Are you a specialist pharmacist who wants to develop their skills indiagnostics and clinical decision making? Or maybe you wish to become a moreautonomous clinician within Acute & Emergency medicine? If so, we are lookingto expand our team and would love to hear from you.This role will provide you with the skills in order to develop into anAdvanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP). Through undertaking a funded MSc inAdvanced Clinical Practice, you will utilise both higher education learningalongside supported ward based teaching, delivered by experiencedprofessionals. As a trainee ACP you have the perfect opportunity to build awork-based portfolio and continue to extend your existing skills and achieverelevant competencies.Once successfully qualified as a Pharmacist-ACP, you will provide a hybridservice to Acute and Emergency Medicine areas of the hospital namely, A& E,Acute Medical Unit, Medical Short Stay unit and within our Medical Same DayEmergency Care clinics.We have a friendly, experienced and clinically sophisticated team consistingof pharmacists, ACPs and consultant physicians to offer all the support youmay need. We have successfully developed a number of pharmacist ACPs over thelast few years and have an established training pathway in conjunction with avariety of higher education institutions.Previous applicants need not apply.**Main duties of the job**During your training years, you will embed yourself as the specialistpharmacist, identifying medicine-related and other issues forattendanceadmission within the urgent care foot print. You will also beundertaking your MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice which will give you theopportunity to develop yourself in the four pillars: clinical practice,leadership, education and research. You will be supported to develop all ofyour new-found learning in a supernumerary manner, where you are able tosafely practice with the oversight of experienced clinicians.As a qualified pharmacist-ACP, your working week is shared between your roleof a pharmacist and ACP. The role of the ACP incorporates all of yourspecialist pharmacist knowledge, with the additional learning of diagnostics,examination and complex clinical decision making, that the MSc ACP courseoffers.Once qualified as a pharmacist-ACP you will be independently reviewingpatients with undifferentiated diagnoses who have presented to hospital. Thisincludes history-taking, examining patients, requesting & interpretinginvestigations (blood tests, radiological imaging etc.) and implementingmanagement plans.Whilst undertaking this role, you will be supported by medical teams on a dayto day basis, consisting of a variety of healthcare professionals with ashared goal of improving patient care and healthcare outcomes for ourpopulation.**About us**Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptionalcolleagues who can help us achieve this.Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialisedhospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residentsof Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population inHerefordshire and beyond.The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster,Redditch and WorcesterOur workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised asproviding good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve ourVision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for ourcommunities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4wardbehaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday workand remain firmly at the heart of all we do.Our objectives are simple:
* **Best services for local people**
* **Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients**
* **Best use of resources**
* **Best people**
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear futurevision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the widerhealth and care system.**We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we arecommitted to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flexpositive employer.**
* *Job description**
* *Job responsibilities**
Work independently once qualified or within the MDT, being responsible fordelivering Advanced Clinical Practitioner & Specialist Clinical Pharmacistroles to the Emergency Department and Acute Medical Directorate at WRH. Thiswill include assessing patients, identifying medicine-related causes forattendance & admission and developing treatment plans to optimise careFunction as an Independent Prescriber or de-prescriber as needed, complyingwith all requirements of the GPhC in relation to registration as anindependent prescriber and the associated professional responsibilities.Make critical decisions around the care needs of patients and communicatethese to patients and other staff members accordingly.Provide a specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service topatients and undertake pharmaceutical risk management to allocated wardswithin the Acute Medical Directorate and the Emergency Department, WRH.Use his or her specialised knowledge of medicines to advise consultants,medical, nursing and pharmacy staff on all pharmaceutical aspects of medicinesfor Acute Medical patients.Deliver pharmaceutical care to patients in the Acute Medical Directorate andEmergency Department recommend, substantiate and communicate best therapeuticoptions for patients and implement changes in prescribing practice to ensureevidence-based medicine is followed as appropriate.Undertake risk management for the pharmacy service to the Emergency Departmentand the Acute Medical Directorate and ensure compliance with medicineslegislation, the Trust Medicines Policy, and medicines related national andlocal guidelines.Undertake clinical audit of medicine use and pharmacy services within theAcute Medical Directorate and Emergency Department WRH.Ensure pharmaceutical aspects of research and clinical trials in acutemedicine comply with relevant legislation and conduct own practice-basedauditresearch on pharmaceutical aspects of acute medicine.Contribute to keeping the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Departmentsdrug expenditure within agreed budgets.See full job description for further information.**Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment:**As part of the Trusts aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positiveaction is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabledand LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded GuaranteedInterview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the personspecification for this role.Applicants will be prompted in the application form to declare if they wish tobe considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, and theirresponse would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.If you have any queries about expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, pleasecontact Rob Saunders (HR Manager - Recruitment) in confidence via emailrobert.saunders1@nhs.net
* *Person Specification**
* *Qualifications**
* *Essential**
* Professional knowledge acquired through a vocational degree in pharmacy.
* Currently Registered as a pharmacist in UK: Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
* Clinical specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate level training e.g. Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, RPS advanced level framework or specialist clinical modules relevant to the role.
* Currently meeting the GPhC standard for continuing professional development.
* *Desirable**
* Accredited independent prescriber.
* Have undertaken a Health Assessment course.
* Working towards RPS Faculty membership.
* Holds or working towards formal teaching training on providing feedback.
* Holds or working towards a leadership or management qualification e.g. Mary Seacole programme.
* *Experience**
* *Essential**
* Current experience in delivering specialist clinical services to the relevant speciality or directorate.
* Experience in influencing and persuading senior clinicians in relation to optimal medicine treatment for patients.
* Experienceinvolvement in implementation of service improvements.
* Experience of preparing and delivering reports, audits, clinical guidelines.
* Experience in reviewing medication errors to analyse for trends or complete root cause analysis.
* Experience of successfully supervising and contributing to the training of Pharmacists and Pharmacy technicians.
* Experience in providing an on-call or resident Pharmacy service.
* *Desirable**
* Practising Prescriber.
* Experience in training doctors and nurses.
* Experience of leading a team.
* Experience of providing specialist clinical pharmacy service to Acute or Emergency Medicine.
* *Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment**
* *Essential**
* As part of the Trusts aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Here you can declare if you wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme and this response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.
* *Employer details**
* *Employer name**
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust**Address**Charles Hastings WayWorcesterWorcestershire
WR5 1DD
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