Advanced Pharmacist - Discharge to Assess

Job overview

The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team and will be based in the community.

The team aim to reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and prevent avoidable Emergency Department attendances by providing a holistic multidisciplinary intervention and support to help stabilise patients in their own home or usual residence.

The post holder will work as a Non-Medical Prescriber.

Main duties of the job

• To complete a full medication review on the patient’s admission to the service, reducing the likelihood and consequences of patient harm from their prescribed medication
• To ensure rationalisation of medication particularly for complex patients with polypharmacy, including rationalising medication timing to aid patient concordance for self-managed medication, and to help reduce the number of care calls required for patients with managed medication
• To complete patient-centred consultations and liaise with a prescriber, or use the skills as a pharmacist prescriber, to change medication regimes
• To educate the patient on their medicines and discuss concordance
• To liaise with the community health care teams about the patient’s needs including ongoing monitoring requirements
• To provide information and refer to other healthcare professionals and services, including community pharmacies and GPs

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification to support your application for this post. Please refer to the essential criteria in the person specification which will highlight the skills, knowledge and experience you will need to demonstrate in your application, by way of example, to give yourself the best opportunity to be shortlisted.

The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary  In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.