Senior Pharmacist Medicines Information/ Clinical services

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Medicines Information

Provide evaluated medicines information and advice from a variety of sources including clinical trials and published literature to pharmacy, medical and nursing staff, allied healthcare professionals and members of the public (via the medicines helpline) at all levels to promote the safe, effective, evidence-based and economic use of medicines thus optimising individual patient therapy.

Assist in the production of proactive medicines information aimed at improving prescribing and practice, and therefore patient care both in and outside the pharmacy, through personal communication, memos and bulletins.

In conjunction with the Lead pharmacists, Medicines Information, ensure that all standard operating procedures relating to the provision of medicines information are in place and current and all resources are up to date.

Support the training and development of junior medicines information staff and Lead Technician, Medicines Information and be actively involved in checking and reviewing their enquiries where necessary.

Contribute to a peer review system and assist with the audit of enquiries in accordance with clinical governance requirements.

To support and if necessary represent the Lead pharmacists, Medicines Information in all aspects pertaining to the management of the pharmacy department's Medicines Information service.

As part of the Medicines Information team, ensure that drug recalls and alerts received into the Trust are dealt with in a timely manner.

Maintain contact with appropriate specialists and groups both nationally and locally to enable best practice to be identified and incorporated into NUH practice.

To support the provision and update of monographs for the NHS Injectable Medicines guide.

Core Clinical duties (3.75-18.75 hours per week)

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 into the community.

Providing medicines for individual patients during their stay in hospital, at discharge and also for out-patient visits.

Interpreting and requesting clinical tests to monitor and make recommendations to improve effectiveness of drug therapy.

Pro-actively liaising with other members of the multidisciplinary team (medical staff, nurses, microbiologists, physiotherapists, dieticians) in order to ensure safe use of medicines.

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

Person specification

Training and qualifications

Essential criteria

• Diploma/MSc in clinical pharmacy or other appropriate qualification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Wide previous experience (post registration) in hospital pharmacy
• Knowledge of medicines information resources and systems

Communication skills

Essential criteria

• Good interpersonal, negotiating and presentation skills, both written and verbal
• Good communication skills with multidisciplinary team members and own profession

Analytical and judgement skills

Essential criteria

• Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, drug therapy decisions and patient information
• Able to analyse patient specific data to advise on therapy management

Organisational skills

Essential criteria

• Organised, able to prioritise own work and assist others to prioritise.

Physical skills

Essential criteria

• Competent ICT skills, word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, databases, retrieval of information from the internet

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.

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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

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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

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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.

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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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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

• Band 7 Medicines Information job description (PDF, 760.3KB)
• Band7MedicinesInformationClinicalPS (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)