Job summary
Job Title: Interface Frailty Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist
Division: Unplanned & Integrated Care
Band: 8a
Salary: £47,126 - £53,219 per annum/pro rata
Interview Date: Week Commencing Monday 6th June 2022
Contract: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Part-Time working requests will be considered)
We are recruiting for an Interface Frailty Medicines Optimisation Pharmacist as part of our next expanding Integrated Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Team (IMOPT). We encourage those who share our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best Peopleand the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.
We as a team are keen to focus on continuous improvement of our services for the benefit of our patients and welcome new ideas and opportunities.
Main duties of the job
The pharmacy department sits within the Unplanned and Integrated Care Directorate and provides medicines optimisation services to the entire Trust. The Frailty Directorate is undergoing an exciting expansion with the development of a new Frailty 7-day service , Rapid Access Clinic for Elderly (R.A.C.E) outpatient clinics. This role would be supporting the development of a new exciting expansion within the department to create an Integrated Frailty Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Network and a desire by the team to focus on continuous improvement of our services for the benefit of our patients. Education and Training to ensure development of our staff is a key priority.
Our values are Bold, Every Person Counts, Sharing and Open and Together. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.
We are committed to endorsing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion; our policies / procedures ensure that all applicants are treated fairly at every stage of the recruitment process.
About us
Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved. Our culture and values are what drives the Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation.
Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious environment.
The NHS are striving towards "we work flexibly" as a workforce, we want to ensure that you can work in a way that is best for us, our patients, and importantly for you. We offer many flexible working opportunities, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement for you and if it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
All of our substantive & fixed term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme.
We are taking positive action to ensure that we can attract, recruit and retain the best talent and would welcome more applicants from under - represented groups to support the Trusts commitment to a diverse, inclusive and an employer of choice workforce.
All staff at Medway comply the Trust's and the Kent and Medway Safeguarding Board's policies on safeguarding children, young people and vulnerable adults.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role will be cross sector working in the community with multiple agencies and Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to support with complex medication reviews for patients in their own homes or in care homes. The role will involve managing the delivery and development of the clinical pharmacy support and input of multidisciplinary reviews for complex, vulnerable, frail & elderly patients across Kent, Medway and Swale in the community. The role presents an exciting opportunity to work as part of an interagency, multidisciplinary team to support patients living with frailty in the local community. This is part of an expanding Frailty network and Integrated Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Team (IMOPT) supporting the domiciliary care of vulnerable patients alongside medicines management and governance in rehab units.
This post will involve leading on medicines optimisation strategies including palliative and end of life care. To utilise tools such as STOPP-START, STOMP, 7 STEPs in response to the National Overprescribing Review pledge of September 2021 around polypharmacy and overprescribing; reducing medication waste.
Please note, if you are considering applying for a role within our organisation we do recommend that staff are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, this is no longer a mandatory requirement.
Job description
Job responsibilities
This role will be cross sector working in the community with multiple agencies and Primary Care Networks (PCNs) to support with complex medication reviews for patients in their own homes or in care homes. The role will involve managing the delivery and development of the clinical pharmacy support and input of multidisciplinary reviews for complex, vulnerable, frail & elderly patients across Kent, Medway and Swale in the community. The role presents an exciting opportunity to work as part of an interagency, multidisciplinary team to support patients living with frailty in the local community. This is part of an expanding Frailty network and Integrated Medicines Optimisation Pharmacy Team (IMOPT) supporting the domiciliary care of vulnerable patients alongside medicines management and governance in rehab units.
This post will involve leading on medicines optimisation strategies including palliative and end of life care. To utilise tools such as STOPP-START, STOMP, 7 STEPs in response to the National Overprescribing Review pledge of September 2021 around polypharmacy and overprescribing; reducing medication waste.
Please note, if you are considering applying for a role within our organisation we do recommend that staff are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, this is no longer a mandatory requirement.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master's degree in Pharmacy
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacist in the UK (or eligible to be)
- Specialist post-graduate qualification such as clinical diploma or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Independent prescribing qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates knowledge of medicine in frailty and elderly care
- Understanding of frailty syndromes and principles of medicines optimisation
- Good core therapeutic knowledge
- Knowledge of and ability to apply all aspects of regulatory legislation and guidelines
Experience
Essential
- Hospital pharmacy experience
- Understanding of working effectively within multidisciplinary groups
- Evidence of good ward practice, medicines management and participation on ward rounds
- Proven experience of delivering responsibilities and objectives to time in previous posts
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrates ability to identify problems, analyse root cause and propose solutions for complex problems
- Able to solve difficult and ambiguous problems by advanced reasoning and sound technical judgment
- Able to manage and support others
- Able to plan, organise and manage services
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master's degree in Pharmacy
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council as a Pharmacist in the UK (or eligible to be)
- Specialist post-graduate qualification such as clinical diploma or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Independent prescribing qualification
Knowledge
Essential
- Demonstrates knowledge of medicine in frailty and elderly care
- Understanding of frailty syndromes and principles of medicines optimisation
- Good core therapeutic knowledge
- Knowledge of and ability to apply all aspects of regulatory legislation and guidelines
Experience
Essential
- Hospital pharmacy experience
- Understanding of working effectively within multidisciplinary groups
- Evidence of good ward practice, medicines management and participation on ward rounds
- Proven experience of delivering responsibilities and objectives to time in previous posts
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrates ability to identify problems, analyse root cause and propose solutions for complex problems
- Able to solve difficult and ambiguous problems by advanced reasoning and sound technical judgment
- Able to manage and support others
- Able to plan, organise and manage services
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.
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).
Additional information
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).
