Advanced Pharmacist – Acute Care

Job overview

You will be Advanced Pharmacist for the Acute Care wards and will support development the clinical pharmacy service to wards within acute care, including the Emergency Department, Medical and Surgical Admissions Units, Short Stay Unit and the Ambulatory Emergency Care Unit in line with local and national standards and policies, ensuring the safe, clinical and cost effective use of medicines and staff resources.

You will provide a highly specialised level of pharmaceutical care to patients and will support other healthcare staff in meeting risk management, financial management and clinical governance responsibilities around the use of medicines.

You will provide highly specialised advice for pharmacists and healthcare professionals, including participation in multidisciplinary and governance meetings.

You will deliver departmental training and will provide clinical supervision & mentoring for junior pharmacists, medicines management technicians.

You will contribute to the quality training experience and support for trainee pharmacists, pharmacy students and trainees in the multi-disciplinary team.

The post-holder will carry out clinical pharmacy audit and practice research supported by the Lead pharmacist – medicine.

Main duties of the job

Lead and coordinate the clinical pharmacy service in Acute Care areas, by providing a highly specialised level of pharmaceutical care. This will include visiting wards, speaking to individual patients to discuss all aspects of their medicines, ensuring that prescriptions are appropriate and safe, arranging supply, and when necessary, liaising with other healthcare professionals with regard to all aspects of that patients prescription and pharmaceutical care.

Practise as a highly specialised clinical pharmacist within local and national policies and standards to deliver medicines optimisation to individual patient's out a daily ward round to clinically review individual patients’ treatment and to determine the most appropriate choice of medication in response to complex series of data relating to their condition, their response to treatment and reduction of avoidable adverse events.

Work with medical, nursing and the site management team to facilitate patient discharges in order to maximise patient flow.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about this role, please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification