Lead Pharmacist Surgical Admissions/Trainee ACP
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
We are looking for an innovative, experienced lead pharmacist (8a) or a specialist pharmacist (7-8a progression) to deliver best practice, patient-centred care to our surgical patients.
The post offers the opportunity to deliver and further develop pharmacy services at a senior level in line with the aspirations of the specialty and the pharmacy department, with opportunities to deliver direct clinical care. There is potential to undertake advanced clinical practice qualification in a surgical emergency care setting. We have successfully developed a number of pharmacist ACPs over the last few years and have an established training pathway in conjunction with various higher education institutions. We are keen to explore how this role can be embedded in the surgical division for the right candidate. Alternatively, we can offer the opportunity to develop your clinical, leadership, and managerial skills to suit the role.
For candidates who don't match the 8a essential criteria but are keen to develop their skills and knowledge in this specialist area, we can support you with a 7-8a progression post. With clear goals and objectives defined in a 7-8a development plan, we will support you to reach your full potential of becoming a lead pharmacist.
We can offer you a supportive and training-focused environment within a friendly team.
Main Duties of the Job
Provide direct highly specialised patient care utilising your prescribing skills to our Surgical Admission Unit at Worcestershire Royal Hospital.
1. Assess and identify key areas for service development and expansion in conjunction with the team lead.
2. Become the expert on medications in this field within the directorate, the wider pharmacy team, and across the trust and ICB.
3. Support the wider clinical pharmacy team acting as a role model and team player to ensure we achieve our daily workload.
4. Provide training to the wider MDT on specialist medications, pharmacy services, and act as a trainer, mentor, and designated supervisor for trainee pharmacists and junior pharmacists.
About Us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch, and Worcester.
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
Job Responsibilities
The following job description is for a lead pharmacist (8a) level. Please see band 7 specialist pharmacist JD in supporting documents if needed.
Key Duties:
1. Provide a specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to patients and undertake pharmaceutical risk management for patients within the Surgical Division.
2. Liaise with medical, nursing, and pharmacy staff to identify patients who are planned for discharge and support timely discharge to improve patient flow.
3. Deliver specialised knowledge of medicines and nutrition support to provide advice to consultants, medical, nursing, and pharmacy staff on all pharmaceutical aspects of medicines for patients.
4. Make critical clinical decisions around the pharmaceutical care needs of patients and communicate these decisions to patients and clinical staff accordingly.
5. Prescribe and deprescribe medications as an independent prescriber within GPhC regulations to optimise the pharmaceutical care of patients.
6. Assess and identify key areas for service development and expansion in conjunction with the team lead.
7. Provide pharmaceutical teaching to pharmacy, medical, and nursing staff.
8. Ensure compliance with medicines legislation, the Trust Medicines Policy, Herefordshire and Worcestershire netFormulary, and medicines-related national and local guidelines within the division.
9. Contribute to producing and implementing SOPs, guidelines, and policies to ensure that the use of medications within the post holder's clinical area and medicines management systems are safe, robust, evidence-based, and quality assured.
10. Critically evaluate prescribing practices and amend according to evidence-based practice, national/regional directives, and clinical governance targets on a daily basis, during ward rounds and within the multidisciplinary team.
11. Monitor clinical progress of patients with regards to their medications and act accordingly on results and outcomes to ensure patients receive optimal care.
12. Establish effective working relationships with clinical staff and key stakeholders.
13. Contribute to the day-to-day running of the pharmacy department ensuring core functions are delivered.
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.
* Postgraduate clinical specialist knowledge acquired through diploma level training (i.e., Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent).
* Currently meeting the GPhC standard for continuing professional development.
* Accredited independent prescriber (willing and eligible to complete IP).
* Have undertaken a Health Assessment course.
* Working towards RPS Faculty membership.
* Holds a leadership or management qualification.
* Formal teaching/training on providing feedback.
Experience
* Current experience in delivering specialist clinical services to a specialty or directorate.
* Experience in influencing and persuading senior secondary care clinicians in relation to optimal medicine treatment for patients.
* Working autonomously or as part of an MDT, making prescribing decisions related to medications based on evaluation of evidence and risk/benefit to a patient/patient cohort.
* Experience of preparing and delivering reports, audits, clinical guidelines at directorate/divisional level.
* Extensive experience of successfully supervising and contributing to the training of trainee pharmacists, pharmacists, and pharmacy technical staff.
* Experience in developing and implementing quality improvement.
* Experience of delivering a clinical pharmacy service to the advertised specialist area.
* Experience in running pharmacist-led clinic/outpatient services.
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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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