Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a pharmacist to join the medicine team at the West Middlesex site of Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust. We provide clinical pharmacy services to the Acute Assessment Unit, Ambulatory Care and Emergency departments, as well as a range of specialties including Care of the Elderly, Endocrinology, Respiratory, and Gastroenterology. The post-holder will rotate between different specialties, taking responsibility for the provision of clinical services to a specialist team.
This role provides an excellent opportunity to develop clinical, managerial, and leadership skills.
Main duties of the job
* To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients within the Emergency and Integrated Care Division (EIC).
* To ensure the safe, effective, legal, and accurate use of medicines within the specialty and to support and supervise less experienced pharmacists on rotation.
* To act as a role model and to deliver, develop, and evaluate specialist clinical pharmacy services in accordance with the objectives set by the line manager.
Job responsibilities
General Clinical Practice
* Liaise and work closely with the senior clinical pharmacy team to develop clinical pharmacy services to the Division including ward pharmacy and medicines management.
* Aim to provide safe, clinically effective, and cost-efficient use of drugs in the patients as allocated.
* Make appropriate referrals where necessary; ensure the clear and effective communication of patients' pharmaceutical needs to other pharmacists and health care professionals both within the trust and in other health care environments.
* Demonstrate and apply general pharmaceutical knowledge, and where applicable, specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge in core areas in order to plan, manage, monitor, and review therapeutic programmes for patients allocated, thereby ensuring the quality of patient care.
* Participate in ward rounds to integrate into the multidisciplinary team and raise the pharmacy profile via contributions at consultant level.
* Demonstrate appropriate clinical reasoning and judgement.
* Work across traditional boundaries, including the transcription of discharge medication.
* Be readily available and keen to answer any general medicine related pharmaceutical queries from patients, pharmacists, and other members of staff within pharmacy as well as from other health care professionals including medical staff.
* Proactively provide advice and information on any pharmaceutical issues within the directorate to pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals as needed.
* Demonstrate awareness and commitment to the Trust's Clinical Governance Agenda.
* Support the maintenance and development of the Medicines Management Initiatives including the use of patients' own medicines and self-medication.
* Facilitate writing of discharge prescriptions according to prescribing or approved transcribing systems and develop accreditation schemes for this purpose.
Person Specification
Education and qualifications
* Vocational Master's Degree in Pharmacy (+ completion of pre-registration training) (E)
* Registered as a practicing pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (E)
* Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy Practice or equivalent relevant general experience (E)
* Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice or equivalent relevant general experience (D)
* Registered independent prescriber (D)
* Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) membership (D)
Experience
* Experience as a clinical pharmacist practitioner, demonstrating appropriate levels of competency e.g. able to show consistent achievement in all areas outlined in the General Level Competency Framework / RPS Foundation Level Framework
* Variety of clinical practice to include the provision of pharmaceutical care to patients on medical and surgical wards and clinics
* Experience writing policies, procedures, and guidelines
* Education and training of staff
* Supervision of others
* Experience in carrying out audits and/or service evaluation/improvement
* Experience designing and delivering training in a multidisciplinary (MDT) environment
* Meets the necessary GPhC requirements in order to undertake the role of GPhC Trainee Pharmacist Designated Supervisor (Tutor)
Skills and Knowledge
* Meets set targets and objectives
* Meets expected levels of practice as defined by RPS Foundation Pharmacy Framework
* Influence junior medical staff
* Problem-solving and risk assessment
* Autonomous working
* General clinical knowledge and skills assessed through competency framework
* Good interpersonal skills
* Identify and meet own training needs
* Ability to supervise the work of junior pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, assistants, trainee pharmacists, and pharmacy students on placement
* Ensures other training needs are identified and met
Personal Qualities
* Flexible and enthusiastic approach
* Reliable and hard-working
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Salary: £51,883 to £58,544 a year per annum incl. HCAS
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