Are you a specialist pharmacist who wants to develop their skills in
diagnostics and clinical decision making? Or maybe you wish to become a more
autonomous clinician within Acute & Emergency medicine? If so, we are looking
to expand our team and would love to hear from you.
This role will provide you with the skills in order to develop into an
Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP). Through undertaking a funded MSc in
Advanced Clinical Practice, you will utilise both higher education learning
alongside supported ward based teaching, delivered by experienced
professionals. As a trainee ACP you have the perfect opportunity to build a
work-based portfolio and continue to extend your existing skills and achieve
relevant competencies.
Once successfully qualified as a Pharmacist-ACP, you will provide a hybrid
service to Acute and Emergency Medicine areas of the hospital namely, A& E,
Acute Medical Unit, Medical Short Stay unit and within our Medical Same Day
Emergency Care clinics.
We have a friendly, experienced and clinically sophisticated team consisting
of pharmacists, ACPs and consultant physicians to offer all the support you
may need. We have successfully developed a number of pharmacist ACPs over the
last few years and have an established training pathway in conjunction with a
variety of higher education institutions.
Previous applicants need not apply.
**Main duties of the job**
During your training years, you will embed yourself as the specialist
pharmacist, identifying medicine-related and other issues for
attendanceadmission within the urgent care foot print. You will also be
undertaking your MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice which will give you the
opportunity to develop yourself in the four pillars: clinical practice,
leadership, education and research. You will be supported to develop all of
your new-found learning in a supernumerary manner, where you are able to
safely practice with the oversight of experienced clinicians.
As a qualified pharmacist-ACP, your working week is shared between your role
of a pharmacist and ACP. The role of the ACP incorporates all of your
specialist pharmacist knowledge, with the additional learning of diagnostics,
examination and complex clinical decision making, that the MSc ACP course
offers.
Once qualified as a pharmacist-ACP you will be independently reviewing
patients with undifferentiated diagnoses who have presented to hospital. This
includes history-taking, examining patients, requesting & interpreting
investigations (blood tests, radiological imaging etc.) and implementing
management plans.
Whilst undertaking this role, you will be supported by medical teams on a day
to day basis, consisting of a variety of healthcare professionals with a
shared goal of improving patient care and healthcare outcomes for our
population.
**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.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our
Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our
communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward
behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work
and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
* **Best services for local people**
* **Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients**
* **Best use of resources**
* **Best people**
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future
vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider
health and care system.
**We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are
committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex
positive employer.**
**Job description**
**Job responsibilities**
Work independently once qualified or within the MDT, being responsible for
delivering Advanced Clinical Practitioner & Specialist Clinical Pharmacist
roles to the Emergency Department and Acute Medical Directorate at WRH. This
will include assessing patients, identifying medicine-related causes for
attendance & admission and developing treatment plans to optimise care
Function as an Independent Prescriber or de-prescriber as needed, complying
with all requirements of the GPhC in relation to registration as an
independent prescriber and the associated professional responsibilities.
Make critical decisions around the care needs of patients and communicate
these to patients and other staff members accordingly.
Provide a specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to
patients and undertake pharmaceutical risk management to allocated wards
within the Acute Medical Directorate and the Emergency Department, WRH.
Use his or her specialised knowledge of medicines to advise consultants,
medical, nursing and pharmacy staff on all pharmaceutical aspects of medicines
for Acute Medical patients.
Deliver pharmaceutical care to patients in the Acute Medical Directorate and
Emergency Department recommend, substantiate and communicate best therapeutic
options for patients and implement changes in prescribing practice to ensure
evidence-based medicine is followed as appropriate.
Undertake risk management for the pharmacy service to the Emergency Department
and the Acute Medical Directorate and ensure compliance with medicines
legislation, the Trust Medicines Policy, and medicines related national and
local guidelines.
Undertake clinical audit of medicine use and pharmacy services within the
Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Department WRH.
Ensure pharmaceutical aspects of research and clinical trials in acute
medicine comply with relevant legislation and conduct own practice-based
auditresearch on pharmaceutical aspects of acute medicine.
Contribute to keeping the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Departments
drug expenditure within agreed budgets.
See full job description for further information.
**Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment:**
As part of the Trusts aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive
action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled
and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed
Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person
specification for this role.
Applicants will be prompted in the application form to declare if they wish to
be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, and their
response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.
If you have any queries about expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please
contact Rob Saunders (HR Manager - Recruitment) in confidence via email
robert.saunders1@nhs.net
**Person Specification**
**Qualifications**
**Essential**
* Professional knowledge acquired through a vocational degree in pharmacy.
* Currently Registered as a pharmacist in UK: Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Clinical specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate level training e.g. Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, RPS advanced level framework or specialist clinical modules relevant to the role.
* Currently meeting the GPhC standard for continuing professional development.
**Desirable**
* Accredited independent prescriber.
* Have undertaken a Health Assessment course.
* Working towards RPS Faculty membership.
* Holds or working towards formal teaching training on providing feedback.
* Holds or working towards a leadership or management qualification e.g. Mary Seacole programme.
**Experience**
**Essential**
* Current experience in delivering specialist clinical services to the relevant speciality or directorate.
* Experience in influencing and persuading senior clinicians in relation to optimal medicine treatment for patients.
* Experienceinvolvement in implementation of service improvements.
* Experience of preparing and delivering reports, audits, clinical guidelines.
* Experience in reviewing medication errors to analyse for trends or complete root cause analysis.
* Experience of successfully supervising and contributing to the training of Pharmacists and Pharmacy technicians.
* Experience in providing an on-call or resident Pharmacy service.
**Desirable**
* Practising Prescriber.
* Experience in training doctors and nurses.
* Experience of leading a team.
* Experience of providing specialist clinical pharmacy service to Acute or Emergency Medicine.
**Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment**
**Essential**
* As part of the Trusts aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Here you can declare if you wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme and this response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.
**Employer details**
**Employer name**
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
**Address**
Charles Hastings Way
Worcester
Worcestershire
WR5 1DD
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