Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and proactive prescribing pharmacist to join our team, delivering and leading innovative pharmacy services to the community.
As a leader in this organisation, no two days will be the same; you will have patient contact; you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team; you will problem solve and you will have the opportunity to shape the pharmacy service you lead and deliver.
Prospective candidates should be efficient, enthusiastic and confident to work autonomously within a supportive team and their sphere of competence. They should have excellent communication skills as the job will involve liaising with social care, clinical and community teams as well as patients and their carers.
You will have a desire to improve patient outcomes; an aspiration to participate in research, the will to learn and develop and the opportunity to influence the future of pharmacy services.
You will have an MPharm degree or equivalent, independent non-medical prescribing qualification and be registered with the GPHC.
You will need to be flexible in your approach to work and able to travel as the role involves hybrid working.
Part time hours will be considered for suitable candidates.
Consideration would be given for an experienced band 8a development role for those looking to step up to an 8b with time and support.
Main duties of the job
You will be working and leading as part of a multidisciplinary team supporting our Community Hospital ward (Minsmere) and our Four Primary Care Home teams deliver patient centred care primarily. You will have the opportunity to provide clinical input into our bedded rehabilitation and specialist palliative care unit.
To provide and oversee a Clinical Pharmacy Service to the four ECCH Primary Care Home Teams and beds with care focusing on delivering safe, evidence-based, cost effective, high-quality pharmaceutical aspects of the Primary Care Home Team Service.
To support the provision of Clinical Pharmacy services to the Community Hospital ward and specialist palliative care beds.
To explore service development/expansion in conjunction with the Head of Pharmacy where opportunity arises.
To ensure that there is compliance with medicines legislation; national and local guidance and to manage risks associated with medicines use.
To ensure appropriate governance is in place regarding medicines, including leading on the response to any drug safety alerts or changes in clinical guidance and escalate as appropriate.
To provide professional expertise, advice, support and training on medicines management policies and medicines optimisation to health professionals and directly manage the PCH clinical pharmacy technicians.
To organise and participate in regular training and feedback sessions as appropriate.
Deputise where appropriate for the Head of Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation
About us
ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.
We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.
At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.
We encourage you to apply as early as possible as this job may close earlier than the advertised closing date once enough applications have been received.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide and receive complex patient information and
agree therapeutic outcomes with clinicians including prescribing and requesting
investigations where appropriate.
To provide a high-quality Clinical
Pharmacy Service including individual patient medicines review, counselling,
medicines reconciliation and full clinical screening of prescriptions to ensure
safe and cost-effective use of evidence based and rational use of medicines, in
line with local policies and national guidance ensuring medicines are optimised
and risks to patients are minimised.
To provide drug or medicine related information,
including legalities, to multiple clinicians, patients, relatives, and carers.
To review all medication incidents and co-produce
mitigations (e.g., training; policies; SOPs) and share learning across the
organisation.
To participate in and undertake
audits as agreed including collecting and recording data for KPIs and CQUINs.
To assist in reviewing and developing medicines
related policies, SOPs and guidelines.
To be responsible for the
delivery of high quality, comprehensive, safe and effective pharmaceutical
services to patients, clinicians and staff.
To support the Head of Pharmacy in managing and professionally
leading the Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Teams in the organisation.
To facilitate and support the organisation in achieving compliance
with the Care Quality Commission Standards and NHS Resolution standards in
relation to medicines handling within the organisation.
To act as Medication Safety Officer.
To support the whole organisation with medicines related advice.
Be willing and able to travel to various sites within the
organisation to ensure delivery of the pharmacy service
To support the training, education
and development of pharmacy staff and other clinicians as appropriate,
including those undertaking educational training programmes.
All roles
within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our
Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to
patients, service users, stakeholders, and colleagues. All members of staff
should consider these as an essential part of their job role.
Our Values outline the core behaviours that we
can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word CARE. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.
Underpinning our Values are our Signature
Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a
strong culture. Our four Signature
Behaviours are: Compassion
- We Listen, We Learn,
We Lead| Action - My
Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect
Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To provide and receive complex patient information and
agree therapeutic outcomes with clinicians including prescribing and requesting
investigations where appropriate.
To provide a high-quality Clinical
Pharmacy Service including individual patient medicines review, counselling,
medicines reconciliation and full clinical screening of prescriptions to ensure
safe and cost-effective use of evidence based and rational use of medicines, in
line with local policies and national guidance ensuring medicines are optimised
and risks to patients are minimised.
To provide drug or medicine related information,
including legalities, to multiple clinicians, patients, relatives, and carers.
To review all medication incidents and co-produce
mitigations (e.g., training; policies; SOPs) and share learning across the
organisation.
To participate in and undertake
audits as agreed including collecting and recording data for KPIs and CQUINs.
To assist in reviewing and developing medicines
related policies, SOPs and guidelines.
To be responsible for the
delivery of high quality, comprehensive, safe and effective pharmaceutical
services to patients, clinicians and staff.
To support the Head of Pharmacy in managing and professionally
leading the Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Teams in the organisation.
To facilitate and support the organisation in achieving compliance
with the Care Quality Commission Standards and NHS Resolution standards in
relation to medicines handling within the organisation.
To act as Medication Safety Officer.
To support the whole organisation with medicines related advice.
Be willing and able to travel to various sites within the
organisation to ensure delivery of the pharmacy service
To support the training, education
and development of pharmacy staff and other clinicians as appropriate,
including those undertaking educational training programmes.
All roles
within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our
Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to
patients, service users, stakeholders, and colleagues. All members of staff
should consider these as an essential part of their job role.
Our Values outline the core behaviours that we
can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word CARE. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.
