Job summary
Are you a specialist pharmacist who wants to develop their skills in diagnostics and clinical decision making? Or maybe you wish to become a more autonomous clinician within Acute & Emergency medicine? If so, we are looking to expand our team and would love to hear from you.
This role will provide you with the skills in order to develop into an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP). Through undertaking a funded MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice, you will utilise both higher education learning alongside supported ward based teaching, delivered by experienced professionals. As a trainee ACP you have the perfect opportunity to build a work-based portfolio and continue to extend your existing skills and achieve relevant competencies.
Once successfully qualified as a Pharmacist-ACP, you will provide a hybrid service to Acute and Emergency Medicine areas of the hospital namely, A&E, Acute Medical Unit, Medical Short Stay unit and within our Medical Same Day Emergency Care clinics.
We have a friendly, experienced and clinically sophisticated team consisting of pharmacists, ACPs and consultant physicians to offer all the support you may need. We have successfully developed a number of pharmacist ACPs over the last few years and have an established training pathway in conjunction with a variety of higher education institutions
Main duties of the job
During your training years, you will embed yourself as the specialist pharmacist, identifying medicine-related and other issues for attendance/admission within the urgent care foot print. You will also be undertaking your MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice which will give you the opportunity to develop yourself in the four pillars: clinical practice, leadership, education and research. You will be supported to develop all of your new-found learning in a supernumerary manner, where you are able to safely practice with the oversight of experienced clinicians.
As a qualified pharmacist-ACP, your working week is shared between your role of a pharmacist and ACP. The role of the ACP incorporates all of your specialist pharmacist knowledge, with the additional learning of diagnostics, examination and complex clinical decision making, that the MSc ACP course offers.
Once qualified as a pharmacist-ACP you will be independently reviewing patients with undifferentiated diagnoses who have presented to hospital. This includes history-taking, examining patients, requesting & interpreting investigations (blood tests, radiological imaging etc.) and implementing management plans.
Whilst undertaking this role, you will be supported by medical teams on a day to day basis, consisting of a variety of healthcare professionals with a shared goal of improving patient care and healthcare outcomes for our population.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Work
independently once qualified or within the MDT, being responsible for delivering Advanced
Clinical Practitioner & Specialist Clinical Pharmacist roles to the Emergency
Department and Acute Medical Directorate at WRH. This will include assessing patients, identifying
medicine-related causes for attendance & admission and developing treatment plans
to optimise care
Function
as an Independent Prescriber or de-prescriber as needed, complying with all
requirements of the GPhC in relation to registration as an independent
prescriber and the associated professional responsibilities.
Make
critical decisions around the care needs of patients and communicate these to patients and other staff
members accordingly.
Provide
a specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to patients
and undertake pharmaceutical risk management to allocated wards within the
Acute Medical Directorate and the Emergency Department, WRH.
Use
his or her specialised knowledge of medicines to advise consultants, medical,
nursing and pharmacy staff on all pharmaceutical aspects of medicines for Acute
Medical patients.
Deliver
pharmaceutical care to patients in the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency
Department; recommend, substantiate and communicate best therapeutic options
for patients and implement changes in prescribing practice to ensure
evidence-based medicine is followed as appropriate.
Undertake
risk management for the pharmacy service to the Emergency Department and the
Acute Medical Directorate and ensure compliance with medicines legislation, the
Trust Medicines Policy, and medicines related national and local guidelines.
Undertake
clinical audit of medicine use and pharmacy services within the Acute Medical
Directorate and Emergency Department WRH.
Ensure
pharmaceutical aspects of research and clinical trials in acute medicine comply
with relevant legislation and conduct own practice-based audit/research on
pharmaceutical aspects of acute medicine.
Contribute
to keeping the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Departments drug
expenditure within agreed budgets.
See full job description for further information.
Improving Diversity and
Inclusive Recruitment:
As part of the Trust's aim to
improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all
applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request
to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the
minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role.
Applicants will be prompted
in the application form to declare if they wish to be considered under this
expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, and their response would be visible to
the Shortlisting Panel.
If you have any queries about
expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please contact Rob Saunders (HR Manager -
Recruitment) in confidence via email robert.saunders1@nhs.net
Job description
Job responsibilities
Work
independently once qualified or within the MDT, being responsible for delivering Advanced
Clinical Practitioner & Specialist Clinical Pharmacist roles to the Emergency
Department and Acute Medical Directorate at WRH. This will include assessing patients, identifying
medicine-related causes for attendance & admission and developing treatment plans
to optimise care
Function
as an Independent Prescriber or de-prescriber as needed, complying with all
requirements of the GPhC in relation to registration as an independent
prescriber and the associated professional responsibilities.
