Job summary
Expected Shortlisting
Date
28/04/2025
Planned Interview
Date
06/05/2025
Are
you a clinical pharmacist with a passion for delivering high quality care to
patients, working in a multi-disciplinary team and developing your career?
Due
to changes within the team an exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably
qualified clinical pharmacist to join our dynamic unplanned care team and
work in A&E with an opportunity to upskill and work in the SDEC unit.
The
unplanned care team are at the forefront of delivering innovative care. 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.
This
is an excellent development opportunity where you will gain experience in
managing patients with a wide range of clinical conditions, ensuring
efficient patient flow, and high level involvement with the whole MDT. You
will be actively involved in medicine governance on the admissions wards, and
developing and updating medicine guidance. You must be able to demonstrate
that you work well independently and as part of a team. You must be able to
demonstrate that you have excellent prioritisation skills and work well in a
fast paced, high turnover setting. This is an excellent opportunity to
develop yourself and gain more skills within a supportive team.
Main duties of the job
Leads
the highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients and the
multidisciplinary team within Emergency Medicine. Ensures medicines are used
appropriately, safely, and cost-effectively in accordance with Trust policy,
standard operating procedures and medicine legislation. The post holder is
expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieved in specific
circumstances.
Manage
other pharmacists providing specialised clinical pharmacy service within own
clinical speciality depending on size of area.
Works
directly and regularly with consultants, senior nursing staff and managers
within the clinical speciality.
Provides the Directorate with regular
reports to assist in the safe use of medicines, the management of the drug
budget and clinical governance issues. The report also includes risk
management such as the recording of significant clinical interventions and
near misses.
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 training pharmacists, and other health care professionals, on aspects of
drug use within the clinical area.
Provides
minimum of at least one 4 hour session of service cover in the dispensary or
aseptic dispensary each week. Participates in evening, weekend and bank
holiday rota.
Cross
site working may also be required for this post.
About us
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
Deal with customers in an honest
and open manner with integrity
Strict adherence to patient
confidentiality
Committed to CPD
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.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Lead the highly specialised
clinical pharmacy service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within
ED.
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.
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 pharmacy.
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.
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
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
Participates in research and
development within clinical speciality
Undertakes own research/audit
within clinical speciality
Supervise, teach, and assess junior
pharmacy 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 junior pharmacists in their area of specialist practice
- Being a named tutor for a
pre-registration and/or diploma pharmacist
- 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.
Other
Provide a service commitment,
typically a four hour session to a specific area within the pharmacy
department e.g. dispensary, aseptics or medicines information
Perform other duties as directed by
manager
Participate in the weekend service
and where contracted, the emergency duty service
Job description
Job responsibilities
Clinical
Lead the highly specialised
clinical pharmacy service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within
ED.
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.
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 pharmacy.
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.
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
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
Participates in research and
development within clinical speciality
Undertakes own research/audit
within clinical speciality
Supervise, teach, and assess junior
pharmacy 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 junior pharmacists in their area of specialist practice
- Being a named tutor for a
pre-registration and/or diploma pharmacist
- 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.
Other
Provide a service commitment,
typically a four hour session to a specific area within the pharmacy
department e.g. dispensary, aseptics or medicines information
Perform other duties as directed by
manager
Participate in the weekend service
and where contracted, the emergency duty service
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Understanding and appreciation of local and national pharmaceutical and clinical strategies
- Understanding of NHS/government policy and its applications
Desirable
- Team dynamics and effective leadership strategies to optimise performance
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Self motivated
- Able to work under own initiative
Desirable
- Be highly adaptive to changing circumstances and situations
Qualifications
Essential
- Registrant of the GPhC
- Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable
- Non medical prescriber status
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Understanding and appreciation of local and national pharmaceutical and clinical strategies
- Understanding of NHS/government policy and its applications
Desirable
- Team dynamics and effective leadership strategies to optimise performance
Skills & behaviours
Essential
- Self motivated
- Able to work under own initiative
Desirable
- Be highly adaptive to changing circumstances and situations
Qualifications
Essential
- Registrant of the GPhC
- Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable
- Non medical prescriber status
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.