Underpinning our Values are our Signature
Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a
strong culture. Our four Signature
Behaviours are: Compassion
- We Listen, We Learn,
We Lead| Action - My
Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect
Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- To communicate sensitive and highly complex specialist medicines related information and advice to patients & carers, consultants and their medical teams, and other healthcare professionals. Types of sensitive and specialist medicines and pharmaceutical information include: choice of therapy (including formulary issues), choice of formulation and route of administration, side effects, adverse drug reactions, use of drugs where its action and effects may be influenced by patient disease state, biochemical parameters, liver and kidney function, diet, gender, ethnicity, pregnancy, breast feeding, age related problems. This could be in sensitive situations including cancer treatment, terminal illness and the effect of drug administration or prescribing errors or other drug misadventures. Discussions may be on a one-to-one basis with patient, doctor or other healthcare professional, or by telephone, e-mail or letter; or a one to many e.g., on medical ward rounds.
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent
- Postgraduate clinical qualification and/or significant relevant clinical experience to demonstrate similar level of knowledge
- Independent non-medical prescribing qualification
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
- Management or Leadership qualification
- Project management experience
- Coaching and mentoring experience/qualification
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Flexible and enthusiastic
- Self-motivated
- Ability to lead and motivate others
- Methodical
- Tactful and empathetic
- Emotionally resilient
- Able to deal with conflict e.g. negotiate with individuals who may be aggressive, emotional, disagree or challenge decisions
- Able to continually update knowledge, skills and challenge own practice
- Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours
- (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
- Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.
Desirable
- Enthusiasm for developing others
Experience
Essential
- Significant recent post-registration experience in acute hospital and community health services
- To analyse, interpret and evaluate specialist medicines related information or data, using clinical and professional judgement. This includes interpreting reports from any pharmacy computer system e.g. about drug usage and expenditure, clinical intervention reports, data from clinical trials and published papers, and changes in medicines legislation and policy (local and national). This information could inform decisions about an individual patients drug treatment (e.g., data from the pathology system) or protocol & guideline development
- To interpret prescriptions for drug problems such as drug dosage, drug interactions and appropriateness of therapy. Considers legality, clarity and risk associated with prescribed medicines and prescriptions and makes interventions to ensure safety and optimal therapy
- Experience in planning, developing and delivering pharmacy services
- Experience of being responsible and accountable for own professional actions, working independently within professional and organisational boundaries and being responsible for the actions of others within their area of responsibility
Desirable
- Experience in working with end-of-life patients gained through working in hospice or specialist centre
- To possess the technical knowledge and skills to make or instruct others, in the preparation of injections and intravenous infusions
- Teaching and training experience to a range of healthcare professionals; students and undergraduates
- Experience of working in a range of environments e.g., community; hospital; primary care
- Experience in managing departmental budgets
- Experience service re-design
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- To communicate sensitive and highly complex specialist medicines related information and advice to patients & carers, consultants and their medical teams, and other healthcare professionals. Types of sensitive and specialist medicines and pharmaceutical information include: choice of therapy (including formulary issues), choice of formulation and route of administration, side effects, adverse drug reactions, use of drugs where its action and effects may be influenced by patient disease state, biochemical parameters, liver and kidney function, diet, gender, ethnicity, pregnancy, breast feeding, age related problems. This could be in sensitive situations including cancer treatment, terminal illness and the effect of drug administration or prescribing errors or other drug misadventures. Discussions may be on a one-to-one basis with patient, doctor or other healthcare professional, or by telephone, e-mail or letter; or a one to many e.g., on medical ward rounds.
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent
- Postgraduate clinical qualification and/or significant relevant clinical experience to demonstrate similar level of knowledge
- Independent non-medical prescribing qualification
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
- Management or Leadership qualification
- Project management experience
- Coaching and mentoring experience/qualification
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Flexible and enthusiastic
- Self-motivated
- Ability to lead and motivate others
- Methodical
- Tactful and empathetic
- Emotionally resilient
- Able to deal with conflict e.g. negotiate with individuals who may be aggressive, emotional, disagree or challenge decisions
- Able to continually update knowledge, skills and challenge own practice
- Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours
- (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
- Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.
Desirable
- Enthusiasm for developing others
Experience
Essential
- Significant recent post-registration experience in acute hospital and community health services
- To analyse, interpret and evaluate specialist medicines related information or data, using clinical and professional judgement. This includes interpreting reports from any pharmacy computer system e.g. about drug usage and expenditure, clinical intervention reports, data from clinical trials and published papers, and changes in medicines legislation and policy (local and national). This information could inform decisions about an individual patients drug treatment (e.g., data from the pathology system) or protocol & guideline development
- To interpret prescriptions for drug problems such as drug dosage, drug interactions and appropriateness of therapy. Considers legality, clarity and risk associated with prescribed medicines and prescriptions and makes interventions to ensure safety and optimal therapy
- Experience in planning, developing and delivering pharmacy services
- Experience of being responsible and accountable for own professional actions, working independently within professional and organisational boundaries and being responsible for the actions of others within their area of responsibility
Desirable
- Experience in working with end-of-life patients gained through working in hospice or specialist centre
- To possess the technical knowledge and skills to make or instruct others, in the preparation of injections and intravenous infusions
- Teaching and training experience to a range of healthcare professionals; students and undergraduates
- Experience of working in a range of environments e.g., community; hospital; primary care
- Experience in managing departmental budgets
- Experience service re-design
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
East Coast Community Healthcare CIC
Address
Beccles Hospital
St. Marys Road
Battery Green Road
Beccles
Suffolk
NR34 9NQ
Employer's website
https://www.ecch.org/ (Opens in a new tab)
