Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Clinical & High-cost Medicine
Band 7
Main area: High-Cost Medicine
Grade: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 265-6890744
Site: Northampton General Hospital
Town: Northampton
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum + on-call payment
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 18/02/2025 23:59
An opportunity has arisen for a motivated clinical pharmacist who wishes to develop specialist knowledge and skills in high-cost drugs provision across various clinical specialties. You will support the Principal Pharmacist - High-cost drugs in ensuring cost-effective use of this group of medicines excluded from the NHS tariff payment system to meet commissioner requirements.
You will have the opportunity to work in a multi-disciplinary setting, liaising with clinicians, specialist nurses, as well as external organisations such as homecare providers to ensure safe, robust management of medicines to meet both clinical and patient needs.
This role will enable you to further utilise your clinical knowledge, developing your influential and critical evaluation skills to drive service improvement.
Throughout our department, we have a very strong team ethos and you will have good support from your peers, the senior pharmacists and technicians. You will work closely with our team of clinical pharmacists. We are in the process of implementing electronic prescribing and medicines administration on all our inpatient wards.
Main duties of the job
You will be working within our established high-cost drugs and homecare pharmacy team in the management and monitoring of high-cost medicines prescribing such as biologics. In addition, you will provide pharmaceutical support to clinical areas that are high-users of high-cost drugs including rheumatology, dermatology, neurology, and the adult medical day case unit. The role involves medicines advice, cost-impact analysis, as well as leading on the safe introduction of new high-cost medicines. You will regularly undertake work-based projects, service reviews, audits, and participate in medicines pathway design and medicines optimisation agendas at local and regional levels.
You will also be part of the wider clinical pharmacy team responsible for the pharmaceutical care of our patients from admission through to discharge. This involves regular ward clinical commitments to enable you to develop close relationships with the wider Pharmacy team. You will be expected to use your prescribing skills as part of your specialist clinical pharmacist role. If you are not already a prescriber, we will support you to achieve this qualification.
Working for our organisation
Please submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close any adverts before the closing date once we have received sufficient applications.
Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered a Group Model with neighbouring Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and become University Hospitals of Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values
* Compassion
* Accountability
* Respect
* Integrity
* Courage
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone's full potential.
The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Specialist Clinical Pharmacy Service:
* To provide information, advice, and guidance on the safe, effective, and economical use of medicines and to challenge poor practice.
* To maintain appropriate standards of service and safety; to develop and enforce guidelines, policies, and procedures to ensure standards are met.
* To optimise medicines management by reconciling drug histories, performing medication reviews, counselling, and using patients' own medicines.
* To undertake adverse drug reactions and incident reporting where necessary.
* To record your clinical activity and monitor the outcome of your advice.
* To participate in CQUINs and best value medicines pertinent to your area of specialty.
* To lead and support the quality improvement of medicines.
* To implement countywide and local prescribing strategies within the Trust.
* To undertake independent prescribing if/when qualified as an Independent Prescriber.
* To facilitate the expansion of the tools within EPMA.
* To support the development and implementation of medicines-related guidance, policies, and procedures within specialty areas.
* To fulfil the requirements of the Code of Ethics and Standards of Good Professional Practice.
* To implement the Duty of Candour.
* To develop specialist expertise in areas with a high use of medicines excluded from the NHS Payment System, i.e., high-cost drugs.
* To have a working knowledge of current practices and protocols in these specialties.
* To facilitate the development and implementation of high-cost drugs-related guidelines.
* To support the high-cost drugs and homecare team on the appropriate prescribing, validation, and supply of high-cost drugs.
* To lead the auditing of medicines within specialist areas.
* To undertake work-based QI projects with the support of the Principal High-cost drugs pharmacist and/or Homecare lead pharmacist.
* To undertake data analysis and reporting relating to high-cost drugs to meet the requirements stipulated by commissioners.
* To attend appropriate Directorate meetings to ensure that pharmaceutical issues are considered.
Education, Training and Supervision
* Attend clinical pharmacy team meetings and education/training schemes relevant to the post.
* To take part in the formal and informal training of pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals.
