Senior Pharmacist Medicines Information/ Clinical services

Job description

Job responsibilities

Medicines Information

Provide evaluated medicines information and advice from a variety of sources including clinical trials and published literature to pharmacy, medical and nursing staff, allied healthcare professionals and members of the public (via the medicines helpline) at all levels to promote the safe, effective, evidence-based and economic use of medicines thus optimising individual patient therapy.

Assist in the production of proactive medicines information aimed at improving prescribing and practice, and therefore patient care both in and outside the pharmacy, through personal communication, memos and bulletins.

In conjunction with the Lead pharmacists, Medicines Information, ensure that all standard operating procedures relating to the provision of medicines information are in place and current and all resources are up to date.

Support the training and development of junior medicines information staff and Lead Technician, Medicines Information and be actively involved in checking and reviewing their enquiries where necessary.

Contribute to a peer review system and assist with the audit of enquiries in accordance with clinical governance requirements.

To support and if necessary represent the Lead pharmacists, Medicines Information in all aspects pertaining to the management of the pharmacy departments Medicines Information service.

As part of the Medicines Information team, ensure that drug recalls and alerts received into the Trust are dealt with in a timely manner.

Maintain contact with appropriate specialists and groups both nationally and locally to enable best practice to be identified and incorporated into NUH practice.

To support the provision and update of monographs for the NHS Injectable Medicines guide.

Core Clinical duties (3.75-18.75 hours per week)

To ensure safe rational and effective prescribing by undertaking medication reconciliation, assessing suitability of prescribed medication, enabling use of patients own medicines and patient self-administration, counselling (to optimise medicines use), and ensuring continuity of patient care into the community.

Providing medicines for individual patients during their stay in hospital, at discharge and also for out-patient visits.

Interpreting and requesting clinical tests to monitor and make recommendations to improve effectiveness of drug therapy.

Pro-actively liaising with other members of the multidisciplinary team (medical staff, nurses, microbiologists, physiotherapists, dieticians) in order to ensure safe use of medicines.

Making recommendations about medicines to improve patient outcomes and to encourage adherence to hospital formulary and national guidelines.

Person Specification

Training and qualifications

Essential

• Diploma/MSc in clinical pharmacy or other appropriate qualification

Experience

Essential

• Wide previous experience (post registration) in hospital pharmacy
• Knowledge of medicines information resources and systems

Communication skills

Essential

• Good interpersonal, negotiating and presentation skills, both written and verbal
• Good communication skills with multidisciplinary team members and own profession

Analytical and judgement skills

Essential

• Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, drug therapy decisions and patient information
• Able to analyse patient specific data to advise on therapy management

Organisational skills

Essential

• Organised, able to prioritise own work and assist others to prioritise.

Physical skills

Essential

• Competent ICT skills, word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, databases, retrieval of information from the internet

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

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

Queen's Medical Centre, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust

Derby Road

Nottingham

NG7 2UH

Employer's website

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