Highly Specialist Clinical Pharmacist - Womens Health

Job overview

Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Are you ready to lead a service, promoting a high-quality, cost-effective, safe and comprehensive pharmacy service? Then come join Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Teaching Hospitals as our Highly Specialist Pharmacist for Women’s Health.

This exciting opportunity is perfect for pharmacists wanting to further develop their leadership and operational skills, as well as honing your clinical knowledge within your speciality.

You’ll be stepping into a well-established role within the Women’s Health multidisciplinary team. You will be responsible for delivering services across our maternity and gynaecology units, and general women's health admissions. As well as supportive outpatient services and working with the assisted conception unit based at Wrightington.

The Women's Health Pharmacist will work closely with the Lead Pharmacist for Children’s Health and be supported by the Principal Pharmacist for Surgery to ensure safe and effective medicines management and optimisation, implementation of service improvements, cost improvement project management, and leadership of medicines governance aspects within the Women’s Health Service.

Ideally you are an experienced Pharmacist with a clinical diploma and non-medical prescriber qualification on appointment, however existing Band 7 staff will be considered with a view to completing these qualifications within a set time frame to develop into a Band 8a.

Main duties of the job

You will take part in consultant-led ward rounds, ensuring safe and optimal pharmaceutical care from admission to discharge. You will work directly with patients and carers to understand their needs, supporting adherence to medication regimens.

Our aim is to provide you with the skills you need to identify and reach your professional destination, whether this is as a manager, a clinical expert, or your own hybrid of both.

Away from the clinical arena, you will gain valuable managerial skills, producing and reviewing guidelines and PGDs, undertaking and presenting audits and helping to balance medicines expenditure.

You will also have the opportunity develop your skills as an educator, teaching and training other healthcare professionals from student level upwards.

This is a rapidly expanding area in the Trust, where – if you decide this is for you – the sky is the limit.

As part of the team in our busy District General Hospital, you will have the opportunity to maintain your skills in other clinical areas with occasional cover sessions and on-call, and will work closely with the Children's Health lead to ensure seamless service provision.

The post includes participation in the late duty, weekend, bank holiday and on-call (EDC) rotas.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Deliver highly specialist clinical pharmacist services to your area of responsibility within the Trust including directorate level support such as horizon scanning, cost benefit analysis, ensuring PGDs / Shared Care Protocols are appropriate and assurance reporting is provided to the Division.
• To be a non medical prescriber.
• Working in partnership with other professionals and partners, to reduce the number and severity of medicines related adverse events by identifying and implementing new systems of work.
• Thematically review existing medication practices, incident reporting and other intelligence to support safer medication practices within specialist area.
• Investigate serious errors related to the use of medicines and report findings to manager.
• Develop, implement and audit unit wide policies, procedures and guidelines related to medication prescribing, supply, administration or disposal. Publish findings and undertake pharmacy practice research.
• Ensure compliance with medicines management guidance issued by the Trust, GMMMG or national bodies.
• Ensure compliance with Medicines Law and CQC requirements
• Provide support for specialist areas, such as Women’s Health
• Provide education to medical and nursing staff in relation to women's health. This would include participating in paediatric medical staff induction on a 4 monthly basis.
• Write or update any Women Health guidelines, monographs and PGD’s when appropriate
• Participate in investigation of any Datix relating to Women’s or maternity medications. This would include taking any remedial action prompted by such investigation
• Attendance on ward during the morning ward round to answer any medication related queries, provide a clinical check of prescribed medications and facilitate prompt discharge where possible.
• Ensuring medications provided to patient are licensed preparations where possible and are appropriate in terms of, for example, formulation and excipient content
• Horizon scanning on matters paediatric. For example, new products or new guidance, for example, NICE, RCPCH, GMMMG
• Provide a point of reference for community patients. This may include ensuring up to date prescriptions for some items not available/prescribable in the community.
• Provide a point of reference for medical and nursing staff for any pharmacy queries.
• Ensure local medicines management policies adhered to. This would include monthly CD audits
• Review of ward stocks together with medicines management technicians.
• Facilitate Blueteq authorisation for high cost medications
• Senior Specialist pharmacists, provide directorate support to the Surgical Specialties.