Specialist Pharmacist – Medicines Management

Job overview

The Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital is a modern forward thinking teaching hospital offering acute care to a population of over 1 million. Electronic prescribing and medicines administration has been implemented across all inpatient wards, the Emergency Department and most recently as part of our response to COVID-19, for Outpatients.  We have strong links with both the School of Pharmacy and the Medical School at the nearby University of East Anglia, with onsite teacher practitioner posts. The Trust has a clear commitment to patient centered care through investment in its services and staff. The Pharmacy Department is at the forefront of healthcare delivery with a strong focus on Medicines Management and innovative pharmaceutical practice.  It is challenging the current professional roles resulting in a number of innovative new pharmacy led developments and new posts, including pharmacists working within pre-op assessment and out-patient clinics and in our ED and admissions units.

Norwich itself is a vibrant city, with excellent shopping, restaurants and nightlife, yet surrounded by beautiful countryside. The unique combination of the Norfolk Broads, picturesque coastline and a choice of city or rural living make Norwich an ideal home.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist to join our team and contribute to our clinical ward services and medicines safety / medicines management agendas.

The post holder will be required to help further develop and assist in the operation of the medicines safety /management agenda both within the pharmacy department and across the Trust.  They will be involved in policy writing, undertaking and initiating audit and taking an active role in training and development of pharmacy staff and other healthcare professional groups with respect to medicines management.  They will also develop and operate high quality clinical pharmacy services as part of one of our clinical pharmacy teams.

To support 7 day working all staff are required to work 1 in 10 weekends with corresponding time off given during the week. All staff are required to undertake at least one bank holiday duty per year.

There may be a requirement to participate in the on-call pharmacy service.

All rotas are subject to review at any time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The following skills and experience will be required and are essential for the successful candidates:

• To participate in and assist in the provision of clinical pharmacy services to the Trust in liaison with the Clinical Pharmacy Team Leaders
• To act as a specialist pharmacist providing an advanced level clinical pharmacy service to a specified clinical specialty which involves a more complex/high risk patient population to optimising patient care with respect to medicines for patients in liaison with health care professionals, including medical and nursing staff
• To initiative and actively implement service developments in a clinical specialty including pharmacy led service developments, i.e. one stoop dispensing, patient self-administration schemes and use of patient’s own drugs
• To develop a highly specialist knowledge of the clinical specialty and treatment of co-morbidities to promote and support evidence based medicine within clinical speciality and across the Trust to fulfil the role as a pharmaceutical lead in the specified clinical area
• To actively participate in medical ward rounds, MDT meetings etc. in the defined clinical speciality
• To actively prescribe discharge medication according to Trust protocol in order to ensure delays in discharge do not occur

Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.