://www.pcg.org.uk/cms/documents/01109%20PCG%20A4%2020PP%20BROCHURE%20SINGLE%20PAGES.pdf
One in a lifetime opportunity – pharmacist required in Tonga
We have been approached by a not for profit pharmacy in the Kingdom of Tonga asking us to recruit a pharmacist to work at one of the health centres in the Kingdom. This opportunity will definately not come up again for if you fancy a complete change of scene and an opportunity to live on [...]
Just a quick post to remind all pharmacist that they need to renew their GPhC registration by the 31st October. So you still have a month to pay but if you are anything like me, if you don’t do it now, there’s a chance you’ll forget!
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