Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts
As the Senior Pharmacist - Anticoagulation/Stroke, you will work across both the anticoagulation and stroke services at Nottingham University Hospitals. You will join the pharmacy stroke team, working alongside the Specialist Pharmacists for Stroke and Chief Pharmacy Technician - Stroke to provide a consistent, high level pharmacy service to the Stroke inpatient wards.
Within the anticoagulation service, you will work with the Specialist Pharmacist - Anticoagulation and the anticoagulation nurses and clinicians to support patients on anticoagulation therapy.
This role also offers the opportunity to be involved with quality improvement, monitoring medication incidents, governance, and education and training for both qualified staff and student members.
This is an exciting position that facilitates multidisciplinary working, providing a service to both inpatients and outpatients at Nottingham University Hospitals, while gaining specialist knowledge in the areas of both anticoagulation and stroke.
The job role is based at Queens Medical Centre, but there may be occasions where the post holder is required to work at the City Hospital campus as per service needs. The post holder may also be required to work clinically on other wards within the integrated care directorate as per service needs.
Main duties of the job
1. To partake in clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken in the Integrated Care Directorate wards and the anticoagulation service.
2. Leadership, management, and divisional/service support roles.
3. To line manage and support more junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.
4. To take full part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holiday duties.
Person Specification
Training & Qualifications
* B.Pharm / BSc (Pharmacy) or MPharm
* GPhC registered
* Diploma/MSc in clinical pharmacy or other appropriate postgraduate qualification
* Independent Prescribing Qualification, or willingness to complete within 12 months
* Training in or experience of prescribing in anticoagulation use and dosing
Experience
* Wide previous experience (post registration) in hospital pharmacy
* Broad knowledge base of clinical areas
* Experience of day-to-day supervision and assisting in training of pre-registration pharmacists and/or technicians
* Understanding of issues affecting the NHS
* Evidence of project work completed
* Experience of working within stroke or anticoagulation specialities
* Experience of working in outpatient clinic
* Experience in undertaking, and reporting/presenting audit/research work at local (Trust) level
* Experience working with patients with speech and swallowing difficulties
Communication and Relationship Skills
* Good interpersonal, negotiating, and presentation skills, both written and verbal
* Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams
* Good communication skills with multidisciplinary team members and own profession
* Able to defend opinions in a constructive manner when challenged
* Empathy with patients, relatives, and pharmacy customers
* Excellent communication skills with patients and carers
* Teaching skills
Analytical and Judgement Skills
* Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, production issues, drug therapy decisions, and patient information
* Able to assess and minimise the risk in medication processes
* Able to analyse patient-specific data to advise on therapy management
* Experience of analysing expenditure
Planning and Organisation Skills
* Organised, able to prioritise own work and assist others to prioritise
* Positive thinker
Physical Skills
* Competent ICT skills, word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, databases, retrieval of information from the internet
Other requirements
* Self-motivated, conscientious, confident, accurate, assertive
* Ability to work alone and make decisions including when participating in senior on-call rota
* Weekend and shift working as per job description
* Must have the ability to wear appropriate PPE required for the role
Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
* Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trust's 'We are here for you' behavioural standards
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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