Lead Pharmacist for Renal Medicine

Job overview

Lead Pharmacist Renal Medicine

An exciting new opportunity has arisen to be the lead pharmacist for Renal medicine  at Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. This is a brand new post to focus on just Renal Medicine. You will have the opportunity to lead a group of pharmacists in providing pharmacy clinical services to Renal medicine working within a healthcare multidisciplinary team.

We are recruiting an enthusiastic, highly motivated, dynamic pharmacist. The individual will be responsible for delivering, managing, and developing a proactive, high-quality, cost-effective, safe pharmacy clinical to patients.

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Pharmacy Service aims to proactively support staff, service users and carers in achieving safe and effective medicines management, optimising the use of medicines by providing a high quality and accessible service.

We do this by providing:

• Accurate and independent information and education about medicines to other healthcare professionals, service users and carers.
• Clinical activities to facilitate the management of medicines by service users within inpatient and community teams.
• Support to ensure that medicines management resources are used cost effectively within Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and across the local health community.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to the renal ward
• Participate in renal transplant clinics ensuring patients prescriptions are processed appropriately and medicines related queries are addressed.
• Point of contact for general nephrology, low clearance, haemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis
• Undertake APKD (Tolvaptan clinic with Dr Alchi) – monthly clinic (telephone and F2F), checking APKD shared email daily, ordering and checking blood tests, issuing Tolvaptan prescriptions – Lloyds and Wexham, posting some Tolvaptan to patients)
• Write and review SOPs, PGDs and drug-related guidelines
• Liaise with NHSE and ICS to ensure NICE drugs are available. If amber, ensuring shared care in place
• Responsible for clinical screening of homecare prescriptions for general nephrology (vasculitis drug avacopan), low clearance, PD and home HD (EPO, roxadustat)
• Complete homecare applications for hospital-only drugs
• Responsible for clinical screening of renal BDU prescriptions (cyclophosphamide, rituximab, IV iron)
• Respond to queries from Out-patient Pharmacy for all renal prescriptions
• Respond to medication queries from team

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the job role, please refer to the job description and Person specification attached.

This job description is not exhaustive and will be subject to periodic review in association with the post holder.