Specialist Pharmacist Older Persons Emergency Medicine

Job responsibilities

Play an integral role in the planning, development and delivery of the pharmacy service to frailty and OPM.

Play an integral role in the planning, development and delivery of the Trusts restructuring of patient pathways within frailty and elderly care. This will involve working with members of the MDT in order to provide excellent clinical care as well as developing the Trusts ability to meet the demands of an ageing population.

Work with key stakeholders to ensure the delivery of novel integrated services for frail patients across traditional care boundaries.

Provide expert clinical knowledge and advice on frailty medicine to enable the pharmacy department to continue to develop its links with local primary care networks (PCNs) and integrated neighbourhood teams (INTs). Develop opportunities to integrate roles across the secondary care and primary care boundary.

To integrate de-prescribing on frailty and elderly care wards which enables pharmacists and medical teams to de-prescribe in a structured and evidenced based manner therefore addressing the issue of polypharmacy.

Manage, tutor and mentor junior pharmacists and participate in education and development as required.

Practice as a non-medical prescriber withinOSDEC and the Medical Village (AMU wards).

To carry out general dispensing and associated clinical and pharmaceutical duties and to assist with the provision of the general pharmacy service.

To provide expert advice on pharmaceutical matters when carrying out clinical pharmacy services to wards.

To participate as required in weekend, Bank Holiday, on call and late night rotas.

Experience

Essential

• Relevant hospital pharmacy experience involving clinical pharmacy services
• Experience of dispensary working

Desirable

• Previous experience of Frailty and/or OPM pharmacy services
• Bank Holiday and weekend working experience
• Working as a specialist pharmacist in an MDT
• Working in a busy hospital ward environment
• Implementing change

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters or Bachelors Degree in Pharmacy
• Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Certificate in Clinical Pharmacy
• Completed or studying for Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy
• NMP qualification or working towards

Desirable

• Member of Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• Member of specialist pharmacist practice group e.g. UKCPA

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Good interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Demonstrable ability to prioritise, organise and manage workload in an environment that has frequent disruptions
• Demonstrable ability to motivate self and others
• Demonstrable ability to work in a team
• Demonstrable confidence as a clinical pharmacist
• Demonstrable ability to use initiative
• Demonstrable ability to maintain quality standards
• Sound knowledge of frailty medical therapeutics
• Experience of writing clinical guidelines
• Experience of leading a team

Desirable

• Word and data processing
• Clinical appraisal skills
• Experience of writing shared care protocols and Patient Group Directions
• Experience of providing education to multi-disciplinary teams
• Experience of leading service development

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).