Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Neuro-Critical Care & Neurosciences

Job description

Job responsibilities

Main Tasks and Responsibilities Direct Patient Care

1. Deliver compassionate excellence via a patient focused clinical pharmacy service, in accordance with national medicines optimisation principles and local clinical pharmacy procedures.
2. Analyse prescriptions, alongside technical resources, patient records and information from patient consults to form an opinion on the most appropriate course of action.
3. Accurately and sensitively communicate medicines related information to a variety of healthcare professionals and patients including those with language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities, in a way that facilitates shared decision making.
4. Participate in and promote antimicrobial stewardship, medicines safety, and medicines effectiveness initiatives.
5. Provide highly specialised advice and guidance on patient management in areas where evidence base is lacking or opinions are conflicting.
6. Apply advanced clinical knowledge and skills in the delivery of care for individuals or groups with complex care needs.
7. When registered with the GPhC and the OUH, prescribe within the Trusts policy for Non-medical Prescribing.
8. Independently manage patients in ambulatory settings, and/or proactively review patients as part of a multidisciplinary ward round.
9. Optimise transfer of patient care, though timely completion of medicines reconciliation and communication with GPs and community pharmacy teams.
10. Support OUH dispensaries, and liaise with external agencies (Such as aseptic production services or homecare providers) to ensure safe, timely and appropriate supply of medications to patients.

Leadership and Management

1. Act as a role model for pharmacy within the Trust, demonstrating the GPhC Standards for Pharmacy Professionals, RPS Core Advanced capabilities and our Trust values.
2. Support and promote the Trusts equality, diversity and inclusion principles.
3. Take actions to improve the health of the population and reduce health inequalities.
4. Promote the sustainable use of medicines inline with the Trusts Green Plan
5. Plan and organise your own workload in alignment with professional and organisational priorities. Support others to do the same. Delegate and escalate appropriately.
6. Accept professional accountability for all actions and advice.
7. Line manage designated staff in line with the Trusts HR policies and procedures, including job planning, annual appraisal and supporting the recruitment, deployment and retention of colleagues
8. Motivate and support individuals to deliver defined objectives and continuously improve performance.
9. Develop, implement and monitor Medicines Management policies and procedures, including MILs, PGDs and injectable monographs related to your area of practice.
10. Represent your service at relevant OUH meetings as appropriate e.g. Home Care User Group, High Cost Medicines Group, Pharmacy Systems Optimisation, Governance,
11. Provide advice to your service on all aspects of medicines management.
12. Promote compliance with medicines legislation and Trust policies and procedures.
13. Report any unexpected or untoward events via the Trusts incident reporting system
14. Investigate medication related incidents and complaints in your service.
15. In appropriate situations deputise for the Directorate Lead Pharmacist/ Consultant Pharmacist, as required
16. Take on any additional specific roles as agreed with the Directorate Lead Pharmacist, in the process of one to ones, appraisal or job planning.
17. Take on any additional specific roles as agreed with Senior Pharmacy Managers, on behalf of the Directorate, Division, or Trust.

Research and Improvement

1. Participate in, support, supervise and lead on Audits, Service evaluation and Quality/Cost Improvement Projects that align to our strategy and support our culture of continuous improvement.
2. Analyse and critically appraise highly complex facts in order to ensure evidence-based practice and accurate financial costings when producing reviews of medicines for formulary applications.
3. Support the supply of medicines for clinical trials.
4. Identify gaps in the evidence base; build own research practice by using appropriate methods for addressing the identified gap(s) and generate new evidence.
5. Implement changes at a team and/or service level based on the outputs of research and/or quality improvement activity and disseminate findings.

Training and Development

1. Complete a local induction programme, including core training and maintain core skills throughout employment.
2. Seek feedback and participate in annual appraisal process.
3. Reflect on practice to critically assess own learning needs and pro-actively engage in professional development.
4. Once meeting the requirements to act as a Designated Prescribing Practitioner (DPP), fulfil this role to continue to develop pharmacists within your team.
5. Design and delivers educational interventions that impact at a team and/or organisational level, supporting members of the pharmacy team, wider multidisciplinary team, and/or service users, to safely and effectively use medicines.
6. Support colleagues within your team to be aware of practice changes and developments. Encourage expertise in their area of specialist practice, and to share exemplary practice by acting as a resource.
7. Tutor and support trainee foundation pharmacists and technicians, and those completing the postgraduate diploma.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• First degree in Pharmacy (Masters) or equivalent
• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Post-Graduate Clinical Pharmacy Diploma or equivalent experience.
• Leadership qualification or
• Independent Prescriber

Desirable criteria

• MSc in Clinical Pharmacy
• Teaching qualification
• Coaching qualification
• RPS Credentialing
• Human Factors Training

Experience

Essential criteria

• Broad clinical pharmacy provision in a number of different clinical areas or sectors.
• Working with senior clinicians and managers.
• Understanding of medication funding streams, drug usage and expenditure reports and use of financial reports to influence business cases and clinical practice.
• Delivering quality improvements.
• Medicines management policy development and implementation.
• Change management at a team level.
• Risk management and investigation of Incidents.

Desirable criteria

• Recent clinical experience in the critical care.
• Recognition as an expert in a relevant clinical field at Trust level.
• Working across organisational boundaries.
• Implementing a cost reduction programme.
• Line management
• Clinical tutor for post graduate diploma
• Acting as a DPP
• Leading a team.

Personal Skills

Essential criteria

• Evidence based, methodical approach.
• Excellent clinical prioritisation.
• Negotiating and influencing.
• Problem identification and resolution.
• Proven time management skills
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Able to work autonomously or within a team.
• Excellent communication & Interpersonal skills.

Desirable criteria

• Evidence of balancing conflicting priorities
• Member of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
• Member of relevant professional group e.g. UKCPA
• Ability to travel to all sites including the use of public transport

Behavioural Skills

Essential criteria

• Acts in accordance with the Trust values
• Adaptable and resilient
• Professional at all times
• Growth mindset, and continuing professional development.
• Appreciation of the value of equality diversity and inclusion
• Ability to motivate self and others.
• Professional and personal integrity
• Facilitative, collaborative leadership approach

Desirable criteria

• Enthusiasm
• Positive attitude to all tasks and stakeholders.

Technical Skills

Essential criteria

• Working knowledge of Office 365

Desirable criteria

• Experience using Cerner Millenium

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council

Desirable

• MSc in Clinical Pharmacy

Experience

Essential

• Broad clinical pharmacy provision in a number of different clinical areas or sectors.

Desirable

• Recent clinical experience in the critical care.

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

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

John Radcliffe Hospital

Headley Way

Oxford

OX3 9DU

Employer's website

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