Advanced Pharmacist - Clinical Services

Job description

Job responsibilities

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust: Bracton CampusPharmacy Department

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of mental health and community health services. These include acute adult and elderly mental health units and community teams based at a number of locations in Bexley, Bromley and Greenwich boroughs, and an intermediate care unit based at Queen Marys Hospital (QMH), Sidcup.

The Trust has dispensaries located at QMH and the Bracton campus, Dartford; both are registered with the GPhC and the QMH pharmacy store holds a wholesale dealers licence. Within Oxleas, clinical pharmacists are an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, with regular ward attendance and provision of a medicines information service which includes a patient telephone advice line.

Pharmacy also provide support to patients within the community, including to Community Mental Health teams and a home assessment Medicines Optimisation service to patients within Bromley.

1. To develop and provide an advanced clinical pharmacy service to inpatient services across the Trust and measure associated outcomes.

To be a leader for improving patients experience of medicines use i.e., provision of information and advice about treatment options, side-effects, on-going monitoring

To ensure compliance with clinical governance standards for medicines management, in accordance with overall professional guidance and NHS policy

Propose policy changes for own specialist area, which may impact on other disciplines.

Supporting the Pharmacy Team leader and deputy to ensure provision of clinical pharmacy services is maintained consistently.

2. Supporting the Community Services Pharmacist, lead on writing and reviewing Patient Group Directions and support service managers to monitor and implement these.

3. To assess patients for medicines nonadherence and clinical issues, recommending and implementing interventions to overcome any identified problems

4. When appropriate, to review medicines reconciliation, and using clinical judgement solve any clinical problems identified

5. Provide clinically sound, evaluated information in response to a wide variety of complex enquiries from all grades of health care professionals and service users accessing the service

6. To advise consultants and other clinicians with respect to the pharmacological management of complex cases; this requires decisions to be taken where there is a lack of evidence, or the evidence is conflicting

7. To provide advice to patients about how to take their medicines and address any concerns they may have

8. To support carers with any concerns or practical problems around the use of medicines

9. To follow-up to ensure that the interventions that have been put in place have been successful

10. To work with the pharmacy patient safety-lead to implement medicines safety initiatives.

11. To participate in the recruitment and selection of junior pharmacists

12. To participate in the dispensary rota, undertaking the following duties with minimal supervision

professional responsibility for clinical screening of all prescriptions to ensure the accuracy, legality, safety and efficacy of prescribed medication.

liaising with doctors and nurses to resolve any queries arising from the screening process.

undertaking the final accuracy check on prescriptions dispensed by other pharmacy staff.

13. To participate in the medicines information rota, providing clinically sound, evaluated information in response to a wide variety of complex enquiries from all grades of health care professionals and service users.

14. To participate in clinical quality improvement projects as required, including feedback and action planning

15. To participate in departmental clinical meetings.

16. To participate in the Trust medicines management induction programme for all new clinical staff.

17. To be responsible for planning and organising own workload in accordance with the requirements of the job.

18. To participate in the pharmacy emergency on-call service.

19. To undertake any other relevant duties, as may be required by the Chief Pharmacist.

Person Specification

GPhC registration

Essential

• 6 years post-registration

Clinical pharmacy experience

Essential

• 4 years post registration

Post-graduate accreditation/qualification

Essential

• Post-graduate accreditation/qualification or relevant experience

Desirable

• Post-graduate accreditation/qualification in mental health

Driving & vehicle

Essential

• Full valid UK driving licence & access to a car for work purposes

Mental health experience

Desirable

• Experience of working with people with mental health problems

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

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Bracken Pharmacy

Bracton Centre

Dartford

DA2 7AN

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)