We have a new opportunity for a Band 7 Ward Pharmacist in Whitehaven.
Here are the key details to consider for this role:
* Contract: 3 – 6 Month Contract
* Shift: Full-Time
* Hours: 37.5 hours a week, 7 day service
* Pay Rate: Up to £31 per hour
Duties:
* Deliver a standard of care according to pharmaceutical and Trust policies to patients with a range of pharmaceutical needs on a designated group of wards.
* Provide broad clinical and pharmaceutical advice to the medicine management team.
* Ensure individualised, safe and cost-effective re-use of patients' own medication and continuing medicine requirements.
* Provide early coordination and implementation of a timely and effective discharge planning process at the bedside, including authorising discharge prescriptions, communication to patients, GPs, community pharmacists and other agencies e.g. nursing homes and community hospitals, highlighting changes in medication and organising ongoing medication compliance aids.
* Liaise with and support other pharmacists within the locality and in other Trusts.
* Monitor and influence the practice of other healthcare providers, including medical staff, to ensure that prescribing and medicine use is safe and effective for the patient. Provide accurate, impartial, evaluated, up-to-date information and advice about medicines to the general public and other health professionals.
* Take responsibility for the coordination of an evaluation process for all inpatient and discharge prescriptions involving searching and interpreting biochemical and haematological results and other clinical data.
* Deal with sensitive and emotional issues that relate to a patient’s diagnosis and drug treatment; communicate and convey information to the recipient in an appropriate manner and with the appropriate terminology.
* Carry a bleep to ensure availability for any urgent requests for advice or pharmaceutical services throughout the working day.
* Ensure the accuracy of medicines reconciliation for patients within the designated wards by proactively seeking information from relevant sources e.g. GP, SCR.
* When the need arises, take responsibility for carrying out high-quality medication counselling on the wards and to outpatients, as requested by patients, nursing and medical staff.
* Provide medicines information including e.g. stability, storage, legislation, compatibility, dosage and adverse drug reaction data in a prompt and definitive manner, particularly for urgent requests to enquiries.
* Provide, on a planned basis, clinical advice and professional support to the dispensaries in the acute Trust, participating in the work of the dispensaries and other operational elements of the service, to include professional supervision of other pharmacy staff, initial clinical checking of all prescriptions, accurate dispensing, and final accuracy checking of other pharmacy staff's work.
* Advise on pharmaceutical stability and be the nominated authorising pharmacist responsible for releasing products prepared in the aseptic unit under section 10 exemption for individual patient requirements.
* Engage in activities relating to clinical effectiveness including drug use evaluation, clinical self-audit and contribute to ongoing measures of service evaluation.
* Take part in the emergency out-of-hours rota, providing advice to hospital staff, outside agencies, patients and carers concerning all aspects of medicines management, supplying medication to wards/departments within the Trust or other Trusts, sourcing supplies of medicines not held within the department from other Trusts, wholesalers or manufacturers as necessary.
* Comply with infection prevention and control procedures at all times.
* Comply with the responsibility to safeguard children and vulnerable adults, ensuring attendance at appropriate training.
Experience:
* MPharm or equivalent
* Registration with The General Pharmaceutical Council
* Broad Clinical/Pharmaceutical Knowledge
* Current issues within the pharmacy/NHS
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