Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Community Services
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Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Community Services
Would you like to work with patients in their own homes to manage their medicines following discharge from hospital. The Pharmacy Connecting Care team review patients, conduct clinical medicine reviews and carry out interventions where appropriate to improve pharmaceutical care. They will provide medication education, assess adherence and follow up patients as appropriate to monitor outcomes. An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic pharmacist to join the Connecting Care Pharmacy team within Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust. The team work alongside multi-professional colleagues to improve the care of patients through promoting evidence based and patient-centered care. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to enable patients to manage their own medicines safely. You will be part of our progressive pharmacy team and contribute to the implementation of the Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy Services strategy, striving for excellence to provide the highest standards of care for our patients. In addition to excellent communication and clinical skills you will have previous experience of working within a clinical environment. You will have completed a post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy, be near to completion, or have the equivalent relevant clinical experience and skills to support your work as a specialist clinical pharmacist. Evidence of multi-disciplinary teamwork would be advantageous. You must be registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council. You will also be encouraged to undertake the Non-Medical Prescribing course if you have not already done so.
Main duties
- The Specialist Pharmacist will work closely with the Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to support the delivery of Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy services to Community Services
- This includes:
- Contributing to the development and maintenance of policies and guidelines.
- Liaising with all grades of medical and nursing staff over relevant aspects of the pharmacy service. Helping to implement necessary service changes as a consequence of these consultations.
- Identifying, reporting on and responding to risk management issues or clinical incidents, referring to peers as necessary.
- Generating and reviewing reports in order to assist Advanced Clinical Pharmacists to inform the Trust about medication usage and expenditure and/or safety issues related to medicines.
- Participating in audits to demonstrate the effectiveness or identify development needs of all systems relating to the use of medicines.
- Deliver, in collaboration with staff in the Medicines Information department, support for Formulary & Drug Usage Audit initiatives.
- Clinical service commitment will consist of community services. Visiting patients in their own homes, or care homes to conduct clinical medication reviews and improve adherence.
- Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to review the full requirements.
Essential person specification requirements
Essential requirements for the role include:
- Masters Degree in pharmacy obtained through undergraduate training.
- Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council and experience in pharmacy practice obtained through one year pre-registration training and examination.
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Good Clinical Knowledge
- A broad experience of clinical working in a number of specialty areas at a developed level.
- Must be equally at ease talking to patients, medical and nursing staff of all grades in both primary and secondary care and will need to present written and verbal reports to senior hospital staff.
- Must have standard keyboard skills and a familiarity with routine office software – word processing, spread sheeting and PowerPoint.
- Exhibits an enthusiasm for development of the practice of Pharmacy
- Able to work as an individual and within a team.
- Responds positively to service deadlines and possess personal organisational attributes.
- Able to plan and manage own workload.
- The post holder must display an understanding of and ability to deal with the confidential and sensitive information with which they will come into contact on a daily basis.
- The post holder will need the necessary skills to be able to communicate complicated medication issues to patients and carers in order that they may understand and make best use of their medicines.
- The post holder must display an understanding and ability to communicate and deal with all patients and/or carers some of whom may have language, sensory or learning difficulties, or who may be dying or distressed because of their diagnosis or state of health.
- Must be physically able to visit wards and departments across the Trust as required by the activities of the job.
- Willing and able to travel throughout the Wakefield District area to cover community services roles.