Advance Clinical Pharmacist Paediatric and Neonatal Nutrition
The paediatric pharmacy team at Leeds Children's Hospital has an exciting opportunity to join our dynamic, friendly, and forward-thinking team as the Advanced Clinical Pharmacist for Paediatric and Neonatal Nutrition.
To be successful you will be an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist who can lead and develop the pharmacy service within the paediatric nutrition team. The nutrition service sees children from Leeds and around Yorkshire with a wide range of disorders, such as intestinal failure, feeding difficulties, poor growth, gastroesophageal reflux, gut dysmotility, coeliac disease, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis.
You will have a passion for making a difference to patient care and be committed to working collaboratively with both pharmacy colleagues and the multidisciplinary team. Paediatric nutrition experience is preferred but not essential, and you would be supported by the team to develop knowledge in the area.
Main Duties of the Job
You will lead the specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients within paediatric nutrition. You will provide expert clinical pharmacy input and oversight to the areas you work. You will organise, prescribe, and advise on patients requiring parenteral nutrition within Leeds Children's Hospital alongside our paediatric home parenteral nutrition patients. The post will give you the opportunity to be an integral part of the MDT. You will monitor and report on clinical and financial governance of medicines, advise on potential improvements, and lead on these where appropriate. You will be responsible for recording and interpreting blood results and adjusting formulations to meet both clinical need and formulation compounding stability. Education and training are integral to how we work as a team, and you will undertake clinical supervision of rotational pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, and trainee pharmacists and have an active role in the education and training of both pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals.
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, alongside a postgraduate diploma or equivalent experience, are required. Ideally, you will have paediatric experience and you will be a qualified independent prescriber. You will be committed to leading and developing a team of pharmacists and pharmacy technicians and take an active role in the education and training of both pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals.
About Us
Based within Leeds General Infirmary, in the centre of Leeds, Leeds Children's Hospital is one of the largest children's hospitals in the UK and treats patients from across Yorkshire and the North of England as a secondary and tertiary referral centre.
The pharmacy department at Leeds is nationally recognised as an exemplar service. Our vision is making it easy for people to get the most from their medicines, and we are continually innovating to improve our services for patients and staff.
Job Responsibilities
Job Title: Advanced Clinical Pharmacist
Reports to: Clinical Pharmacy Team Leader
Accountable to: Clinical Pharmacy Team Leader
Band: 8a
Unit/Department: Pharmacy
Clinical Services Unit: Medicines Management and Pharmacy Services
Location: Trustwide
Job Purpose: To deliver and develop specialist clinical pharmacy services to Leeds Children's Hospital within the Trust.
Job Dimensions: There are no line management responsibilities attached to this post. Reporting to the Clinical Pharmacy Team Leader, the post holder will be responsible for the day-to-day clinical pharmacy service to inpatients ward at LTH. The post holder will communicate across multi-disciplinary teams providing specialist advice on the appropriateness of medicines prescribed, across paediatric clinical specialties.
Ensure medicines are used appropriately, safely, and cost-effectively in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures, and medicines legislation.
Monitors use of medicines within inpatient prescribing. This includes recording significant clinical interventions, risk management, and some basic financial aspects.
Support other members of the team with specialist advice regarding the development and implementation of treatment protocols and guidelines for use of drugs within the clinical areas.
Responsible for training pharmacists and other healthcare professionals on aspects of drug use within the outpatient clinics.
Provides service cover in the dispensary, aseptics with ward cover when and if required. Participates in the department's weekend and Bank Holiday rotas and where appropriate, out of hours services.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience Required
* Master of Pharmacy degree (4 years), or equivalent qualification, plus 1 year pre-registration training.
* Registrant of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Ability to demonstrate competency in all domains of the General Level Framework (GLF).
* Substantial post-registration experience as a practising pharmacist.
* Experience of dealing with complex clinical issues that require the analysis of a variety of sources of information.
* Experience of dealing with clinical and non-clinical staff, typically at junior grades, but occasionally at higher consultant and managerial levels.
* Ability to comprehensively counsel patients on the use or sales of medication ensuring appropriate advice is supported by written information using patient information leaflets.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registrant of General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
* Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
* Non-Medical Prescriber
Skills & Behaviours
* Lateral thinker
* Confident
* Adaptable
* Negotiation and influencing skills
Additional Requirements
Experience
* Understanding and appreciation of local and national pharmaceutical and clinical strategies.
* Substantial post-registration experience as a practising pharmacist.
* Highly developed patient counselling skills.
* Hospital pharmacy experience.
* Specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge over a wide range of specialties.
* Specialist clinical pharmacy experience in nutrition.
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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