Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Elective Surgical Pathway
Band 7
Main area Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Elective Surgical Pathway Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (to include 7 day working and on call duty) Job ref 265-6861555
Site Northampton General Hospital Town Northampton Salary £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum Salary period Yearly Closing 21/01/2025 23:59
This is an exciting time to join our Elective Surgical Admissions team as we expand Dedicated Ward Pharmacy (DWP) across the entire trust. Your role will be pivotal in enhancing elective patient care throughout their pre-operative journey, working in both the Pre-Operative Assessment Clinic (POAC) and our Main Theatres Admission Unit (MTAU), where we have an established pharmacist and Medicines Management Team (MMT).
You’ll receive full support from our Advanced Pharmacists for MTAU and POAC to ensure you can make a meaningful impact.
Main duties of the job
You will be an integral part of the pharmacy team responsible for the pharmaceutical care of elective patients during their entire perioperative journey. This includes:
* Pre-Operative Assessment Clinic (POAC): Collaborating with anaesthetists, surgeons, and other MDT members to optimise pharmaceutical management.
* Main Theatres Admission Unit (MTAU): Assessing patients on the day of surgery and ensuring they receive the appropriate pharmaceutical care.
* Surgical Wards: Following up with patients post-surgery, providing pharmacy support across all surgical wards, and contributing to care in our new Critical Care unit.
Your responsibilities will also extend to attending consultant-led ward rounds, including those by the Acute Pain Team and Nutrition Team, and offering advice and education to medical and nursing staff. You will play a key role in developing and implementing medicines management policies and procedures.
We are committed to your professional development, offering opportunities to further your clinical qualifications, including independent prescribing if needed. While this is a full-time position, we are open to considering part-time arrangements. Also, if you don’t meet all the essential criteria for the Band 7 role this time, there may be an opportunity for a Band 6 to 7 progression post!
Working for our organisation
Northampton General Hospital is one of the largest employers in the area and we are on an exciting journey. All of our divisions are committed to doing things better, with more efficiency as we update, modernise, and advance. We have also entered into 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. As an organisation, we value how we communicate and promote our vacancies to all communities.
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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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The main responsibilities of the post include the following:
* Speciality Pharmacy Role - Elective Surgical Pharmacy
* To support the Advanced Clinical Pharmacists in POAC and MTAU and Principal Pharmacist, Surgery.
* Have a working knowledge of current perioperative practice and protocols related to medicines and how these relate to national and other guidance.
* To participate in the clinical/advisory Pharmacy Service, specifically to the POAC to MTAU.
* To support Surgical Services including providing pharmacy support to a named surgical directorate.
* Provide specialist pharmacy input into Theatre areas.
* To optimise medicines through prescribing role operating within areas of competence (where appropriately qualified and authorised via the Trust NMP register).
* To identify new opportunities for the development of Pharmacy Services, and assist in the preparation of business cases to support these developments.
* To support the training of all (medical, nursing and pharmacy) staff across the division.
* To identify and support the Cost Improvement Programme, and contribute to the Directorate Prescribing Reports, which monitor, analyse and report on medicine use and expenditure.
* To develop/review relevant Trust Clinical Guidelines, PGDs etc.
Clinical Services
* To provide information, advice and guidance on the safe, effective and economical use of medicines and to challenge poor practice.
* To optimise medicines management by reconciling drug histories, performing structured medication reviews and using patients’ own medicines.
* To detect, record and report adverse drug reactions to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and via Datix as per Trust Policy or via practice policy, as appropriate.
* To record your clinical activity and to monitor the outcome of your advice.
* To monitor interventions in treatment to identify training and information needs.
* To fulfil the requirements of the Code of Ethics and Standards of Good Professional Practice.
* To participate in CQUINs and QIPPs at NGH.
* To implement countywide and local prescribing strategies within the Trust and your practices.
* Facilitate the expansion of the tools within EPMA within NGH.
* To undertake validation duties in the dispensary within NGH.
* To supervise, check and, if necessary undertake the supply of medicines in NGH. Technical checking is in place; pharmacists make initial validations and have a professional responsibility to decide on the need for their further involvement in the supply process.
Management & Supervision
* 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 maintain appropriate standards of service and safety; to enforce guidelines, policies and procedures to ensure standards are met.
* To partake / lead in recruitment of junior pharmacists or other pharmacy staff as required.
* Deputise for Advanced/Lead Pharmacists, when required.
Education & Training
* To attend Clinical Pharmacy meetings and education/training schemes relevant to post.
* To take part in formal and informal training of pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals in both settings. For example at NGH, including training for Technicians enhanced patient counselling skills and Medicines Management Technician training.
Person specification
Education, Training and Qualifications
* 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 Certificate in Independent Prescribing
Knowledge and Experience
* Post-registration clinical pharmacy experience within hospital, PCN, community including at least four 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 a 2-3 year period).
* Teaching, supervising and training staff
* NHS arrangements, eg CCGs, NICE, CQC, Clinical Governance, PCNs, NHS Digital
* Experience of prescribing within a speciality to optimise medicines for specific patient groups.
Skills
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 Claire Harvey Job title Principal Pharmacist, Surgery Email address claire.harvey25@nhs.net Telephone number 01604545692 Additional information
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