Job summary
Are you an experienced clinical pharmacist looking to advance your career through an exciting clinical leadership opportunity?
Do you like being involved in new and innovative ways of working?
Then why not come and join our award-winning acute and emergency department pharmacy team!
We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and motivated Highly Specialist Pharmacist to join our existing team of pharmacists, medicines management technicians and medicines management assistants. This is your chance to utilise and develop your clinical knowledge and prescribing skills in front line care, whilst expanding your leadership and management experience.
As the role of emergency department pharmacy teams evolve nationally, this is an exciting time to be involved with the ongoing development of our service and exploring new ways of working. The post holder will provide clinical pharmacy and prescribing services to facilitate safe admission and discharge to acute and emergency medicine, with directorate and governance responsibilities aligned to acute medicine and ED.
The Pharmacy department at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals Trust (LTHTr) is an innovative and welcoming place to work, with a strong commitment to continuous improvement. We also recognise that the health and wellbeing of our workforce is really important, and we are fully committed to providing flexible working opportunities to enable our staff to balance work and life commitments.
Main duties of the job
You will provide prescribing and clinical pharmacy services to the acute and emergency medicine departments, including discharge prescribing, medicines reconciliation, clinical validation, clinical pharmaceutical advice and medicine supply.
Additionally, you will work with the directorate and governance teams to review themes in the safe management of medicines, drug expenditure and staffing for the speciality areas. This includes working with the directorate(s) to develop policy/guidelines, promote and deliver education and training, and utilise continuous improvement methodology to drive service change.
Within the pharmacy department the post-holder will use their leadership skills to represent the acute and emergency specialities. In addition, they will be involved in the line management of band 6 & 7 pharmacists, staff development, education and training, responsible pharmacist cover and local service developments.
About us
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You'll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you'd never have done. You'll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You'll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The pharmacy department at Lancashire teaching hospital employs over 200 staff. A licensed manufacturing unit, stores and distribution with wholesale dealer's license, growing clinical trials activity and a proactive medicines management team supporting medical education make it an exciting and diverse department. The clinical pharmacy team provide the service to the wards including tertiary specialties: renal medicine, oncology, plastics, vascular, major trauma, neurology and neurosurgery. Electronic prescribing is now live in over 90% of the hospital. Out patient services are delivered by a wholly independent subsidiary.
Duties include but are not limited to:
- Undertake all independent prescribing duties in line with the Trust Non-Medical Prescribing Policy
- Work closely with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff to identify patients who are planned for discharge and generate the medication aspect of the discharge prescription to support timely discharge. This must include ensuring all medicines prescribed are safe and appropriate, with an accurate record of medicines started, stopped and changed during admission.
- Work with the Prescribing Pharmacist Team to develop Key Performance Indicators relating to the Pharmacist independent prescribing of discharges, and devise and implement a system to monitor and improve performance
- Work closely with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff to identify new patient admissions and ensure the safe and timely generation of an in-patient prescription kardex that accurately reflects the medicines the patients were taking prior to admission, accounting for current clinical needs and reasons for admission (including ADRs).
- Work with the Prescribing Pharmacist Team to identify opportunities to expand the role of the independent prescribing pharmacist to enhance the patient experience, and develop business cases to support this. Provide an advanced level clinical pharmacy service to a designated group of wards in accordance with professional, departmental and Trust policies
- Provide advanced level pharmaceutical information to staff and patients in the Trusts
- Monitor monthly drug expenditure in a clinical directorate, identify and implement actions to support adherence to budget. This will include promoting adherence to the Trust prescribing formulary, guidelines and policies to ensure cost effective prescribing, and horizon scanning to identify new pressures or opportunities.
- Investigate medicines related incident reports or complaints in the named speciality and input in to Root Cause Analysis investigations, identifying and implementing measures to minimise future risk
Job description
Job responsibilities
The pharmacy department at Lancashire teaching hospital employs over 200 staff. A licensed manufacturing unit, stores and distribution with wholesale dealer's license, growing clinical trials activity and a proactive medicines management team supporting medical education make it an exciting and diverse department. The clinical pharmacy team provide the service to the wards including tertiary specialties: renal medicine, oncology, plastics, vascular, major trauma, neurology and neurosurgery. Electronic prescribing is now live in over 90% of the hospital. Out patient services are delivered by a wholly independent subsidiary.
