Advanced Clinical Pharmacist

Job description

Job responsibilities

Principal Duties & Areas of Responsibility

Clinical

Provide a highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within a given clinical speciality.

Supports the Trust's Prescribing Standards and challenges practice where prescribers have not adhered to the Medicines Code.

Demonstrate the ability to provide safe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation. This will include individual prescription review to optimise therapy, advising on dosage and side effects and on safe administration of medicines. The post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieve in specific circumstances.

Pharmacists who are registered as prescribers will, with the agreement of the clinical director of the speciality, prescribe within their level of competence, to support patient care.

Plan, manage, monitor and review individual patient care plans.

Participate in consultant ward rounds and multi-disciplinary team meetings.

Manage difficult and ambiguous problems, often when information is limited.

Undertake risk management, including investigating clinical incidents in the clinical area and ensuring compliance with medicine legislation.

The post holder will be expected to identify, where necessary, areas that require service changes and develop a strategy to carry out the change through consultation with senior colleagues within and outside the cardiology.

Manage the introduction of new drugs, including unlicensed drugs, into the clinical speciality.

Manage the clinical pharmacist input into clinical trials.

Develop and update policies for the safe, effective and economic use of medicines through discussion with medical and nursing staff.

Communication with Primary Care about medicines policies or guidelines specific for their area of practice.

Leeds Medicines Advisory Service

Lead on specific aspects of the Medicines Safety agenda and provide expert opinion, both within and outside cardiology within the Trust to ensure the safe and effective delivery of drug therapy.

Take an active role in review of incidents and sharing learning from these in cardiology and across the Trust.

Project manage the development and maintenance of specific Trustwide polices/guidelines and other action plans that are necessary for effective Medicines Safety eg. Trust Injectable Medicines Code.

Play a key role in the investigation of medicine related incidents and agreement of action plans.

To work across the Medicines Advisory Service team as required.

Assist the Lead Pharmacist - Innovative CaReMe Medicines Optimisation Services in developing and delivering medicines-risk related education and training to healthcare professionals.

Management

Monitor and interpret expenditure on medicines within own clinical speciality. Provide the Directorate with regular reports to assist in the management of the drug budget

a. Attend the monthly Clinical Speciality Management meetings to advise on medicine use and financial implications

- Horizon scan for new drugs and advise the clinical speciality meetings on the financial implications

b. Co-ordinate Medicines Use Savings Projects

c. Review prescribing data from out-patient clinics

Contribution to financial initiatives

Write or respond to business cases for service development to secure additional funding.

Responsible for day to day supervision / management of specialist clinical pharmacists in clinical speciality (some staff)

Research and Education

Participate in research and development within clinical speciality

Undertakes own research/audit within clinical speciality

Supervise, teach, and assess staff completing training modules within the clinical area. This input varies, mostly based on the experience of the post holder, and will typically include:

- Acting as a trainer to pre-registration and other junior healthcare professionals in their area of specialist practice

- Lecturing on clinical issues relevant to the specialty, as part of the a training program, the clinical diploma, and any other in service training.

The post holder is also expected to participate in the training of other clinical professionals within their specialist area as requested.

Develop the role of a specialist pharmacist through national links.

Other

Perform other duties as directed by manager

Liaise with West Yorkshire ICB and Health Innovation around collaborative projects

Person Specification

Skills & behaviours

Essential

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong organisational and project management abilities
• Be highly adaptive to changing circumstances and situations

Desirable

• Familiarity with e-learning platforms and digital education tools

Experience

Essential

• Prior experience in delivering lipid optimisation clinical activity
• Clinical pharmacy knowledge in lipid optimisation
• Ability to demonstrate foundation level competencies in all 6 domains of the Advanced to Consultant Level Framework (ACLF
• Substantial post registration experience as a practising clinical pharmacist.
• Prior experience in developing educational materials / programmes

Desirable

• Primary care IT clinical systems and priorities
• Working across different specialties and healthcare systems
• Proven experience in medical education or clinical training roles
• Prior experience in co-ordination and delivery of educational events, including webinars, workshops, and podcasts

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters Qualification in Pharmacy (or equivalent)
• Registrant of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
• Non-medical prescriber

Desirable

• Lipid optimisation training

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Employer's website

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