Expected Shortlisting Date: 08/11/2024
Planned Interview Date: 15/11/2024
We have a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic, dynamic and experienced Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to join our Innovative Cardirenalmetabolic medicines optimisation team at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. This new and exciting post supports various educational and research activities relating to Lipid Optimisation projects. Our unit has recently secured additional funding to support lipid optimisation across West Yorkshire ICB. This project is delivered with the support of experienced lipid experts at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. You will have the opportunity to develop your lipid optimisation expertise, educational and research skills among well established, award winning, multidisciplinary clinicians and researchers.
Main duties of the job
The role involves supporting the delivery of lipid optimisation agenda at LTHT and across WYICB. You will be involved in reviewing lipid optimisation queries, liaising with clinicians in various PCNs, organising MDT meetings, identifying lipids learning needs, developing and organising educational materials, writing up findings and reporting recommendations. You will work closely with a well established team of lipid experts. There will be opportunities to collect data and publish findings to evaluate and disseminate good practice. This position will ensure that participating PCNs receive clinically accurate advice which aligns with NHS best practices, and meet the learning needs of healthcare professionals across the region.
In this role you will be expected to engage with healthcare professionals across WYICB to promote the lipid optimisation service provided by LTHT, gather feedback on educational needs. You will collaborate with other stakeholders to develop non-promotional educational content.
The post holder will have the opportunity to support other Cardiorenalmetabolic projects within the unit.
About us
Come and join our team in Leeds and become part of The Leeds Way sharing our vision and values. Our Trust is recognised for our staff engagement, great care and rated GOOD by the Care Quality Commission.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest acute health providers in the UK and based in one of the fastest growing and vibrant cities in the north.
At Cardio-Respiratory CSU, we aim to be a fair and supportive CSU with positive, caring teams who are champions of the Leeds Way values. Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:
* Patient-centred
* Collaborative
* Fair
* Accountable
* Empowered
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Job description
Job responsibilities
Principal Duties & Areas of Responsibility
Clinical
* Provide a highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within a given clinical speciality.
* Support the Trust's Prescribing Standards and challenge practice where prescribers have not adhered to the Medicines Code.
* Demonstrate the ability to provide safe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation. This will include individual prescription review to optimise therapy, advising on dosage and side effects and on safe administration of medicines.
* Plan, manage, monitor and review individual patient care plans.
* Participate in consultant ward rounds and multi-disciplinary team meetings.
* Manage difficult and ambiguous problems, often when information is limited.
* Undertake risk management, including investigating clinical incidents in the clinical area and ensuring compliance with medicine legislation.
* Manage the introduction of new drugs, including unlicensed drugs, into the clinical speciality.
* Manage the clinical pharmacist input into clinical trials.
* Develop and update policies for the safe, effective and economic use of medicines through discussion with medical and nursing staff.
* Lead on specific aspects of the Medicines Safety agenda and provide expert opinion, both within and outside cardiology within the Trust to ensure the safe and effective delivery of drug therapy.
* Assist the Lead Pharmacist - Innovative CaReMe Medicines Optimisation Services in developing and delivering medicines-risk related education and training to healthcare professionals.
Management
* Monitor and interpret expenditure on medicines within own clinical speciality.
* Attend the monthly Clinical Speciality Management meetings to advise on medicine use and financial implications.
* Write or respond to business cases for service development to secure additional funding.
* Responsible for day to day supervision / management of specialist clinical pharmacists in clinical speciality (some staff).
Research and Education
* Participate in research and development within clinical speciality.
* Supervise, teach, and assess staff completing training modules within the clinical area.
* Develop the role of a specialist pharmacist through national links.
Other
* Perform other duties as directed by manager.
* Liaise with West Yorkshire ICB and Health Innovation around collaborative projects.
Person Specification
Skills & behaviours
Essential
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
* Strong organisational and project management abilities.
* Be highly adaptive to changing circumstances and situations.
Desirable
* Familiarity with e-learning platforms and digital education tools.
Experience
Essential
* Prior experience in delivering lipid optimisation clinical activity.
* Clinical pharmacy knowledge in lipid optimisation.
* Ability to demonstrate foundation level competencies in all 6 domains of the Advanced to Consultant Level Framework (ACLF).
* Substantial post registration experience as a practising clinical pharmacist.
* Prior experience in developing educational materials / programmes.
Desirable
* Primary care IT clinical systems and priorities.
* Working across different specialties and healthcare systems.
* Proven experience in medical education or clinical training roles.
* Prior experience in co-ordination and delivery of educational events, including webinars, workshops, and podcasts.
Qualifications
Essential
* Masters Qualification in Pharmacy (or equivalent).
* Registrant of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent.
* Non-medical prescriber.
Desirable
* Lipid optimisation training.
Employer details
Employer name: Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Address: St. James's University Hospital, Beckett Street, Leeds, LS9 7TF
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