Job responsibilities
KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY
Communication and Relationships
Support the provision and presentation of written and verbal reports in relation to medicines governance and assurance to all levels across Provide services
Develop, maintain and support communication with all levels of staff from a variety of organisations and agencies on complex medicines management related matters and evidence base practice issues. This may include situations in which there is a resistance to change
Motivate, persuade and negotiate with key stakeholders to implement clinical and cost effective changes in relation to prescribing and medicines optimisation, being aware that opinions may be challenged by clinicians
Provide expert clinical, therapeutic, legislative and best practice advice to all Provide services, service users and the public as necessary, in order to promote safe and effective medicines use, including clinical advice in areas where information is lacking and where medical or other opinions differs
Work collaboratively with all the local partners which include health and social care agencies, third sector and the independent organisations to ensure a unified and coordinated approach around the development of seamless pharmaceutical care for patients
Key Relationships
Internal
Head of Medicines Management
Pharmacy and Medicines Management team including Community Collaborative partners
Directors ad Divisional Leads
Health and Social Care Directorate Business Units
Contracts Management Team
External
Community Health Service Pharmacists across East of England
ICS Medicines Optimisation Teams
Specialist Pharmacy Services
Independent contractors e.g. GP Practices, community pharmacists
Third Sector Partners
Patients and Patient Groups
Mid Essex Hospital Trust
Colchester University Hospital Trust
Clinical Commissioning Groups
Healthy Living Partnership (HLP)
Essex County Council Services
Suffolk County Council
ANALYTICAL AND JUDGEMENT
Support the identification of Provide pharmaceutical and medicines management needs, through analysis and interpretation of data submitted by primary care providers, public health, directorate colleagues and other information resources, and the comparison of a range of options for delivery of effective pharmaceutical provision
Work with the Governance Lead Pharmacy and Medicines and lead on the analyses, monitoring and reporting of information from Epact data associated with non-medical prescribing, ensuring that prescribing is evidence based, within the NMP Scope of Practice and cost effective and in accordance with local formularies and guidance
PLANNING AND ORGANISATION
Coordinate the Medicines Management work programme, identifying innovation and service re-design in collaboration with affected services and other partner organisations ensuring that Provide key performance indicators are met within agreed timescales
Lead on the Medicines Optimisation and Non-Medical Prescribing to influence innovation and service redesign where applicable
PATIENT AND CLIENT CARE
Give specialised pharmaceutical advice to Provide services regarding the safe and effective evidence based use of medicines to support the provision of care to patients
Provide pharmaceutical care to patients including medicines reconciliation as required within services
Work with the Head of Medicines Management and Divisional Leads to demonstrate compliance with the Standards for Better Health relating to prescribing and medicines optimisation across services
Contribute to the development and delivery of medicines optimisation training programmes, support the medicines champions in delivering medicines optimisation training
Ensure all aspects of controls assurance relating to medicines management are met e.g. medicines procurement, handling, storage and destruction, through the development , review and promotion of medicines policies, audit and the provision of advice and training to medical, nursing and other staff as appropriate
Support Directors and Divisional Leads in the review of medicines management related complaints, incidents and near misses, including risk assessment, root cause analysis and implementation of related actions
POLICY AND SERVICE
Responsible for the interpretation of national, regional and local medicines management guidance or regulations and the development and maintenance of medicines management related policies and procedures for local implementation
Responsible for the implementation if medicines management related alerts, including patient safety alerts. This includes the establishment of any working groups to implement the action plans developed as a response to alerts
Work with the Accountable Officer to lead on the implementation and assurance around the governance framework for controlled drugs
Act as Deputy Chair for the Medicines Governance and Safety Group
Human Resources
Identify, develop and deliver training regarding policies and procedures relating to medicines and prescribing to staff and patient/service users
Liaise with other healthcare professionals to enable development and delivery of competency tools and training packages for the implementation of new and on-going roles within community care, including new prescriber roles and the use of patient group directions
Research and Development
Lead on the identification, development and implementation of medicines management related audits and data collection tools and contribute to the annual audit plan
Work with the Research Development Facilitator to identify medicines related research projects and act as lead on identified research projects
Freedom to Act
Responsible for the interpretation of national and regional medicines management guidance or regulations, the development of strategy, policies and procedures for local implementation
Lead on the implementation if the medicines management components if the National Service Framework, NICE guidance and locally develop prescribing guidelines across all relevant services
Act as a Senior Pharmacist for the development of patient group directions and develop and support the Senior Pharmacy Technician to maintain the process to manage these controlled documents
Witness the destruction of Controlled Drugs as instructed by the Accountable Officer across Provide in line with the Misuse of Drugs Regulations
Additional Duties
In addition to the above, the post holder will also be expected to perform the key activities below in line with your job role;
Complete Mandatory training in line with Provide policy and procedures
To participate in the staff appraisal process and to undertake for any staff you manage
To keep yourself updated on all matters relating to Trust policy To provide management supervision where appropriate
You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary teams in delivering services across Provide
