Senior Pharmacist, Critical Care
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Provide effective clinical and medicines optimisation service to patients admitted and discharged through Critical Care. This includes leading on all aspects of prescribing, administration and governance within the specified specialitie
- Liaise with Pharmacy Managers/Team Leaders, Senior Clinicians and Senior Nurse Managers in Critical Care services, to co-ordinate and ensure all services from pharmacy provide the best in seamless pharmaceutical care for these patients, innovating service change when necessary to achieve this
- Attend daily consultant-led multi-professional ward rounds to actively facilitate and provide highly complex medication review and guide doctors in appropriate therapy choice for patients and avoidance of medication errors where advice may regularly be challenged.
- Attend weekly therapy- led long term ward rounds focussing on progressive rehabilitation and multidisciplinary goal setting.
- To prescribe medicines in their capacity of an Independent Prescriber in line with current legislation, local policies and within their own level of experience and competence.
- Ensuring that wards and duties are clinically and operationally covered, while taking into account the needs of the service and the requirements of the team members allocated to
- Critical Care, Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery department, ensuring that patients are seen by the most appropriate pharmacist and that the best level of service is provided in terms available resource and capacity. This will include the preparation of rotas and responding to annual leave and sick leave.
- Being actively involved and representing pharmacy at the West Midlands Adult Critical Care Network Pharmacist Group and at national/regional multidisciplinary specialist interest groups relevant to Critical Care, e.g., UKCPA Critical Care Pharmacy Group.
- Act as the point of liaison for any service developments that involves medicines or pharmacy services in Critical Care.
- To support the development, implementation and adherence to local and national guidelines/policies to ensure cost-effective and safe prescribing within the specialities.
- To support the division in managing their drugs budget, provide information on trends in drug expenditure in relation to the drug budget. This also includes horizon scanning and supporting new drug evaluations through the Trust Drugs and Therapeutics Committee.
- To identify and manage the risks associated with medication use at UHCW NHS Trust
- Investigation of complaints and clinical incidents under the direction of the Pharmacy Governance and Safety Team and the wider multidisciplinary team. To support the investigation of medication related incidents and formulation/delivery of action plans across the Trust to address any problems identified within Critical Care.
- To act as a mentor and role model as an expert clinical pharmacist; manager and leader.
- To support and contribute to the clinical governance agenda(s) of the Critical Care.
- Support with the provision of parenteral nutrition to critical care patients when required.
- To assist the specialty in formulary related issues including the preparation of new drug request forms, for submission to the Drugs and Therapeutic Committee. To advise the pharmacy procurement lead of proposed changes in prescribing, to ensure that stock reflects usage, and that competitive purchase prices are achieved.
For further details of the role please see the attached job description.
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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.
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