Principle Pharmacist Reablement and Frailty

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. To provide, deliver and develop the pharmacy service to the Reablement ward, embedding safe medicines management systems

2. To complete patient-centred medicine reviews and liaise with a prescriber, or use the skills as a pharmacist prescriber, to alter prescribed medicines

3. To support patients to get the best outcomes from their medicines by identifying and addressing medicines related issues which are important to the individual

4. To optimise medicines to support individuals living with frailty to meet their rehabilitation goals

5. To reduce inappropriate polypharmacy

6. To improve adherence and patients understanding of medicines

7. To assess the appropriateness of monitored dosage systems, by carrying out individual assessments, and taking specific practical actions to address problems of medicines adherence

8. Communicate highly complex medicine related information with patients and/or their carers who may have language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities

9. To liaise with relevant health and social care professionals about the patients needs including ongoing monitoring requirements

10. Participate in daily multi-disciplinary bedside reviews, providing expert pharmaceutical advice to help create individualised plans for identified medication related issues

11. To support and provide medication advice to other members of the multi-disciplinary team

12. To develop and implement a self-administration policy which enables patients to independently and safely manage their medications on the Reablement ward

13. To provide in-reach to acute in-patient wards and post-discharge follow-up pharmaceutical reviews as needed

14. To support patient safety, service development and flow as patients transfer between care settings

15. To develop links and work collaboratively with pharmacists, other healthcare professionals and agencies to ensure optimum pharmaceutical care for patients during rehabilitation and on discharge to the community

16. To identify and highlight any medicines optimisation clinical governance issues, including liaising with relevant staff and monitoring any resulting action plans

17. To follow procedures to reduce medication harm and medicine waste

18. To provide expert advice to pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals to encourage and ensure good prescribing practices, optimise outcomes and reduce individual patient and organisational risk.

19. To ensure services provided are in line with local and national policies, guidelines and frameworks e.g. NICE, Patient Safety Alerts.

20. To develop, implement, evaluate and monitor medicines management guidelines, policies and procedures to ensure the safe and effective use of medicines associated within the Reablement ward

21. To assist in the maintenance and development of clinical, medicines management and departmental procedures as requested.

22. To identify and address prescribing issues across the interface pertaining to the division and to ensure seamless transfer of pharmaceutical care for patients liaising with the other acute Trusts, GPs, Community and PCN pharmacists as appropriate.

23. To work in collaboration with the Lead Pharmacist for Sutton Virtual Ward to action plan for common issues related to the transfer of information related to medicines across the interface

24. To identify, report and where necessary, investigate issues relating to medicines risk management and incidents, working with senior colleagues to implement appropriate solutions to minimise or alleviate future risk.

25. To participate in clinical incident reporting, assisting in investigations and complaints that require paediatric expertise.

26. To promote safe, rational and cost-effective use of medicines in accordance with SWL Joint Formulary and the recommendations and other evidence based guidelines, particularly in relation to Frailty, Deprescribing and Medicines Optimisation

27. To write, monitor, review and update policies, guidelines and procedures designed to improve the pharmacy services to patients within the Reablement ward

28. To participate in the ward/clinical pharmacy service to monitor prescriptions and to provide pharmaceutical advice/drug information (on choice of medicines/dosage/side effects etc.) as appropriate, to health care professionals and patients/carers, to promote the safe, effective and economic use of medicines.

29. To undertake dispensing/checking of prescriptions for patients using the Pharmacy Computer System and in accordance with departmental policies and procedures, providing dispensary cover as required.

30. To participate in departmental meetings to maintain and develop the pharmaceutical service contributing to the development of new procedures as required.

31. To be an authorised signatory for orders placed for pharmaceutical stock with wholesalers and other manufacturers.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Post graduate diploma in clinical Pharmacy Practice or equivalent
• Mandatory CPD to maintain fitness to practice

Desirable

• Non Medical Prescriber fo the Royal Pharmaceutical Society

Experience

Essential

• Post registration hospital experience
• Multidisciplinary working
• Demonstrate evidence of good clinical knowledge and skills, knowledge of medicines in polypharmacy and frailty, care of older people and reablement
• Experience of divisional work
• Experience of audit and quality improvement projects

Desirable

• Project/practice research
• Clinical governance and risk management

Skills and Abilities

Essential

• Excellent communication skills, interpersonal skills and organisational skills
• Ability to analyse and interpret complex clinical information
• Good presentation skills, time management, ability to work independently and part of a team
• Ability to work under pressure and prioritise work effectively and problem solving

Desirable

• Familiarity with CMM pharmacy computer system
• Good negotiation skills, IT skills
• Ability to manage change

General

Essential

• Commitment to CPP
• Professional and enthusiastic

Desirable

• Calm, patient, access to own transport.

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.

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

Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Address

St Helier Hospital

Wrythe Lane

Carshalton

SM5 1AA

Employer's website

https://www.epsom-sthelier.nhs.uk/work-for-us (Opens in a new tab)