Make
critical decisions around the care needs of patients and communicate these to patients and other staff
members accordingly.
Provide
a specialist clinical pharmacy and medicines optimisation service to patients
and undertake pharmaceutical risk management to allocated wards within the
Acute Medical Directorate and the Emergency Department, WRH.
Use
his or her specialised knowledge of medicines to advise consultants, medical,
nursing and pharmacy staff on all pharmaceutical aspects of medicines for Acute
Medical patients.
Deliver
pharmaceutical care to patients in the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency
Department; recommend, substantiate and communicate best therapeutic options
for patients and implement changes in prescribing practice to ensure
evidence-based medicine is followed as appropriate.
Undertake
risk management for the pharmacy service to the Emergency Department and the
Acute Medical Directorate and ensure compliance with medicines legislation, the
Trust Medicines Policy, and medicines related national and local guidelines.
Undertake
clinical audit of medicine use and pharmacy services within the Acute Medical
Directorate and Emergency Department WRH.
Ensure
pharmaceutical aspects of research and clinical trials in acute medicine comply
with relevant legislation and conduct own practice-based audit/research on
pharmaceutical aspects of acute medicine.
Contribute
to keeping the Acute Medical Directorate and Emergency Departments drug
expenditure within agreed budgets.
See full job description for further information.
Improving Diversity and
Inclusive Recruitment:
As part of the Trust's aim to
improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all
applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request
to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the
minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role.
Applicants will be prompted
in the application form to declare if they wish to be considered under this
expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, and their response would be visible to
the Shortlisting Panel.
If you have any queries about
expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please contact Rob Saunders (HR Manager -
Recruitment) in confidence via email robert.saunders1@nhs.net
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through a vocational degree in pharmacy.
- Currently Registered as a pharmacist in UK: Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Clinical specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate level training e.g. Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, RPS advanced level framework or specialist clinical modules relevant to the role.
- Currently meeting the GPhC standard for continuing professional development.
Desirable
- Accredited independent prescriber.
- Have undertaken a Health Assessment course.
- Working towards RPS Faculty membership.
- Holds or working towards formal teaching/ training on providing feedback.
- Holds or working towards a leadership or management qualification e.g. Mary Seacole programme.
Experience
Essential
- Current experience in delivering specialist clinical services to the relevant speciality or directorate.
- Experience in influencing and persuading senior clinicians in relation to optimal medicine treatment for patients.
- Experience/involvement in implementation of service improvements.
- Experience of preparing and delivering reports, audits, clinical guidelines.
- Experience in reviewing medication errors to analyse for trends or complete root cause analysis.
- Experience of successfully supervising and contributing to the training of Pharmacists and Pharmacy technicians.
- Experience in providing an on-call or resident Pharmacy service.
Desirable
- Practising Prescriber.
- Experience in training doctors and nurses.
- Experience of leading a team.
- Experience of providing specialist clinical pharmacy service to Acute or Emergency Medicine.
Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment
Essential
- As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Here you can declare if you wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme and this response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Professional knowledge acquired through a vocational degree in pharmacy.
- Currently Registered as a pharmacist in UK: Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council.
- Clinical specialist knowledge acquired through postgraduate level training e.g. Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy, RPS advanced level framework or specialist clinical modules relevant to the role.
- Currently meeting the GPhC standard for continuing professional development.
Desirable
- Accredited independent prescriber.
- Have undertaken a Health Assessment course.
- Working towards RPS Faculty membership.
- Holds or working towards formal teaching/ training on providing feedback.
- Holds or working towards a leadership or management qualification e.g. Mary Seacole programme.
Experience
Essential
- Current experience in delivering specialist clinical services to the relevant speciality or directorate.
- Experience in influencing and persuading senior clinicians in relation to optimal medicine treatment for patients.
- Experience/involvement in implementation of service improvements.
- Experience of preparing and delivering reports, audits, clinical guidelines.
- Experience in reviewing medication errors to analyse for trends or complete root cause analysis.
- Experience of successfully supervising and contributing to the training of Pharmacists and Pharmacy technicians.
- Experience in providing an on-call or resident Pharmacy service.
Desirable
- Practising Prescriber.
- Experience in training doctors and nurses.
- Experience of leading a team.
- Experience of providing specialist clinical pharmacy service to Acute or Emergency Medicine.
Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment
Essential
- As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Here you can declare if you wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme and this response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel.
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).
