We are very excited to be able to offer a new rotational programme at a more senior level to you and our pharmacists at NGH. This will enable you to continue your development and increase your skills and knowledge across a wider portfolio before deciding to specialise. You will be working within the friendly and supportive Pharmacy Clinical Team to provide a comprehensive medicines optimisation and management service within a designated clinical area for a 6-month rotation. The specialities will include:
Medicine - Admissions, ED, Renal, Cardiology, Respiratory, Gastroenterology, amongst others
Surgery - General (inc. Vascular), Gynae, H&N, T&O, Critical Care, POAC
ePMA/Digital with a clinical speciality
Paediatrics
Medicines Information / Safety / Training / High Cost Medicines
Other clinical areas where service opportunities allow.
Main duties of the job
To work within a clinical specialty for 6 months at a time, building relations with other staff to ensure safe and effective medicines optimisation for patients.
To actively participate in ward rounds and fully integrate within the speciality multidisciplinary team.
If available within the speciality, to work in pharmacy led clinics.
To undertake projects or developments within the speciality eg Quality Improvements, Audits, Research.
To contribute to guideline, PGD developments within the speciality.
To carry out root cause analysis of medicine related incidents which have occurred within the speciality and attend or present at governance meetings.
To undertake training of pharmacy and other healthcare professionals within the speciality.
Job responsibilities
To work with the Pharmacy Clinical Team to provide a comprehensive Pharmacy Service within a designated clinical area, specialities including:
Medicine Admissions, ED, Renal, Cardiology, Respiratory, Gastroenterology, amongst others.
Surgery General (inc. Vascular), Gynae, H&N, T&O, Critical Care, POAC.
ePMA/Digital with a clinical speciality.
Paediatrics.
Medicines Information / Safety / Training / High Cost Medicines.
Other clinical areas where service opportunities allow.
* Providing a Clinical and Specialist Pharmacist role.
* Training of pharmacy staff and the wider multidisciplinary team.
* Service development including Quality Improvement projects, preparation of guidelines.
Person Specification
Skills
* Ability to prioritise.
* Ability to delegate.
* Ability to work under pressure.
* Ability to work alone and as a team member.
* Time management.
Knowledge and Experience
* Post-registration clinical pharmacy experience within hospital, PCN, community including at least four of the following specialties: Medicine (or medical specialties), Care of the Older Person, Surgery (or surgical specialties), Paediatrics, Medicines Information, Oncology/Haematology, Aseptics (this would normally be achieved over at least a 2-3 year period).
* Good clinical knowledge.
* Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
* Skill mix /role of Technicians in Clinical Services.
* Awareness of interface issues.
* Teaching, supervising and training staff.
* Undertaken service improvement / quality improvement projects / audits / research projects.
* NHS arrangements, eg CCGs, NICE, CQC, Clinical Governance, PCNs, NHS Digital.
* Staff supervision.
* Attendance on Consultant-led ward rounds.
* Experience of prescribing within a speciality to optimise medicines for specific patient groups.
* Experience of electronic prescribing and administration systems and electronic patient records.
Educations, Training and Qualifications
* BPharm or MPharm degree.
* Member of General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Achieved (or working towards) postgraduate clinical qualification (or equivalent knowledge/experience).
* Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society.
* Practice Certificate in Independent Prescribing.
* Member of UKCPA, PCPA, BOPA or other relevant specialist body.
Key Competencies/Personal Qualities and Attributes
* Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality, diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users.
* Both full time and part time candidates should have the ability to work shifts that will cover 7 days of the week as the NHS moves towards 7 day service provision.
* Smart appearance.
* Confidence.
* Influential.
* Integrity and personal credibility.
* Willingness to learn and develop personally.
* Self-motivated and able to motivate others to achieve a high level of performance.
* Ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines where there are competing demands.
* Strives for excellence.
* Ability to be flexible and respond to the needs of the organisation.
* Proactive and solution focused.
* Emotionally resilient.
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.
£43,742 to £50,056 a year per annum / pro rata
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