Advanced Clinical Pharmacist, POAC

Job responsibilities

Clinical Services

To proactively promote safe and evidence-based medicines related advice with all grades of doctors, prescribers, and nursing staff within POAC by communicating and providing highly complex information on medication and challenging poor practice.

To prescribe safely and in line with the formulary, policy, procedures or guidance.

To provide general and specialist pharmaceutical advice and support to POAC staff, to enhance the quality of patient care which will include all patient aged groups and of many morbidities.

To liaise closely with medical, pharmacy and nursing staff to lead, develop and implement complex therapeutic guidelines, standard operating procedures and medicines-related policies in POAC, so as to provide advice where information is lacking or medical opinions may differ.

To manage and participate in the delivery and development of the Clinical Pharmacy Service eg, proactive participation in ward rounds, input into medicines management review, acting as a clinical pharmacy role model being accountable for your own professional actions.

To develop standards of clinical pharmacy practice which align with national frameworks and performance management measures with Principal Pharmacists.

Maintain an up-to-date clinical expert knowledge in clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice to ensure a broad base of pharmaceutical knowledge and an advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement. To actively share this knowledge with the wider Pharmacy team

To optimise medicines management by reconciling drug histories, performing medication reviews and using patients own medicines.

To detect, record and report adverse drug reactions identified to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and via Datix as per Trust Policy.

To record your clinical activity and to monitor the outcome of your advice.

To fulfil the requirements of the Standards for Pharmacy Professionals.

To implement the Duty of Candour.

Medicines Management

To ensure that the principles of safe and secure handling of medicines andcontrolled stationery are adopted and to take part in the quality assurance systems for pharmaceutical services to comply with legislation and Quality Standards eg, Care Quality Commission.

To participate in preparing business cases for the Directorate when they involve medicines.

To demonstrate awareness and commitment to the Trusts Clinical Governance agenda.

To implement, manage and co-ordinate the introduction of ePMA within POAC and Surgery Division in liaison with the ePMA team, prescribers and nursing staff.

To participate in the analysis, identification and management of medication risks.

To lead on the development of guidelines for the use of specialist medicines in POACTo manage the introduction of new medicines by undertaking formularysubmissions, evaluating the clinical and financial impact in secondary and primary care and identifying risks associated with new medicines.

To ensure the provision of specialist information on the use of medicines for the on-call Pharmacists out-of-hours.

To liaise with the Surgical Pharmacists to manage the pharmaceutical aspects of the care of elective surgical patients

To ensure that clinical and non-clinical incidents are reported, recorded,investigated, analysed and appropriate action taken and/or proposed.

Financial

To be responsible for the co-ordinated advice to the directorate to effectively manage expenditure on medicines, including tariff medicines, excluded medicines, prior approvals, individual funding requests etc.

To horizon scan for new medicines and to advise on clinical and budgetary impact.

To produce appropriate reports documenting the use and expenditure of medicines to evaluate trends and variations in prescribing in order to develop and implement policies aimed at containing expenditure and realising savings.

To identify and manage medicine/pharmacy Quality/Innovation/Productivity/Prevention (QIPP) Schemes, including Cost Improvement Programme (CIP) Schemes within the directorate to ensure this is coordinated within the Pharmacy and Trust.

To be an authorised signatory for Pharmacy to commit expenditure via the Trusts Standing Financial Instructions and delegated ordering system.

To provide expert professional advice on medicines to clinicians, managers, finance and commissioners that may affect POAC or Surgical Directorates.

Education, Training, Staff Management and Supervision

To act as a role model, supervisor and mentor for Senior Clinical Pharmacists, Rotational Pharmacists, Trainee Pharmacists, Medicines Management Technicians and other members of Pharmacy staff.

To line manage and undertake appraisal for Clinical or Specialist Pharmacists and have responsibility for their on-going learning, development and appraisal.

To lead and develop the MMTs working in Surgical Division.

To be a tutor for the Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy Practice.

To identify training needs and undertake training or source any relevant training / qualification entry of the other members of the POAC and wider Pharmacy Team.

To provide education and training for medical, pharmacy, nurses and otherhealthcare professionals.

To provide information to patients, parents and carers on admission and discharge regarding their treatment and medication to optimise patient concordance.

To take responsibility for own personal CPD by participating in education and training programmes to improve competence and acquire new skills to benefit development of the service and develop membership for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society Faculty.

To represent NGH at regional and national meetings.

Audit and Research

To develop, undertake and initiate clinical audit and practice research, drug use reviews, new drug evaluations to improve the quality of the Pharmacy Services.

To guide and support others undertaking research audit and service improvements eg, Trainee/Diploma Pharmacists.

To record, monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of pharmaceutical interventions and contributions to Directorate.

To monitor internal clinical interventions, feedback and identify trends for learning.

To analyse and undertake root cause analysis of medication incidents in POAC

Education, Training and Qualifications

Essential

• Pharmacy Degree, MPharm or BPharm
• oIndependent prescribing or willing to work towards Independent Prescribing qualification.
• oRegistered with General Pharmaceutical Council.
• oDiploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent.
• oMandatory CPD Portfolio.

Desirable

• oMSc in Clinical Pharmacy.
• oFormal Management training.
• oDiploma Tutor accreditation.
• oMember of Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
• oWorking towards RPS faculty recognition.
• oAdvanced Clinical Practitioner qualification.
• oMember of UKCPA

Knowledge and Experience

Essential

• oExtensive operational experience at a Senior Hospital Pharmacist level, demonstrating a high degree of autonomy.
• oExperience of supporting Divisional Pharmacist or equivalent, to include financial expenditure reporting, formulary application, guideline writing.
• oExperience with working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• oTeaching, supervising and training staff
• oExperience of practice research or audits
• oExperience with working as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• oGood core clinical knowledge of therapeutics and pharmacology.
• oAppraisal/personal development.

Desirable

• oExperience of managing others
• oChange and Risk Management
• oSpecialist knowledge of care of surgical patients

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Demonstrates a level of clinical reasoning, problem solving and judgement
• Good Interpersonal/excellent communication
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to work independently and as a member of a multidisciplinary team
• Ability to prioritise
• Ability to delegate
• Ability to manage time effectively
• Information appraisal
• IT skills with Word, Excel

Desirable

• Advanced IT skills (database, spreadsheets etc.)

Persoanl Qualities and Attributes

Essential

• Passionate and committed to bring our Dedicated to Excellence values to life, improving the way we work with each other, particularly focusing on empowerment, equality diversity and inclusion of our staff, patients and service users
• Credibility with Senior Managers and clinical staff
• Professional manner
• Innovative
• Willingness to learn and develop personally
• Ability to work in physically and emotionally challenging environment with emotive patient cohort

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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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).