You will be the lead clinical pharmacist within one of the Health and Well-being teams for one of the five localities in South Devon, ensuring the delivery of a high-quality clinical pharmacy service related to medicines optimisation across your locality. The role will include supporting intermediate care teams, long-term condition clinics, care homes, and inpatient beds located within community hospitals.
This is an exciting opportunity to provide maternity leave cover in a well-established and innovative medicines optimisation team, working in an intermediate care setting with strong links to both acute and primary care multidisciplinary teams.
You will provide expert information about medicines and medicines management to a range of audiences including service users, carers, and wider trust staff, ensuring services in your locality are patient-centred and delivered in a manner that meets the needs of patients and other stakeholders.
Developing and supporting services to meet changing operational or clinical needs, this role is a key link between primary and secondary care.
Main duties of the job
1. Be the medicines optimisation lead within one of the five localities.
2. Provide a clinical pharmacy service to the locality Health and Well-being team, including intermediate care.
3. Lead and deliver a specialist pharmacy service by providing in-depth, patient-focused clinical medication reviews to ensure safe and effective care.
4. Provide highly specialised pharmaceutical advice in complex situations to healthcare professionals, care home staff, patients, and carers, visiting patients in various settings.
5. Promote the safe, effective, high-quality, and cost-effective use of medicines.
6. Provide a clinical pharmacy service to community hospital beds within the locality, working closely with local General Practitioners and attending ward rounds for poly-pharmacy medicine reviews.
About us
The TSDFT clinical pharmacy team culture is team-based, patient-focused, innovative, and supportive. With strong links to the acute team, locality pharmacists are embedded within the community Intermediate Care Teams and provide vital support on all aspects of medication to patients and healthcare staff. The locality team provides a clinical pharmacy service to community hospitals at Dawlish, Totnes, Brixham, and Newton Abbot. All team members are expected to represent the pharmacy department and their profession in a visible, approachable, and competent manner, demonstrating flexibility, positivity, and problem-solving ability as appropriate to their role and competency.
Why Work With Us
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
2. Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent clinical pharmacy experience
3. Excellent negotiation skills and ability to influence senior clinicians
4. Demonstrable leadership skills and ability
5. Clinical pharmacy service provision
6. Ability to adapt to and learn from change
Please see the attached Job Description for further details of main responsibilities and person specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* Registration with GPhC
* Postgraduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent clinical pharmacy experience
* Proven evidence of Continuing Professional Development
Desirable
* Specialised training in clinical pharmacy
* Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
* Non-medical prescriber
Experience
Essential
* Proven ability to manage and make change
* Understanding of and respect for the roles and responsibilities of other healthcare professionals
* Demonstrable leadership skills and ability
* Team building skills
* Excellent negotiation skills and ability to influence senior clinicians
* Patient counselling skills
* Ability to work independently and organise own workload
Desirable
* Experience of developing a pharmacy service
* Well-developed critical appraisal skills
Knowledge
Essential
* Knowledge and understanding of medication-related issues in all sectors of healthcare
Desirable
* Good understanding of medicines optimisation issues and systems across the primary-secondary care interface
* Understanding of clinical governance issues relevant to clinical pharmacy
* Specialist clinical knowledge or experience in medicines optimisation relating to older patients and polypharmacy.
Skills
Essential
* Able to drive and have a valid UK licence
* Excellent team worker, including in multidisciplinary settings
* Clinical pharmacy service provision
Desirable
* Production of treatment guidelines and protocols
Employer details
Employer name
Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Pharmacy Department
Torbay Hospital
Torquay
TQ2 7AA
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