Clinical Pharmacist Band 6/7

Job overview

STEP Clinical Pharmacist B6/7 cross site working (Stafford/Stoke)

Newly qualified pharmacists will also be considered and appointed at B6 with progression to a B7 upon completion of a development plan

• The post holder will provide clinical service to a range of patient services including wards, out-patient clinics, homecare, clinical trials, Day Case Unit and Mental Health Services.
• The post holder will be required to communicate complex medicines related information to prescribers, service users and carers taking account of barriers of understanding.
• The post holder will require skills for analysing and interpreting medicines information based on specialist knowledge and understanding.
• The post holder will plan and organise their own workload including the delivery of training sessions, completion of audits and project work activities.
• The post holder will provide specialist advice concerning patient care.
• The post holder will be involved in proposing policy and service changes that impact beyond their area.
• The post holder will have responsibility for promoting safe and secure handling, storage, and reconciliation of medicines within their areas and responsibility for promoting cost effective practice concerning medicines across the Trust.
• The post holder will be responsible for training and educating staff, service users and carers.
• The post holder will have involvement in both maintaining and retrieving data from information systems and producing reports.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a specialist Clinical Pharmacy service to clinical teams as part of the multidisciplinary approach.
• To provide patient and carer information on medication taking and identifying the wider services to support them.
• To take responsibility for delivering against agreed performance indicators for Clinical Pharmacy. Provision includes clinical intervention, monitoring, antimicrobial stewardship, clinical audit, and provision of summary reports.
• To ensure safe, cost-effective use of medicines for inpatients, outpatients, and day patients.
• Undertake service evaluation to optimise the use of medicines.
• To supervise dispensary activities professionally, efficiently, and accurately ensuring the dispensing of appropriate medicines.
• Support the introduction of a rotational programme of pharmacists across the Trust.
• To deputise for the Advanced Clinical Pharmacist as needed for range of duties including homecare and mental health services.
• The post holder will take part in the Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Service advisory on-call rota on a pro rata basis.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Adhere to Trust incident reporting procedures.
• Work as part of the multi-disciplinary team in clinical areas to provide specialist clinical pharmacy information in relation to safe use of medicines.
• Develop positive working relationships of the multi-disciplinary team and staff contracted through pharmacy service level agreements.
• Promote best practice in physical assessment of service users on admission to hospital associated with the safe use of medicines.
• Audit practice to ensure that physical health and mental health assessment information is available and used as part of medicines reviews.
• Audit practice to ensure that service users are informed about unlicensed/off label and high dose prescribing when it occurs.
• Design, planning, implementation, collation, reporting, analysis, presentation, action planning of medicines audits to address locally determined medicines issues and national audits.
• Support the training and education of junior staff members and undergraduates undertaking a placement or involved in research/ evaluation.
• To participate in the pharmacy service out of hours provision.

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.