Trainee Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Pharmacist (Band 7-8a)
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
Are you a specialist pharmacist who wants to develop their skills in diagnostics and clinical decision making? Or maybe you wish to become a more autonomous clinician within Acute & Emergency medicine? If so, we are looking to expand our team and would love to hear from you.
This role will provide you with the skills to develop into an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP). Through undertaking a funded MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice, you will utilise both higher education learning alongside supported ward-based teaching, delivered by experienced professionals. As a trainee ACP, you have the perfect opportunity to build a work-based portfolio and continue to extend your existing skills and achieve relevant competencies.
Once successfully qualified as a Pharmacist-ACP, you will provide a hybrid service to Acute and Emergency Medicine areas of the hospital namely, A&E, Acute Medical Unit, Medical Short Stay unit, and within our Medical Same Day Emergency Care clinics.
We have a friendly, experienced, and clinically sophisticated team consisting of pharmacists, ACPs, and consultant physicians to offer all the support you may need. We have successfully developed a number of pharmacist ACPs over the last few years and have an established training pathway in conjunction with a variety of higher education institutions.
Main Duties of the Job
During your training years, you will embed yourself as the specialist pharmacist, identifying medicine-related and other issues for attendance/admission within the urgent care footprint. You will also be undertaking your MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice which will give you the opportunity to develop yourself in the four pillars: clinical practice, leadership, education, and research. You will be supported to develop all of your new-found learning in a supernumerary manner, where you are able to safely practice with the oversight of experienced clinicians.
As a qualified pharmacist-ACP, your working week is shared between your role of a pharmacist and ACP. The role of the ACP incorporates all of your specialist pharmacist knowledge, with the additional learning of diagnostics, examination, and complex clinical decision making that the MSc ACP course offers.
Once qualified as a pharmacist-ACP, you will be independently reviewing patients with undifferentiated diagnoses who have presented to the hospital. This includes history-taking, examining patients, requesting & interpreting investigations (blood tests, radiological imaging, etc.) and implementing management plans.
While undertaking this role, you will be supported by medical teams on a day-to-day basis, consisting of a variety of healthcare professionals with a shared goal of improving patient care and healthcare outcomes for our population.
Job Responsibilities
Work independently once qualified or within the MDT, being responsible for delivering Advanced Clinical Practitioner & Specialist Clinical Pharmacist roles to the Emergency Department and Acute Medical Directorate at WRH. This will include assessing patients, identifying medicine-related causes for attendance & admission, and developing treatment plans to optimise care.
Function as an Independent Prescriber or de-prescriber as needed, complying with all requirements of the GPhC in relation to registration as an independent prescriber and the associated professional responsibilities.
Make critical decisions around the care needs of patients and communicate these to patients and other staff members accordingly.
Provide a specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to patients and undertake pharmaceutical risk management to allocated wards within the Acute Medical Directorate and the Emergency Department, WRH.
Use your specialised knowledge of medicines to advise consultants, medical, nursing, and pharmacy staff on all pharmaceutical aspects of medicines for Acute Medical patients.
Deliver pharmaceutical care to patients in the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Department; recommend, substantiate, and communicate best therapeutic options for patients and implement changes in prescribing practice to ensure evidence-based medicine is followed as appropriate.
Undertake risk management for the pharmacy service to the Emergency Department and the Acute Medical Directorate and ensure compliance with medicines legislation, the Trust Medicines Policy, and medicines-related national and local guidelines.
Undertake clinical audit of medicine use and pharmacy services within the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Department WRH.
Ensure pharmaceutical aspects of research and clinical trials in acute medicine comply with relevant legislation and conduct your own practice-based audit/research on pharmaceutical aspects of acute medicine.
Contribute to keeping the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Departments drug expenditure within agreed budgets.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Professional knowledge acquired through a vocational degree in pharmacy.
* Currently Registered as a pharmacist in the UK: Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Clinical specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate level training e.g. Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, RPS advanced level framework or specialist clinical modules relevant to the role.
* Currently meeting the GPhC standard for continuing professional development.
* Accredited independent prescriber.
* Have undertaken a Health Assessment course.
* Working towards RPS Faculty membership.
* Holds or working towards formal teaching/training on providing feedback.
* Holds or working towards a leadership or management qualification e.g. Mary Seacole programme.
Experience
* Current experience in delivering specialist clinical services to the relevant speciality or directorate.
* Experience in influencing and persuading senior clinicians regarding optimal medicine treatment for patients.
* Experience/involvement in the implementation of service improvements.
* Experience of preparing and delivering reports, audits, clinical guidelines.
* Experience in reviewing medication errors to analyse for trends or complete root cause analysis.
* Experience of successfully supervising and contributing to the training of Pharmacists and Pharmacy technicians.
* Experience in providing an on-call or resident Pharmacy service.
* Practising Prescriber.
* Experience in training doctors and nurses.
* Experience of leading a team.
* Experience of providing specialist clinical pharmacy service to Acute or Emergency Medicine.
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.
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