Senior Rotational Clinical Pharmacist

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

• To act as a specialist practitioner in the clinical area.

• To promote and deliver pharmaceutical care specifically for patients within the Care Group and more generally for all patients.
• To contribute and adhere to clinical pharmacy service standards.
• To provide highly specialised evidence-based clinical advice and information to nursing and medical staff on the care and treatment of patients.
• To actively participate regularly in multidisciplinary ward rounds, antibiotic ward rounds and other multidisciplinary meetings as appropriate, delivering and promoting high quality, cost-effective,
patient-focused pharmaceutical care.
• To contribute to and participate in the clinical/ward pharmacy service.
• Where appropriate and necessary to practice as a prescriber in area of own expertise, as appropriate, and provide direct high quality of care to patients.
• To ensure appropriate and timely supply of medication to patients in conjunction with dispensary staff.
• To liaise with other pharmacists/healthcare professionals to ensure efficient transfer of clinical and medicines management issues.
• To participate in discharge planning.
• To participate in patient education and counselling schemes for all patients/carers.
• To ensure appropriate and timely supply of medication to patients, including participation in the POD scheme.
• To practice as an independent prescriber, in area of own expertise, as appropriate and provide direct high quality of care to inpatients and outpatients within scope of practice.
• To liaise with other Pharmacists, Doctors and GPs to ensure efficient transfer of clinical and medicines management issues.
• To participate in Trust adverse incident reporting scheme.

Financial Management
• To support the Principal Pharmacist in monitoring drug expenditure within the Care Group and provide accurate expenditure information, with appropriate analysis, to the Clinical Director and General manager.
• To identify areas of potential cost-savings within the Care Group, and to implement systems to realise savings and contain prescribing costs.
• Using horizon scanning techniques identify future high cost medications.
• To support the development and implementation of policies to control drug expenditure and ensure cost-effective prescribing.
• To educate other healthcare professionals on the costs associated with drug therapy and promote evidence-based, cost-effective prescribing within the care group.
• To attend Care Group or Specialty financial meetings when required.
• To work across traditional boundaries e.g. primary and secondary care.
• To optimise the use of homecare providers to ensure VAT savings are realised as necessary.

People Management and Performance
• To lead, coach and manage the performance of junior staff in line with good people management practices, ensuring excellence is recognised and underperformance is addressed.
• To participate in regular performance appraisal meetings and ensure line reports have a clear set of objectives and development plans.
• Ensure direct reports are compliant with all statutory, mandatory training together with any professional training requirements.
• Manage absences of direct reports including sickness in line with Trust policy ensuring the appropriate return to work meetings occur, e-roster is updated and productivity is at keep to the highest possible level.
• Support with the recruitment of the team in line with the Trust's recruitment policy and process.
• Identify talent and support the internal talent management process in order attract and retain and succession plan for your people.
• Ensure overall wellbeing of the team is maintained. Continuously support in improving the morale of the team and implementing a culture of zero-tolerance for bullying and harassment.
• To participate in teaching and supervising students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
• To act as postgraduate tutor for Diploma students.
• To act as a tutor for trainee pharmacists.
• To participate in teaching nurses, medical staff, and AHPs.
• To participate in the recruitment and selection of pharmacy students, trainee pharmacists, and junior pharmacists as needed.
• To regularly train, supervise and assess at ward level junior pharmacy staff providing a ward/clinical pharmacy service to wards within the Care Group.
• To supervise, train and assess at ward level, pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, trainee pharmacists and students.
• To participate in the in-service clinical pharmacy training of all pharmacy staff.
• To undertake CPD to ensure that knowledge is continually updated.
• To participate regularly in the induction, training and development of medical, nursing and other healthcare staff.

Research and Service Development
• To regularly lead, participate in and co-ordinate relevant research or audit projects.
• To participate in audit and practice research to investigate and where appropriate improve the quality of service.
• To publish and present the results and outcomes of own research and audits locally, nationally or internationally as appropriate.
• To liaise with clinical trial nursing and pharmacy staff with regards to monitoring and continuing supply of trial medicines to patients.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Pharmacist (1 year competency assessed and examined professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council)

Desirable criteria

• Postgraduate Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent qualification / experience

Experience

Essential criteria

• Specialist clinical knowledge and skills relevant to area of practice

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

• Job Description and Person Specification (PDF, 344.4KB)
• PRUH Pharmacy Candidate Brochure (PDF, 960.2KB)
• Princess Royal (PRUH) Site map (PDF, 1.4MB)
• PRUH Candidate Brochure (PDF, 2.0MB)