Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Medicines Information

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

The closing date is 17 April 2025

Job summary

Expected Shortlisting Date

16/04/2025

Planned Interview Date

28/04/2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified clinical pharmacist to join our dynamic team working in our busy Medicines Advice Service at Leeds.

As a specialist clinical pharmacist in Medicines Advice, you will be responsible for the provision of evidence-based advice to healthcare professionals and patients, to help patients get the most from their medicines. In addition, you will provide training and mentoring for staff from pharmacy and beyond, to aid them in developing their critical appraisal, communication and Medicines Advice skills. To ensure your clinical skills remain up to date, you will be expected to maintain a ward-based pharmacy commitment, and you will have the opportunity to work with the wider Leeds Medicines Advisory Service team of medicines safety, commissioning, formulary, Drug and Therapeutics and primary care interface.

The wide variety of work undertaken by Leeds Medicines Advice will allow you to gain experience across a broad range of pharmacy areas, opening up the opportunity to take your career forward in many different directions. If you are excited by working in a busy teaching hospital environment and are driven to provide the highest level of service to patients and staff - we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Answering questions about medicines from healthcare professionals and patients, ensuring your advice is supported by the best available clinical evidence

Applying your clinical pharmacy knowledge and experience to help patients get the most from their medicines

Providing training for others to support them develop core Medicines Advice skills

Looking for opportunities to develop and improve our service

Providing a clinical pharmacy service to our inpatient wards

About us

We are a busy Medicines Advice service based in Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, handling approximately 4,500 queries a year from a variety of sources. We provide a significant amount of training for pharmacy staff in answering questions about medicines, and use our expertise in evidence-based decision making about medicines to support the wider pharmacy team and the Trust. We also contribute to the national UK Medicines Information network (UKMi), and actively participate in our regional Yorkshire and Humber Medicines Information group.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. Employing 20,000 staff we offer a range of both general and specialist hospital services with excellent clinical outcomes for patients. We have an international reputation for excellence in specialist care, research and academic training.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy and we reserve the right to close, delay or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Date posted

27 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

C9298-MMP-366

Job locations

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB DIMENSIONS

Provide a specialist clinical pharmacist service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within a given specialty. Ensure medicines are used appropriately, safely, and cost effectively in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures, and medicines legislation.

Monitors drug use within their clinical area. This includes recording of significant clinical interventions, risk management, and some basic financial aspects.

Supervise, along with other members of their multidisciplinary team, the development and implementation of treatment protocols, and guidelines for use of drugs within the clinical area.

Responsible for the training and induction of pharmacists, and other health care professionals, to medicines information and on aspects of drug use within the clinical area.

To act as the Responsible Pharmacist in line with local procedure

THE LEEDS WAY VALUES

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

Patient-centred

Collaborative

Fair

Accountable

Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values.

Additionally the following are core values which relate specifically to this post:

Professional attitude.

Communicate with patients, colleagues, and other professionals in an honest and open manner with integrity.

Strict adherence to patient confidentiality.

Committed to Continuing Professional Development (CPD).

PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Provide specialist clinical service to patients and other members of the multi-disciplinary team within the given specialty

Organisation and planning of own workload on an on-going basis

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.

Supervise, teach, and assess junior pharmacy staff completing training modules within the clinical area.

Lecturing on clinical issues relevant to the specialty, as part of the pre-registration 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.

Participate in any medicines related clinical trials in the specialty.

Propose and carry out clinical pharmacy practice research within their clinical area, and participate in any larger pharmacy research and audit.

Work within standard operational procedures, Trust policy, and wider professional guidelines.

Provide a service commitment (typically one 4 hour session) to a specified area within the pharmacy department i.e dispensary, aseptics, or medicines information.

Participate in evening, weekend and bank holiday pharmacy service on a rotational basis, and where contracted, the emergency duty service.