Job Overview
* To provide a clinical pharmacy service to the Emergency Department and surrounding acute areas.
* To work with other senior pharmacists to develop the clinical pharmacy service to patients within the Emergency Department and other acute areas
* The provision of a clinical pharmacy service to patients within the Emergency Department
* To support the training and development of pharmacist independent prescribers
* To act as a role model in the field of clinical pharmacy practice and provide a consistently high standard of clinical service in line with the pharmacy objectives.
* The recruitment, management, and development of staff under the postholder.
Main duties of the job
To work closely with the senior pharmacists, clinicians, nursing staff and other senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to patients within the directorate. To ensure close relations cross-site with the pharmacy team across all sites. To attend ward rounds when appropriate and able.
Provide a Clinical Pharmacy Service To Specialised Areas And a Clinical Pharmacy Service To Cover Other Areas When Ward Cover Is Needed. The Service Includes:
* Assessing pharmaceutical care needs
* Initiating and carrying out care plans
* Medicines reconciliation and optimisation
* Review for need of drug therapies, selection of appropriate drug therapies / doses / modification of existing therapies.
* Advice to doctors / other health care staff
* Discharge planning
* Counselling patients
* Attending ward rounds as per departmental requirements, which may involve flexibility of start / finish time.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
This job description is an indication of the type and range of tasks that are expected of the postholder, and other duties may be required, in line with the role and the banding. It will be reviewed and amended from time to time in consultation with the postholder to take account of changing organisational need.
Clinical Specialty
* To work closely with the senior pharmacists, clinicians, nursing staff and other senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to patients within the directorate.
* To ensure close relations cross-site with the pharmacy team across all sites.
* To attend ward rounds when appropriate and able.
* Provide a clinical pharmacy service to specialised areas and a clinical pharmacy service to cover other areas when ward cover is needed. The service includes:
* Assessing pharmaceutical care needs
* Initiating and carrying out care plans
* Medicines reconciliation and optimisation
* Review for need of drug therapies, selection of appropriate drug therapies / doses / modification of existing therapies.
* Advice to doctors / other health care staff
* Discharge planning
* Counselling patients
* Attending ward rounds as per departmental requirements, which may involve flexibility of start / finish time.
Education and Training
* To act as a role model in professional behaviour to junior pharmacists, technicians, pre-registration pharmacists, pre-registration technicians and pharmacy assistants.
* To train junior pharmacists, technicians, pre-registration pharmacists, pre-registration technicians and pharmacy assistants in the general aspects of Clinical Pharmacy.
* To train junior pharmacists, technicians, pre-registration pharmacists, pre-registration technicians and pharmacy assistants on the specialist area pertinent to their role.
* To act as a DPP for junior prescribing pharmacists when appropriate.
* To supervise junior pharmacists, technicians, pre-registration pharmacists, pre-registration technicians and pharmacy assistants.
* To lecture to medical, pharmacy, nursing and other healthcare professionals as required.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Pharmacy degree Masters Level 4 years
* Registered with GPhC
* Postgraduate clinical diploma or equivalent
* Registered as an Independent Prescriber
Desirable criteria
* UKCPA Membership
* RPS Membership
Specific Competencies
Essential criteria
* Excellent written and verbal communication
* Good interpersonal skills and negotiating skills
Desirable criteria
* Evidence of interest in research
Specialist
Essential criteria
* Experience of producing guidelines
* Experience of producing drug appraisals
Desirable criteria
* Clinical audit experience
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
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