Senior Pharmacist Prescribing Support Unit

Job description

Job responsibilities

The provision of a high-quality service, delivered in professional and courteous manner is a requirement of all staff employed by the Pharmaceutical Service.

To provide clinical support to the Prescribing Support Unit and to prescribing and dispensing organisations in primary and secondary care.

To supply prescribing data for revalidation and appraisal purposes to medical and non medical prescribers.

To support the reintroduction of an Electronic Prescribing Decision Support System, in Primary Care as a means of ensuring that high quality prescribing advice is delivered at the point of prescribing in Primary Care.

To agree the recommendations with stakeholders, to write the profile, to monitor the acceptance rate of recommendations and to make regular checks to ensure that costs quoted are correct and up to date.

To support the use of other new technology to support prescribing of for example anti-infective agents, the Prescribing List on the States internet page.

To liaise with drug companies to ensure that HSC can access all Patient Access Schemes which are available to the NHS.

To implement, record, manage and update rebate schemes.

Using the EPACT system and NHSBSA outputs, to monitor, interpret and act on all aspects of prescribing, dispensing and charging via the Pharmaceutical Benefit system.

To support the communication of decisions or recommendations of the Prescribing Panel to applicants and to the wider community.

To support a programme of regular updates for pharmacy, medical and nursing staff, including face to face events, online meetings, guidelines and prescribing bulletins.

Promoting positive and effective communication within the Pharmacy Department.

To act as the Responsible Pharmacist in accordance with General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC), legislation and departmental SOPs

Establish links with other pharmacists in order to share / learn from examples of best practice.

To adhere to and ensure that all staff follow HSC and departmental Health and Safety, COSHH guidelines and departmental procedures

Undertake any other training and duties as required.

To participate in the Saturday, pharmacy bank holiday, flexible working weekend and evening Rotas, as required to meet the needs of the service

Receive, store and supply Controlled Drugs in accordance with the Misuse of Drugs Act.

Contribute to the effectiveness of the pharmaceutical service by putting forward suggestions for innovation and development in professional, technical and managerial aspects of the work.

To participate and contribute to Patient Safety Meetings and where appropriate attend Clinical Risk Meetings.

To practice at all times in accordance with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) code of ethics.

To undertake any other duties of a similar nature when requested to by the Pharmacy Manager or their deputy.

To comply with the principles contained in the Data Protection Law 2001, concerning improper disclosure, misuse or breach of confidentiality in respect of information held on computer systems or otherwise.

CLINICAL GOVERNANCE

To report and to investigate clinical incidents involving all aspects of prescribing, dispensing and administration of medication, particularly in Primary Care and at the interface, ensuring processes are in place to develop learning from these incidents

Assist in the investigation of complaints and errors, in conjunction with the Prescribing Advisor, to resolve any issues as close to source as possible

To prepare, to interpret and to share prescribing data at island, prescribing organisation, prescriber and dispenser level.

To facilitate the undertaking of and contribute to multi-disciplinary audit.

To contribute, monitor and act on departmental and HSC Key Performance Indicators and Benchmarking.

LEADERSHIP

To collaborate on transformation of and innovation in service delivery.

To attend and advise relevant HSC committees, recommend mechanisms for internal and external audits as required providing advice to medical staff on medicines usage and expenditure.

To be a member of the HSC Prescribing and Formulary Committee.

SERVICE DEVELOPMENT

To support the development of business cases for new service developments in the pharmaceutical service and for new medicines.

To ensure the effective use of the pharmaceutical budget including salaries, equipment, travelling and training budgets.

All staff will support their managers to make efficient and effective use of resources.

All staff are responsible for identifying any actual or potential deviation from budgets and are to work with the budget holder or manager to find effective ways of handling it.

All staff must ensure they use resources in a manner consistent with organisational objectives and policies, ensuring that resources are realistic, justified and of clear benefit to the organisation

ADMINISTRATION

To ensure that all pharmacy paperwork and documentation is completed clearly and accurately and filed and archived appropriately.

To ensure that all Patient Records are maintained within the bounds of Professional standards, and Data Protection Laws.

To ensure that all monitoring and audit data is recorded and reported upon in a timely fashion and audit trails are maintained and accessible.

To ensure that all clinical incidents are reported and acted upon in a time frame as laid out in HSC Guidelines.

To ensure that all drug chart endorsements and transcriptions are done in a neat and readable manner.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Demonstrable post registration in hospital or community pharmacy.
• Evidence of own Continuing Professional Development
• Evidence of Medicines Optimisation experience.
• Experienced in Multidisciplinary Team working.
• Experiences in change management.
• Evidence of full engagement and participation in clinical governance.
• Strong influencing and communication skills to foster good working relationships with stakeholders
• Adaptable to change and ability to manage complex change issues
• Ability to understand complex issues, problem solve and propose solutions
• Ability to act on own initiative with the appropriate level of supervision
• Ability to foster good working relationships with service users
• Diplomatic and friendly

Desirable

• Management Experience
• Experience at writing business cases.
• Experience working across organisational boundaries.
• Good Networking Skills

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters Degree in pharmacy or equivalent.
• General Pharmaceutical Council Registration.
• Hold or be working towards a post-graduate diploma/masters degree or equivalent relevant to pharmacy practice.

Desirable

• MRPharmS
• Independent prescriber

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

States of Guernsey

Address

Princess Elizabeth Hospital

Le Vauquiedor

St. Martin

Guernsey

GY4 6UU

Employer's website

https://www.gov.gg/ (Opens in a new tab)