We are currently looking for a Pharmacist to work on a Bank contract, based at Kingsley Green, Radlett. This will be at a Band 8 level.
Travel within the areas covered by HPFT is necessary.
You will be joining and supporting an innovative, award-winning pharmacy team who are forward-thinking and are leading the medicines optimisation agenda trust-wide.
All applicants will need a current registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Main duties of the job
Provide highly specialist pharmaceutical advice concerning the care and treatment of service users in Mental Health (including Forensics) and Learning Disabilities Services and promote safe, effective, and evidence-based cost-effective use of medicines within the Trust.
Actively lead the provision and development of pharmaceutical services to a specific service line.
Provide highly specific advice to clinical team members on the management of complex medicines-related issues, such as complex drug interactions, medicines use in pregnancy, unlicensed/off-label use of medicines, etc.
Provide and receive highly complex, highly sensitive or contentious information, where developed persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathetic or reassurance skills are required. This may involve presenting complex, sensitive, or contentious information to a large group of staff, service users, or carers.
About us
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust is one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission.
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provides health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health, and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence, and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical Responsibility: To provide highly specific advice to clinical team members on the management of complex medicines-related issues, such as complex drug interactions, medicines use in pregnancy, unlicensed/off-label use of medicines, etc. To work as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide clinical pharmaceutical support to designated areas to maximize benefits and minimize risk to service users. This will include medicines reconciliation, prescription review, medication reviews, identification and management of drug interactions and adverse effects, advice on clinical monitoring, medicines information, advising on supply problems, compliance with Medicines legislation, compliance with Trust policies and guidelines, and participation in multidisciplinary team meetings where appropriate.
Accurately and efficiently screen, dispense, and check prescriptions for inpatients, leave, and discharge medication to facilitate and ensure the safe and effective administration and use of medication. To carry out medication reviews and provide a clinical pharmacy service and pharmaceutical advice and support to designated mental health or learning disabilities units or teams within the remit of HPFT. These reviews will support clinicians preparing care plans for individual service users. To act as an autonomous, registered practitioner who is legally and professionally accountable for own unsupervised actions guided by the professional code of conduct and Trust guidelines and protocols. Where prescribing medicines as part of the role, to adhere to the Trust Non-Medical Prescribing policy within the area of competence.
To have current effective status on the General Pharmaceutical Council. To have gained further professional and clinical knowledge through accredited courses, workshops, study, and in-house training programmes. Provides clinical supervision and training to junior clinical pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. To ensure appropriate medicines optimisation, clinical review, and risk assessment as deemed necessary when prescribing, reviewing, or advising on medicines-related issues to service users and the wider multidisciplinary team in a range of settings, inpatient or community. To provide service users and relatives with medicines information and education, ensuring they have meaningful choices that promote dignity, independence, and quality of life. To ensure practice is supported by research, evidence-based practice, literature, and peer review. To supervise the competence of pharmacy staff in clinical service provision in line with the Clinical Pharmacy Standards.
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS/EDUCATION/TRAINING
Essential
* BPharm / MPharm / BSc Pharmacy
* Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
EXPERIENCE
Essential
* Experience of working in a secondary care setting (demonstrable post-qualification hospital pharmacy practice)
* Documented evidence of completed audit work and research practice
SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITY
Essential
* Experience of delivering training to staff
PHYSICAL SKILLS
Essential
* Able to travel using own vehicle to various Trust and other locations across Hertfordshire. *Car driver (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 which prevents you from driving)
Employer details
Employer name
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Pharmacy Dept, Kingfisher Court, Kingsley Green, Herts, WD7 9HQ
Radlett
WD7 9HQ
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