Senior Pharmacist-Dermatology, Immunology, Rheumatology & Transition

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake .

To provide a specialist Pharmacy Service to the "Transfer of Care Unit" and to the specialist areas: Clinical Immunology, Rheumatology and Dermatology.

To ensure safe, rational and effective prescribing by undertaking medication reconciliation, assessing suitability of prescribed medication, enabling use of patient's own medicines and patient self-administration, counselling (to optimise medicines use), and ensuring continuity of patient care on leaving hospital.

To ensure patients receive the best pharmaceutical care throughout their stay by ensuring care plans continue to be reviewed, along with managing complex multimorbidity and potentially inappropriate polypharmacy.

To support with proactive assessment of patient adherence and ability to manage medicines prior to discharge; working with patients as partners ensuring their autonomy where possible.

To improve the quality of discharge communications between secondary and primary care (community pharmacies and general practice) and to care homes and to actively identify and/or refer patients to benefit from a targeted MUR post discharge to a community pharmacy.

With support of the Highly Specialist Pharmacists, manage on-going pharmaceutical care needs of patients being maintained on drug treatment for Rheumatological, Immunological and Dermatological conditions.

To support with the clinical screening of cDMARDs, biologics and more specialist Rheumatology infusions .

To provide support with clinical screening specialist drugs used within "Clinical Immunology and Allergy" for the management of conditions such as chronic spontaneous urticaria, hereditary angioedema, severe allergy, auto inflammatory and immunodeficiency conditions.

To support the "Clinical Immunology and Allergy" Highly Specialist Pharmacist in delivering a pharmacy service to the Drug Allergy Testing and Challenge clinics within NUH.

To support with Quality Improvement Project work focused to improve patient flow and timely discharges for "Medically Stable for Discharge" patients.

To partake in clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken in the relevant clinical specialties. This includes a prescribing role when qualified.

To make recommendations about medicines to improve patient outcomes and to encourage adherence to hospital formulary and national guidelines.

To line manage and support more junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians.

To facilitate or conduct clinical audits which are part of the pharmacy audit plan that are suitable for presentation at a local level.

To take full part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holidays duties.

We operate a 7day working model; the post-holder will contribute to the senior on-call rota providing back-up support to the on-call pharmacist. All of our dispensaries are pharmacist-free and technician led, so there are no operational commitments.

Whilst this post is commissioned to be full time (equivalent of 37.5 hours per week); the service would welcome applications from those wanting a better work life balance. If you would like to consider this post but on less than full time hours please still apply and outline this on your application form or please contact us for further discussion.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• B.Pharm / BSc (Pharmacy) or MPharm.
• GPhC registered
• Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or other appropriate post graduate qualification

Desirable criteria

• Holds a post-graduate clinical diploma
• Independent Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification

Skills & Experience

Essential criteria

• Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams
• Wide previous experience (post registration) in hospital/Clinical pharmacy
• Broad knowledge base of clinical areas.
• Experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services in a hospital setting
• Experience of day to day supervision and assisting in training of pre registration pharmacists and/or technicians

Desirable criteria

• Experience of working within Elderly Healthcare specialities.
• Experience in undertaking, and reporting/presenting audit / research work at local (Trust) level.
• Evidence of project work completed
• Experience of developing and implementing medicines and service related policies for a specialty

PLanning and organisational

Essential criteria

• Organised, able to prioritise own work and assist others to prioritise
• Good Time management skills

Communication and relationship skills

Essential criteria

• Good communication skills with multidisciplinary team members and own profession.
• Good interpersonal, negotiating and presentation skills, both written and verbal skills.
• Empathy with patients, relatives and pharmacy customers.
• Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams

Desirable criteria

• Teaching skills

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential criteria

• Able to assess and minimise the risk in medication process
• Able to analyse patient specific data to advise on therapy management
• Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, production issues, drug therapy decisions and patient information

Desirable criteria

• Experience of analysing expenditure

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.

Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.

Easy read application: if you have a disability and find it difficult to complete our online application form, you can apply via our easy read application which you can find on the intranet https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/easy-read-job-application

NUH are now able to offer application completion support and interview preparation support. Please follow the link to book onto our sessions: Support for NUH Job Applications

If you are aged 16 or 17 and applying for a role that is more than 20 hours a week, please be aware that you will be asked to commence an Apprenticeship within the Trust alongside your role, as long as there is a suitable apprenticeship standard available. This is in line with the current guidance in England that whilst young people under the age of 18 can leave school (on the last Friday in June) they must then do one of the following:

• Stay in full-time education, for example at a college
• Start an Apprenticeship
• Spend 20 hours of more a week working or volunteering, while in part-time education or training

For more details visit; School leaving age - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.

Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.

At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are 'at risk' of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.

International Recruitment: If you are applying for a role with us from outside of the UK then please read the guidance on applying for a health or social care job in the UK from abroad.

ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate ID and right to work documentation including passports and driving licenses through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.

Consent:

• Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
• Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£42.90 for enhanced and £22.90 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month's pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges

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

• Senior Clinical Pharmacist -Dermatology, Immunology, Rheumatology & Transfer of Care Unit (PDF, 768.3KB)
• Senior Clinical Pharmacist -Dermatology, Immunology, Rheumatology & Transfer of Care Unit PS (PDF, 312.6KB)
• Mindful Employer (PDF, 242.5KB)
• Equality and Diversity (PDF, 122.3KB)
• Equal Opportunities (PDF, 57.4KB)
• Disability Confidence Scheme (PDF, 51.0KB)
• Rehabilitation of Ex Offenders (PDF, 106.0KB)