Macmillan Senior Palliative Care Pharmacist
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will:
• Work closely with medical and nursing staff to improve the pharmaceutical care of patients requiring palliative care and end of life services.
• Work with and support the Myton Hospice Palliative care pharmacist based at UHCW.
• Support the Pharmacy team to improve knowledge of palliative care as a speciality and review patients referred to the Palliative Care team at UHCW.
• Be responsible for all aspects of Medicines Management within palliative care and end of life services at UHCW NHS Trust and have an overarching medicines management role within palliative care across Coventry and Warwickshire.
• Lead on the provision of education to healthcare professionals in the pharmaceutical aspects of palliative care and end of life services across the above care settings.
• Develop policies, guidelines, conduct audits and perform research relating to the use of medicines within palliative care and end of life services.
• Support the Quality, Innovation and Patient Safety aspects of Palliative Care at UHCW to ensure care is outstanding and continually improving.
Role-specific duties
1. Provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service for palliative care patients at UHCW NHS Trust, attending board rounds and multidisciplinary team meetings.
2. Support a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service for palliative and end of life care patients across Coventry and Warwickshire by acting as pharmacist representative on the C.A.S.T.L.E. (Care and Support Towards Life's End) expert advisory group which represents clinical providers of palliative and end of life care across Coventry and Warwickshire.
3. Provide pharmacy representation and input into other relevant groups such as the ICS EOL working group, the West Midlands Specialist Palliative Care Audit and Guidelines Group (SPAGG) and the Central England Palliative Care Pharmacy Group.
4. Provide strategic guidance on clinical pharmacy issues relating to palliative and end of life care services and provide professional pharmacy leadership in this area of care
5. Proactively influence safe and cost-effective drug therapy with other senior clinical staff within palliative care and end of life services. This will include performing new drug evaluations, financial reporting and development of policies.
6. Identify areas where improvements in both quality and cost effectiveness of pharmaceutical care and prescribing may be encouraged, and influence others to incorporate this for the benefit of the wider health economy.
7. Work with senior staff in palliative and end of life care services to review policies and procedures to ensure safe and effective handling of medication. Ensure policies and procedures comply with existing legal requirements, best practice, national and local guidelines and CQC Requirements. Undertake risk management and conduct audits relating to supply, storage and administration of medicines.
8. Lead, develop and deliver education and training in the pharmaceutical aspects of palliative care to other healthcare professionals. To encourage and cultivate an environment of clinical and practice-based research and audit. To contribute to current and future research and audit projects associated with the use of medicines within palliative care.
9. To practice as an expert practitioner, providing advice and consultancy to patients, healthcare professionals and other agencies relating to pharmaceutical aspects of palliative and end of life care.
Please see the Job Description for the full details.
Person specification
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Knowledge
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To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust's Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust's Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.
In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.
UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.
If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we'll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.
We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.
Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.
All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders
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Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
- 8a palliative care specialist pharmacist JD PS (PDF, 584.3KB)
- Macmillan Senior Palliative Care Pharmacist advert (PDF, 48.7KB)
- Candidate Information (PDF, 372.8KB)
- Welcoming applicant with Disability (PDF, 52.8KB)
- How to complete an application form & Values Fact Sheet (DOCX, 874.6KB)
- Welcoming Applicants with a Disability (PDF, 53.2KB)