This is an exciting time to join our Elective Surgical Admissions team as we expand Dedicated Ward Pharmacy (DWP) across the entire trust. Your role will be pivotal in enhancing elective patient care throughout their pre-operative journey, working in both the Pre-Operative Assessment Clinic (POAC) and our Main Theatres Admission Unit (MTAU), where we have an established pharmacist and Medicines Management Team (MMT).
You’ll receive full support from our Advanced Pharmacists for MTAU and POAC to ensure you can make a meaningful impact. You will be an integral part of the pharmacy team responsible for the pharmaceutical care of elective patients during their entire perioperative journey. This includes:
1. Pre-Operative Assessment Clinic (POAC): Collaborating with anaesthetists, surgeons, and other MDT members to optimise pharmaceutical management.
2. Main Theatres Admission Unit (MTAU): Assessing patients on the day of surgery and ensuring they receive the appropriate pharmaceutical care.
3. Surgical Wards: Following up with patients post-surgery, providing pharmacy support across all surgical wards, and contributing to care in our new Critical Care unit.
Your responsibilities will also extend to attending consultant-led ward rounds, including those by the Acute Pain Team and Nutrition Team, and offering advice and education to medical and nursing staff. You will play a key role in developing and implementing medicines management policies and procedures.
We are committed to your professional development, offering opportunities to further your clinical qualifications, including independent prescribing if needed. While this is a full-time position, we are open to considering part-time arrangements. Also, if you don’t meet all the essential criteria for the Band 7 role this time, there may be an opportunity for a Band 6 to 7 progression post!
Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
The main responsibilities of the post include the following:
1. Speciality Pharmacy Role - Elective Surgical Pharmacy
2. To support the Advanced Clinical Pharmacists in POAC and MTAU and Principal Pharmacist, Surgery.
3. Have a working knowledge of current perioperative practice and protocols related to medicines and how these relate to national and other guidance.
4. To participate in the clinical/advisory Pharmacy Service, specifically to the POAC to MTAU.
5. To support Surgical Services including providing pharmacy support to a named surgical directorate.
6. Provide specialist pharmacy input into Theatre areas.
7. To optimise medicines through prescribing role operating within areas of competence (where appropriately qualified and authorised via the Trust NMP register).
8. To identify new opportunities for the development of Pharmacy Services, and assist in the preparation of business cases to support these developments.
9. To support the training of all (medical, nursing and pharmacy) staff across the division.
10. To identify and support the Cost Improvement Programme, and contribute to the Directorate Prescribing Reports, which monitor, analyse and report on medicine use and expenditure.
11. To develop/review relevant Trust Clinical Guidelines, PGDs etc.
12. To provide information, advice and guidance on the safe, effective and economical use of medicines and to challenge poor practice.
13. To optimise medicines management by reconciling drug histories, performing structured medication reviews and using patients’ own medicines.
14. To detect, record and report adverse drug reactions to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and via Datix as per Trust Policy or via practice policy, as appropriate.
15. To record your clinical activity and to monitor the outcome of your advice.
16. To monitor interventions in treatment to identify training and information needs.
17. To fulfil the requirements of the Code of Ethics and Standards of Good Professional Practice.
18. To participate in CQUINs and QIPPs at NGH.
19. To implement countywide and local prescribing strategies within the Trust and your practices.
20. To undertake validation duties in the dispensary within NGH.
21. To supervise, check and, if necessary undertake the supply of medicines in NGH.
22. To line manage and lead those staff allocated, undertaking appraisals, supervision and identification of training and development of their skills and knowledge.
23. To maintain appropriate standards of service and safety; to enforce guidelines, policies and procedures to ensure standards are met.
24. To partake / lead in recruitment of junior pharmacists or other pharmacy staff as required.
25. To assist in the induction of staff into the service; to help identify training and development needs.
26. To attend Clinical Pharmacy meetings and education/training schemes relevant to post.
27. To take part in formal and informal training of pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals in both settings.
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