Job summary
As part of Mersey Cares Operational Transformation Programme an exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated clinical pharmacist to provide Medicines Management support to community specialist nursing teams.
The post holder will work as an advanced clinical pharmacist supporting with queries and medication reviews for Specialist Nursing Teams (such as the Frailty, Heart Failure, Community Palliative Care Teams) and the Urgent Community Response Team.
The post holder will complete medication reviews for patients to support them to get the best possible outcomes from their medicines. This will involve analysing and interpreting highly complex clinical situations and communicate effective medicines optimisation solutions. They will support an integrated approach to medicines optimisation, helping to ensure patients have access to the Medicines Optimisation support they require to improve patient outcomes. The post holder will work and communicate effectively within a multi-disciplinary team.
The postholder will provide specialist information, education, training and advice to members of the multi-disciplinary team to maximise pharmaceutical care.
You will receive clinical supervision and peer support from a large Medicines Management team within Merseycare NHS Foundation Trust.
Main duties of the job
Support with queries and Domiciliary Medication Reviews for patients under review by the Urgent Community Response Team. This will also include supporting existing Medicines Management pharmacists and technicians already embedded within these teams.
Developing and delivering a clinical pharmacy service within community physical health services to specialist nursing teams (such as the Frailty, Heart Failure and Community Palliative Care Team)
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1.To conduct medication reviews in patients on high-risk medicines, complex medication issues and/or those with medication adherence issues or another medicines related issue. This may involve travelling to the patients normal place of residence to carry out a domiciliary assessment.2.To involve patients and their carers in decisions about their medicines to jointly develop a medicines care plan to help patients to get the best from their medicines.3.To manage complex medicines optimisation problems within the team and across the interface.4.To identify and communicate recommendations from the medicines assessment to the patients own GP & multi-disciplinary team (MDT) as appropriate. Where appropriate discuss with the secondary care prescriber and pharmacy team, and community pharmacy.5.To ensure agreed actions related to medicines are implemented and have appropriate follow up plans.6.To participate in multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings, providing expert pharmaceutical advice on complex medicines related issues.7.To work with inpatient health professionals, secondary care, community health, primary care and social care services to optimise patient centred care in respect to medicines.8.To work with hospital & community pharmacy team(s) to identify and develop solutions to medicines related issues and improve communication about medicines at the interface.
Please see attached job description and person specification for full details.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1.To conduct medication reviews in patients on high-risk medicines, complex medication issues and/or those with medication adherence issues or another medicines related issue. This may involve travelling to the patients normal place of residence to carry out a domiciliary assessment.2.To involve patients and their carers in decisions about their medicines to jointly develop a medicines care plan to help patients to get the best from their medicines.3.To manage complex medicines optimisation problems within the team and across the interface.4.To identify and communicate recommendations from the medicines assessment to the patients own GP & multi-disciplinary team (MDT) as appropriate. Where appropriate discuss with the secondary care prescriber and pharmacy team, and community pharmacy.5.To ensure agreed actions related to medicines are implemented and have appropriate follow up plans.6.To participate in multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) meetings, providing expert pharmaceutical advice on complex medicines related issues.7.To work with inpatient health professionals, secondary care, community health, primary care and social care services to optimise patient centred care in respect to medicines.8.To work with hospital & community pharmacy team(s) to identify and develop solutions to medicines related issues and improve communication about medicines at the interface.
Please see attached job description and person specification for full details.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master of Pharmacy Degree, or equivalent qualification
- Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent experience
- Independent prescriber qualification, or willingness to work towards
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Advanced Clinical Practice qualification, or willingness to work towards
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Leadership or management qualification/training
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of working within an NHS organisation
- Experience of working in hospital pharmacy
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Experience of undertaking audit within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of providing supervision
- Experience of providing education regarding medicines
- Understanding of how medicines optimisation contributes to high quality patient care
- Clear understanding of relevant legislation and guidance
- Awareness of local area prescribing committee processes
- Understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities, and their carers
- Demonstrable evidence of commitment to self development and CPD
Desirable
- Experience of providing a pharmacy service within a primary care setting
- Experience of provision of medicines information services
- Experience of line management of staff
- Knowledge of recent and upcoming initiatives within pharmaceutical services
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential
- Excellent organisational skills
- Good IT skills
- Excellent communication skills: - written - verbal - listening
- Ability to work both independently and as a team player
- Ability to work flexibly
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively to meet specified deadlines
- Self-motivated and able to use initiative
- Problem-solving skills
- Report-writing skills
- Ability to analyse data
- Negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands
- Recognition of own limitations and ability to ask for support when necessary
- Professional manner
- Ability to travel between different sites
Desirable
- Project management skills
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master of Pharmacy Degree, or equivalent qualification
- Postgraduate diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, or equivalent experience
- Independent prescriber qualification, or willingness to work towards
- Registration with General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Advanced Clinical Practice qualification, or willingness to work towards
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)
- Leadership or management qualification/training
Knowledge/Experience
Essential
- Experience of working within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of working within an NHS organisation
- Experience of working in hospital pharmacy
- Experience of multi-disciplinary team working
- Experience of undertaking audit within pharmaceutical services
- Experience of providing supervision
- Experience of providing education regarding medicines
- Understanding of how medicines optimisation contributes to high quality patient care
- Clear understanding of relevant legislation and guidance
- Awareness of local area prescribing committee processes
- Understanding and positive regard for the needs and rights of people with mental health problems or learning disabilities, and their carers
- Demonstrable evidence of commitment to self development and CPD
Desirable
- Experience of providing a pharmacy service within a primary care setting
- Experience of provision of medicines information services
- Experience of line management of staff
- Knowledge of recent and upcoming initiatives within pharmaceutical services
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Skills
Essential
- Excellent organisational skills
- Good IT skills
- Excellent communication skills: - written - verbal - listening
- Ability to work both independently and as a team player
- Ability to work flexibly
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to prioritise workload and manage time effectively to meet specified deadlines
- Self-motivated and able to use initiative
- Problem-solving skills
- Report-writing skills
- Ability to analyse data
- Negotiating and influencing skills
- Ability to adapt to changing environments, needs and demands
- Recognition of own limitations and ability to ask for support when necessary
- Professional manner
- Ability to travel between different sites
Desirable
- Project management skills
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).
Additional information
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).