Duties include but are not limited to:
- Undertake all independent prescribing duties in line with the Trust Non-Medical Prescribing Policy
- Work closely with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff to identify patients who are planned for discharge and generate the medication aspect of the discharge prescription to support timely discharge. This must include ensuring all medicines prescribed are safe and appropriate, with an accurate record of medicines started, stopped and changed during admission.
- Work with the Prescribing Pharmacist Team to develop Key Performance Indicators relating to the Pharmacist independent prescribing of discharges, and devise and implement a system to monitor and improve performance
- Work closely with medical, nursing and pharmacy staff to identify new patient admissions and ensure the safe and timely generation of an in-patient prescription kardex that accurately reflects the medicines the patients were taking prior to admission, accounting for current clinical needs and reasons for admission (including ADRs).
- Work with the Prescribing Pharmacist Team to identify opportunities to expand the role of the independent prescribing pharmacist to enhance the patient experience, and develop business cases to support this. Provide an advanced level clinical pharmacy service to a designated group of wards in accordance with professional, departmental and Trust policies
- Provide advanced level pharmaceutical information to staff and patients in the Trusts
- Monitor monthly drug expenditure in a clinical directorate, identify and implement actions to support adherence to budget. This will include promoting adherence to the Trust prescribing formulary, guidelines and policies to ensure cost effective prescribing, and horizon scanning to identify new pressures or opportunities.
- Investigate medicines related incident reports or complaints in the named speciality and input in to Root Cause Analysis investigations, identifying and implementing measures to minimise future risk
Person Specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential
- MPharm or equivalent
- Registration with the GPhC
- Post graduate clinical qualification
- Qualified Prescribing Pharmacist or clearly demonstrated commitment to becomming a prescriber
Desirable
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Substantial post registration hospital experience with experience in a senior clinical pharmacist role
- Experience of working in acute medicine and/or emergency departments
- Delivery of clinical pharmacy services to a broad range of specialities
- Evidence of significant, relevant and ongoing CPD
- Service/personnel management and supervision
- Experience of training others
- Experience of audit and research
Desirable
- Acute Trust/tertiary referral centre experience
- Experience of project management
- Formulary management
- Proven ability at data collection and processing
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Good command of the English language
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines
- Proven ability to manage change, including influencing and motivating other grades of staff and professionals
- Proven ability to work under pressure and priortise tasks appropriately
- Proven ability to work alone and as part of the team
- Good computer literacy
- Inquisitive mind-set
Desirable
- Teaching/mentoring skills
- Ability to develop services to a designated area
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Cheerful and enthusiastic
- Caring and compassionate
- Motivated
Person Specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential
- MPharm or equivalent
- Registration with the GPhC
- Post graduate clinical qualification
- Qualified Prescribing Pharmacist or clearly demonstrated commitment to becomming a prescriber
Desirable
Knowledge and Experience
Essential
- Substantial post registration hospital experience with experience in a senior clinical pharmacist role
- Experience of working in acute medicine and/or emergency departments
- Delivery of clinical pharmacy services to a broad range of specialities
- Evidence of significant, relevant and ongoing CPD
- Service/personnel management and supervision
- Experience of training others
- Experience of audit and research
Desirable
- Acute Trust/tertiary referral centre experience
- Experience of project management
- Formulary management
- Proven ability at data collection and processing
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Good command of the English language
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines
- Proven ability to manage change, including influencing and motivating other grades of staff and professionals
- Proven ability to work under pressure and priortise tasks appropriately
- Proven ability to work alone and as part of the team
- Good computer literacy
- Inquisitive mind-set
Desirable
- Teaching/mentoring skills
- Ability to develop services to a designated area
Values and Behaviours
Essential
- Cheerful and enthusiastic
- Caring and compassionate
- Motivated
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.
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).
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.
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).
