Specialist Pharmacist

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Is it time to take your clinical pharmacy skills to the next level? We have the opportunities for you! We provide local services to the Preston and Chorley areas and specialist services to Lancashire and South Cumbria. These include: Tertiary specialties: Renal, Oncology and Neurosciences. High risk areas: Neonatal, Critical Care, Respiratory Medicine, TPN. High turnover: Medical and Surgical admissions, Obstetrics and Paediatrics.

Each rotation is designed to allow you to utilise your skills as a fully independent practitioner but also develop them for your specialist area under the supervision of one of our experienced senior leads. At ward level you will be supported by a medicines management technician and medicines management assistant allowing you to focus your energy on optimising the patient's medicines throughout their stay.

Main duties of the job

Working closely with other healthcare professionals you will be an integral part of a multidisciplinary team providing the ward based clinical pharmacy service to patients of a pharmaceutically complex nature.

You will have completed or have started a Clinical Diploma with a minimum of 1 year completed and 24 months experience in hospital pharmacy. All our specialist pharmacists are given the opportunity to complete their NMP qualification.

Our pharmacy department is progressive, motivated and welcoming. There is an on-call requirement (remunerated per session), weekend and Bank Holiday work, including participation in a weekend rota.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career as a specialist clinical pharmacist.

Detailed job description and main 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.

Duties to include, but not be limited to:

• Communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals, members of the pharmacy team and patients regarding the provision of medicines. This will include where necessary the legislation and safety of medicinal products, reporting of clinical incidents.
• Provide advice to medical, nursing and other health care professionals on the actions and uses of drugs and their safe and effective use. This will include patients with complex pharmaceutical needs.
• Provide advice to patients and carers to enhance their understanding of their medicines and promote adherence.
• Undertake the line management duties to support the development of more junior staff. Appraising staff as per Trust policy which will involve identifying training and development needs.
• Take responsibility for personal Continuing Professional Development in line with department and professional guidance. This includes undertaking all mandatory training required for the role.
• Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation clinical pharmacy services for patients admitted to own area of responsibility, and identify how these services can be improved. Develop guidelines for use in Pharmacy and the speciality to support this.
• Support the implementation of local and national medicines-related guidance, including National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines and National Service Frameworks, within the speciality to ensure evidence-based medicine is practised.

Person specification Qualifications and Education

• MPharm or equivalent
• Registration with the General pharmaceutical council
• Post graduate Clinical Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society membership.

Knowledge and Experience

• Computer systems
• Broad clinical pharmacy knowledge
• Fulfilment of mandatory continuous professional development
• Evidence of service development experience
• Previous hospital experience

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.