Expected Shortlisting Date: 09/01/2024
Planned Interview Date: 23/01/2024
We have an exciting opportunity for a full-time Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - split between the Anticoagulation Team and the Respiratory Team. The anticoagulant post is well integrated into the multi-disciplinary team and provides care mainly to the patients attending the outpatient clinics.
You will have the opportunity to be involved in the development of our anticoagulant service which we provide to both in and outpatients. You will be part of a team looking at piloting a new in-reach service developing the specialist anticoagulation role to provide anticoagulation advice to the clinical teams in certain clinical areas.
The role will require you to work in a clinic setting based at St James Hospital where you will participate in the day-to-day delivery of the anticoagulation service including the management of warfarin.
You will be fully supported by our senior pharmacists and wider clinical team. We work closely with pharmacy technicians, doctors, and nurses. Good communication skills will be essential. It is not essential to be a prescriber for this post, but you must be willing to complete the prescribing qualification once appointed. As part of your respiratory job plan, you will be working on the inpatient wards and supported by our advanced clinical pharmacists and specialist clinical technician.
Main Duties of the Job
The anticoagulant post is well integrated into the multi-disciplinary team and provides care mainly to the patients attending the outpatient clinics - warfarin, LMWH, and DOACs.
You will have the opportunity to be involved in the development of our anticoagulant service which we provide to both in and outpatients. You will be part of a team looking at piloting a new in-reach service developing the specialist anticoagulation role to provide anticoagulation advice to the clinical teams in certain clinical areas.
The role will require you to work in a clinic setting based at St James Hospital where you will participate in the day-to-day delivery of the anticoagulation service including the management of warfarin patients using the DAWN AC dosing application.
We work closely with pharmacy technicians, doctors, and nurses. Good communication skills will be essential.
As part of your respiratory job plan, you will be working on the inpatient wards and supported by our advanced clinical pharmacists and specialist clinical technician. There will be an opportunity to work alongside our respiratory consultant pharmacist and be involved in upcoming projects and service development opportunities. We also have clinics within respiratory medicine and there will be opportunities to be trained to deliver these clinics.
About Us
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is a fantastic trust to work for with great opportunities to develop. We need people who are passionate about their role and who can uphold the Leeds Way Values to ensure the patient's journey is a positive experience.
There will be a commitment to providing core professional commitments, late-night duties, and weekend duties within the Medicines Management and Pharmacy Service. As part of the specialist clinical pharmacist role, there will be a need to contribute to the on-call service.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.
Job Description
Job Responsibilities
* To deliver and develop specialist clinical pharmacy services to a clinical specialty within the Trust.
* Provide a specialist clinical pharmacist service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within a given specialty. Ensure medicines are used appropriately, safely, and cost-effectively in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures, and medicines legislation.
* Monitors drug use within their clinical area. This includes recording of significant clinical interventions, risk management, and some basic financial aspects.
* Supervise, along with other members of their multidisciplinary team, the development and implementation of treatment protocols and guidelines for use of drugs within the clinical area.
* Responsible for training pharmacists and other health care professionals on aspects of drug use within the clinical area.
* Provides a minimum of at least one 4-hour session of core professional commitment.
* To act as the Responsible Pharmacist in line with local procedures.
The Leeds Way Values
Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:
* Patient-centred
* Collaborative
* Fair
* Accountable
* Empowered
All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values.
Additionally, the following are core values which relate specifically to this post:
* Professional attitude.
* Deal with patients, colleagues, and other customers in an honest and open manner with integrity.
* Strict adherence to patient confidentiality.
* Committed to CPD.
Principal Duties & Areas of Responsibility
Provide specialist clinical service to patients and other members of the multi-disciplinary team within the given specialty. This will include:
* Individual prescription review to optimise therapy.
* Advice on dosage and side effects.
* Advise on safe administration of medicines.
* Participation in consultant ward rounds and multidisciplinary team meetings.
* Responsibility for medicines risk management in clinical area, including investigating clinical incidents, recording significant clinical interventions/near misses, and ensuring compliance with medicines legislation and local policies.
* Assist in the introduction of new drugs, including unlicensed medicines, into the clinical specialty.
* Keep records of patient-related information e.g. pharmaceutical care plans.
* Organisation and planning of own workload on an ongoing basis e.g. ward cover, training, audit, project work, attendance of meetings etc.
* Pharmacists who are registered as prescribers will, with the agreement of the clinical director of the specialty, prescribe within their level of competence to support patient care.
* Supervise, teach, and assess junior pharmacy staff completing training modules within the clinical area.
* Participate in any medicines-related clinical trials in the specialty.
* Propose and carry out clinical pharmacy practice research within their clinical area, and participate in any larger pharmacy research and audit.
* Work within standard operational procedures, Trust policy, and wider professional guidelines.
* Provide a service commitment (typically one 4-hour session) to a specified area within the pharmacy department i.e dispensary, aseptics, or medicines information.
* Participate in evening, weekend and bank holiday pharmacy service on a rotational basis, and where contracted, the emergency duty service.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Pharmacist Registrant of GPhC
* MPharm (or equivalent)
* Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy (or equivalent)
* Member of a relevant Professional Development Body e.g. RPSGB, BOPA, NPPG etc.
Desirable
* Independent prescribing course
Experience
Essential
* Understanding and appreciation of local and national pharmaceutical and clinical strategies
* Understanding of NHS/government policy and its applications
Desirable
* Advanced clinical pharmacy knowledge in a relevant area
Skills & Behaviours
Essential
* Team player
* Enthusiastic
* Self-motivated
* Able to work under own initiative
* Be highly adaptive to changing circumstances and situations
* Meticulous attention to detail
Desirable
* Lateral thinker and good problem solver
Additional Requirements
Essential
* Exceptional communication skills written, verbal, and listening
* Be able to plan effectively both own workload and that of specialist team
Employer Details
Employer Name
Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address
St. James's University Hospital
Beckett Street
Leeds
LS9 7TF
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