Specialist Orthopaedic Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Working in specialist areas:

1. To work closely with the Senior Pharmacists, clinicians, nursing staff and other senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to patients within the relevant directorates.2. Provide a clinical pharmacy service to specialised areas and a clinical pharmacy service to cover other areas when ward cover is needed. The service includes:

• Assessing pharmaceutical care needs
• Initiating and carrying out care plans
• Medicines reconciliation and optimisation
• Review for need of drug therapies, selection of appropriate drug therapies / doses / modification of existing therapies
• Advice to doctors / other health care staff
• Discharge planning
• Counselling patients
• Attending ward rounds/ MDT meetings as per departmental requirements e.g. post-take which may involve flexibility of start / finish time
• To manage the satellite pharmacy during the weekend

The service is according to departmental procedures and meets the minimum standards agreed with the Clinical Pharmacy Manager. The service provided will take current legislation into account.

3. To work with clinicians and nurses to develop, implement and monitor the use of protocols within the specialist area to ensure the safe use and supply of medicines. This includes the development of protocols and advice to nursing staff concerning the safe and appropriate use and storage of medication.

4. To be willing to undertake training to act as an independent non-medical prescriber (NMP) within this specialist area as appropriate.

5. When qualified as a NMP to actively prescribe within the agreed area of competence, including medicines reconciliation on admission and prescribing of currently prescribed medicines on discharge. This will include prescribing for MCAs (Multi-compartment aids) on FP10s for supply by Community Pharmacists.

6. To take an active role in committees relating to specialist area e.g. clinical governance committee.

7. To evaluate, plan and implement service developments to improve the quality of the pharmacy service to the directorate.

8. To ensure that drugs utilised within the directorate reflect the recommendations, the policies and formulary of Frimley Health and those of tertiary centres. To increase economic awareness within the area through directorate financial reports and to advise on cost effective prescribing.

9. To participate in the development and implementation of shared-care agreements with primary care.

10. To work closely with the FPH & WPH counterparts to harmonise service delivery.

11. To produce drug evaluations for the D&T committee as requested by the Prescribing Manager. To make recommendations to the directorate concerning the introduction and use of new drugs.

12. To support the Lead Pharmacists in the recruitment and management of pharmacists or ward technicians under the post holder, including appraisal, review and development.

13. To participate in pharmacy practice research and clinical audit activities.

Staff Training & Development1. To deliver education and training to doctors and nurses and other staff as necessary. This will include doctors, nurses, medical students and PAMs. This training may be ward based, tutorials or through presentations.

2. Contribute to the departmental Continual Professional Development (CPD) program and to undertake CPD as required by the GPhC.

3. To participate in the clinical training of junior pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacists and other pharmacy staff acting as an Educational Supervisor or Practice Supervisor.

4. To participate in training and development activities as are considered appropriate by the Chief Pharmacist to keep up to date with advances in the service.

5. To cover specialist clinical areas thus enabling other pharmacists to train as Pharmacist Independent Prescribers and take on specialist roles

Other Duties1. To assist in the provision of outpatient and inpatient dispensary services as and when required. This includes clinical screening, labelling, dispensing, final accuracy checking of medication (including parenteral and oral chemotherapy and clinical trials) and patient medication counselling, as well as dealing with professional queries within the dispensary.

2. To assist in the provision of the Medicines Information service as and when required, ensuring advice given is accurate, prompt and relevant.

3. On-call commitment. If required, to provide an out of hours emergency pharmacy service and contracted units on a rotational basis. Responsibilities include:

• Ensuring the security of the pharmacy department out of hours.
• Provision of pharmaceutical advice to medical and nursing staff.
• Supply of urgently needed medication.
• Participation in the Trusts major incident scheme.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

• Pharmacy degree
• Registered with GPhC
• Post Graduate Clinical Diploma (or studying towards)

Desirable

• Independent Prescriber
• Member of RPS and/or UKCPA

Specific Competences

Essential

• Excellent written communication (from application form)

Professional Experience

Essential

• Significant post-qualification experience working as a pharmacist in a clinical environment.

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

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Heatherwood Park hospital

High Street

Ascot

SL5 8AA

Employer's website

https://www.fhft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)