* To be a supervisor on the Clinical Pharmacy Diploma course.
* To supervise aspects of pharmacist trainee training.
* To line manage and lead those staff allocated, undertaking appraisals, supervision, and identification of training and development of their skills and knowledge.
* To assist in the induction of staff into the service; to help identify training and development needs.
* To provide information to patients, parents, and carers on admission, discharge, and in outpatient clinics regarding treatment and medication to optimise patient concordance.
* To maintain up-to-date clinical knowledge in clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice to ensure a broad base of pharmaceutical knowledge, clinical reasoning, and judgement.
* To take responsibility for own personal CPD by participating in education and training programmes to improve competence.
* To develop specialist expertise in the chosen specialty area.
* To obtain/maintain prescribing qualification and support specialty clinics and ward rounds as appropriate.
* To help provide training for Technician’s enhanced patient counselling skills and Medicines Management Technician training.
Other Duties:
* To undertake duties elsewhere in the locality, if required.
* To undertake on-call duties.
* To provide a pharmacy service at weekends.
Person specification
Education, Training and Qualification
* BPharm or MPharm degree
* Member of General Pharmaceutical Council
* Achieved (or working towards) postgraduate clinical qualification (or equivalent knowledge/experience)
* Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
* Practice Certification in Independent Prescribing
* Member of UKCPA, PCPA, or other relevant specialist body
* Medicines Information training
Knowledge and Experience
* Post-registration hospital clinical pharmacy experience including at least 4 of the following specialties: Medicine (or medical specialties), Care of the Older Person, Surgery (or surgical specialties), Paediatrics, Medicines Information, Oncology/Haematology, Aseptics (this would normally be achieved over at least 2 - 3 year period)
* Experience working as part of a multidisciplinary team
* Clinical Audit/QI Service Improvement or practice research experience
* Demonstrates a level of clinical reasoning, problem-solving, and judgement
* Literature searching and critical appraisal of clinical trials evidence
* Good core clinical knowledge of therapeutics and pharmacology
* Numeracy
* Good interpersonal/excellent communication of highly complex information to a wide variety of audiences
* NHS arrangements, e.g., ICBs, NICE, CQC, Clinical Governance, PCNs, NHS digital
* Teaching, supervising, and training staff
* Independent prescribing or working towards Independent Prescribing qualification
* Experience in supporting Directorate Pharmacist or equivalent, to include financial reporting, formulary application, guideline writing
* Experience of electronic prescribing and administration systems and electronic patient records
* Staff supervision
* Experience in risk management
Skills
* Ability to work under pressure
* Ability to prioritise and delegate
* Ability to work alone or as a team member
* Time management
At Northampton General Hospital, we provide general acute services and hyper-acute stroke, vascular, and renal services to people living in Northamptonshire. As well as this, we are an accredited cancer centre and provide cancer services to a wider population of Northamptonshire and parts of Buckinghamshire.
We are proud to be the first hospital in the UK to have obtained Pathway to Excellence designated accreditation from the American Nurses Credentialing Centre (ANCC).
We celebrate staff achievements and value the importance of working as one big team. That’s why we talk about Team NGH. It’s all about working together to provide the best possible care for our patients and supporting each other to grow and develop our skills. We are driven to helping you to be the best you can be.
We want to recruit the best people to deliver our services across the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire and help to unleash everyone’s full potential. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities. The Hospital Group encourages applications from people who identify from all protected groups, especially those from BAME, Disabled, and LGBTQ+ backgrounds as these are underrepresented in our hospitals. We understand that we need to work with colleagues from diverse backgrounds and make sure the environment they work in is inclusive and collaborative. We have active Networks that promote and support colleagues from all backgrounds. This ensures everyone feels supported and has a sense of belonging working for Kettering and Northampton General Hospitals.
Apply today and join the largest family in Northamptonshire.
Our Excellence Values:
* Compassion
* Respect
* Integrity
* Courageous
* Accountable
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Name: Pooi Lim
Job title: Principal Pharmacist - High-cost Medicine
Email address: pooilim@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01604545708
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