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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Medicines Information
1. Provide evaluated medicines information and advice from a variety of sources including clinical trials and published literature to pharmacy, medical and nursing staff, allied healthcare professionals and members of the public (via the medicines helpline) at all levels to promote the safe, effective, evidence-based and economic use of medicines thus optimising individual patient therapy.
2. Assist in the production of proactive medicines information aimed at improving prescribing and practice, and therefore patient care both in and outside the pharmacy, through personal communication, memos and bulletins.
3. In conjunction with the Lead pharmacists, Medicines Information, ensure that all standard operating procedures relating to the provision of medicines information are in place and current and all resources are up to date.
4. Support the training and development of junior medicines information staff and Lead Technician, Medicines Information and be actively involved in checking and reviewing their enquiries where necessary.
5. Contribute to a peer review system and assist with the audit of enquiries in accordance with clinical governance requirements.
6. To support and if necessary represent the Lead pharmacists, Medicines Information in all aspects pertaining to the management of the pharmacy department's Medicines Information service.
7. As part of the Medicines Information team, ensure that drug recalls and alerts received into the Trust are dealt with in a timely manner.
8. Maintain contact with appropriate specialists and groups both nationally and locally to enable best practice to be identified and incorporated into NUH practice.
9. To support the provision and update of monographs for the NHS Injectable Medicines guide.
Core Clinical duties (3.75-18.75 hours per week)
1. To ensure safe rational and effective prescribing by undertaking medication reconciliation, assessing suitability of prescribed medication, enabling use of patient's own medicines and patient self-administration, counselling (to optimise medicines use), and ensuring continuity of patient care into the community.
2. Providing medicines for individual patients during their stay in hospital, at discharge and also for out-patient visits.
3. Interpreting and requesting clinical tests to monitor and make recommendations to improve effectiveness of drug therapy.
4. Pro-actively liaising with other members of the multidisciplinary team (medical staff, nurses, microbiologists, physiotherapists, dieticians) in order to ensure safe use of medicines.
5. Making recommendations about medicines to improve patient outcomes and to encourage adherence to hospital formulary and national guidelines.
Person specification
Training and qualifications
Essential criteria
* Diploma/MSc in clinical pharmacy or other appropriate qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
* Wide previous experience (post registration) in hospital pharmacy
* Knowledge of medicines information resources and systems
Communication skills
Essential criteria
* Good interpersonal, negotiating and presentation skills, both written and verbal
* Good communication skills with multidisciplinary team members and own profession
Analytical and judgement skills
Essential criteria
* Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, drug therapy decisions and patient information
* Able to analyse patient specific data to advise on therapy management
Organisational skills
Essential criteria
* Organised, able to prioritise own work and assist others to prioritise.
Physical skills
Essential criteria
* Competent ICT skills, word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, databases, retrieval of information from the internet
Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.
Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.
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