Specialist Pharmacist Acute and Emergency Medicine

Job overview

Are you a driven clinical pharmacist looking to advance your clinical knowledge and skills in a dynamic and high profile clinical area? Would you like to make the most effective use of your clinical skills with supervision and training from our team of Advanced Specialist Pharmacists? Does being involved in new and innovative ways of working excite you and would you like the opportunity to develop management and leadership skills within a  supportive pharmacy department?

If the answer is 'yes' then we have the opportunities for you. We provide local services to the Preston and Chorley areas and specialist services to Lancashire and South Cumbria. These include: Tertiary specialties: Renal, Oncology and Neurosciences. High risk areas: Neonatal, Critical Care, Respiratory Medicine, TPN. High turnover: Medical and Surgical admissions, Obstetrics and Paediatrics

Main duties of the job

Working directly with a team of Advanced Specialist Pharmacists, Clinical Pharmacists, Clinical Pharmacy Technicians, Medicines Management Technicians and Medicines Management Assistants, this is your chance to advance your clinical knowledge in front line care, whilst gaining leadership and management experience.

The post-holder will work within the ward-based pharmacy team to provide clinical pharmacy services to  Acute and Emergency Medicine to support medicines safety and patient flow. Working closely with other healthcare professionals you will be an integral part of the multidisciplinary team, providing the ward based clinical pharmacy service to  patients with varied clinical presentations and often with a pharmaceutically complex nature.

You will have completed or have started a Clinical Diploma with a minimum of  1 year completed and 24 months experience in hospital pharmacy. All our specialist pharmacists are given the opportunity to complete their NMP qualification.

Our pharmacy department is progressive, motivated and welcoming. There is an on-call requirement (remunerated per session), weekend and Bank Holiday work, including participation in a weekend rota.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career as a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The pharmacy department at Lancashire teaching hospital employs over 200 staff. A licensed manufacturing unit, stores and distribution with wholesale dealer's license, growing clinical trials activity and a proactive medicines management team supporting medical education make it an exciting and diverse department. The clinical pharmacy team provide the service to the wards including tertiary specialties: renal medicine, oncology, plastics, vascular, major trauma, neurology and neurosurgery. Electronic  prescribing  is now live in over 90% of the hospital. Out patient services are delivered by a wholly independent subsidiary.

Duties to include, but not be limited to:

• Communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals, members of the pharmacy team and patients regarding the provision of medicines. This will include where necessary the legislation and safety of medicinal products, reporting of clinical incidents
• Provide advice to medical, nursing and other health care professionals on the actions and uses of drugs and their safe and effective use. This will include patients with complex pharmaceutical needs.
• Provide advice to patients and carers to enhance their understanding of their medicines and promote adherence.
• Undertake the line management duties to support the development of more junior staff. Appraising staff as per Trust policy which will involve identifying training and development needs.
• Take responsibility for personal Continuing Professional Development in line with department and professional guidance. This includes undertaking all mandatory training required for the role.
• Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation clinical pharmacy services for patients admitted to own area of responsibility, and identify how these services can be improved. Develop guidelines for use in Pharmacy and the speciality to support this.
• Support the implementation of local and national medicines-related guidance, including National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines and National Service Frameworks, within the speciality to ensure evidence-based medicine is practised.

All our band 7 pharmacists are given the opportunity to undertake the trust core management skills and develop as both a leader and line manager.