Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Virtual Wards
Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHSFT
The Senior Clinical Pharmacist plays a crucial role within our virtual wards, with a clinical focus on frailty, respiratory and general medicine, working collaboratively with acute providers across Cheshire and Merseyside ICB. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic and evolving environment, providing pharmaceutical expertise to support the delivery of safe and effective patient care.
We are looking for a Senior Clinical Pharmacist to join our newly established Virtual Ward Pharmacy Team, working alongside the Principal Clinical Pharmacist to design, enhance and deliver high quality pharmacy services to patients receiving care on virtual wards. Each role works alongside the pharmacy and clinical teams at the acute trust(s) which deliver the virtual ward service they are allocated to. The role is on a fixed term basis for 6 months.
Join our team and make a difference in the lives of patients across Cheshire and Merseyside!
Main duties of the job
The main duties of the role include:
1. Provide specialist clinical pharmacy services to the virtual wards, ensuring the safe and appropriate use of medicines.
2. Collaborate with the multidisciplinary team to optimize medicines management, including medicines reconciliation, prescribing, and monitoring.
3. Conduct comprehensive medication reviews and provide evidence-based recommendations to improve patient outcomes.
4. Support the development and implementation of clinical guidelines, protocols and policies related to pharmacy and medicines management for virtual wards.
5. Provide education and training to healthcare professionals, patients and carers on medicines-related topics.
6. Contribute to audit, research, and service improvement projects to enhance pharmaceutical care for patients on virtual wards.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Master's degree in pharmacy or equivalent.
* Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
* Specialist knowledge acquired through a post graduate diploma course in Clinical Pharmacy or similar or alternatively acquired through relevant and equivalent experience.
* Registered independent prescriber with the GPhC.
Experience
* Broad specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge.
* Developing and undertaking clinical and non-clinical audits.
* Familiarity with the concepts of evidence-based medicines.
* Involved in identifying and assessing risk to improve patient safety.
* Ability to demonstrate evidence of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
* Experience of providing clinical pharmacy services.
Skills, Knowledge and Competencies
* Excellent organisational skills.
* Effective influencing and negotiation skills and ability to persuade others.
* Ability to communicate effectively with a range of healthcare staff including prescribers, social care staff and patients.
* Self-motivated and able to initiate change.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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