Job summary
This role will suit a pharmacist who is willing to grow and
develop. A person who is passionate about putting the patient at the centre and
empowering them to get the best out of their medicines. It is about truly
multidiscipinary work and patient safety.
There will be the opportunity to work with our colleagues in
the acute hospital to broaden your experience.
You will gain experience in working with specialist
palliative care and rehabilitation patients and be involved in redesigning
services in the community.
Main duties of the job
We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and proactive registered pharmacist to join our team delivering innovative pharmacy services to the community.
No two days will be the same; you will have patient contact; you will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team; you will problem solve, and you will have the opportunity to shape the pharmacy service you deliver.
Prospective candidates should be efficient, enthusiastic, and confident to work autonomously within a supportive team and their sphere of competence. They should have excellent communication skills as the job will involve liaising with social care, clinical and community teams as well as patients and their carers.
You will have a desire to improve patient outcomes; an aspiration to participate in research and the will to learn and develop together with the opportunity to influence the future of pharmacy services.
You will have a Master's in Pharmacy, or equivalent, independent non-medical prescribing qualification and clinical diploma. You will also be registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
If you are not already an independent pharmacist prescriber and do not have a postgraduate clinical diploma, you must be willing to gain these qualifications and will be supported to do so. You will be offered a band 6 post and progress to band 7 following satisfactory completion of the qualifications and performance review.
About us
ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.
We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website at www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned Organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.
At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.
We encourage you to apply as early as possible as this job may close earlier than the advertised closing date once enough applications have been received.
The pharmacy and medicines optimisation team works with all the teams in ECCH. Our mission is to keep patients', staff and the organisation safe and legal with respect to medicines. We believe strongly in empowering patients to become remain or become independent with their medicines.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To develop and provide a high-quality
Clinical Pharmacy Service to ECCH in-patient unit and Primary Care Home Teams
(PCH) including individual patient medicines review, counselling, medicines
reconciliation and full clinical screening of prescriptions to ensure safe and
cost effective use of evidence based and rational use of medicines, in line
with local policies and national guidance ensuring medicines are optimised and
risks to patients are minimised
To provide professional expertise in
relation to drugs or medicines to ward staff, PCH staff, patients and carers
and others including medical practitioners.
To support and implement efficient
medicines management initiatives to ensure the safe and secure handling of
medicines; reduce drug waste and manage drug expenditure
To participate in MDTs and PCH
huddles where appropriate
To work closely with pharmacy
technicians and pharmacy support worker to enable patients in our care to be
empowered to manage their medicines.
To facilitate the medicines element
of discharge to enable safe and efficient discharges
To participate in and undertake
audits as agreed including collecting and recording data for KPIs
To support the wider pharmacy and
ECCH teams in delivering safe patient centred care through implementation of
the Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation strategy including providing professional advice; training
and education; developing and reviewing relevant policies and SOPs
To supervise less experienced
pharmacy staff.
All roles
within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our
Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to
patients, service users, stakeholders, and colleagues. All members of staff
should consider these as an essential part of their job role.
Our Values outline the core behaviours that we
can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word CARE. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.
Underpinning our Values are our Signature
Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a
strong culture. Our four Signature
Behaviours are: Compassion
- We Listen, We Learn,
We Lead| Action - My
Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect
Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To develop and provide a high-quality
Clinical Pharmacy Service to ECCH in-patient unit and Primary Care Home Teams
(PCH) including individual patient medicines review, counselling, medicines
reconciliation and full clinical screening of prescriptions to ensure safe and
cost effective use of evidence based and rational use of medicines, in line
with local policies and national guidance ensuring medicines are optimised and
risks to patients are minimised
To provide professional expertise in
relation to drugs or medicines to ward staff, PCH staff, patients and carers
and others including medical practitioners.
To support and implement efficient
medicines management initiatives to ensure the safe and secure handling of
medicines; reduce drug waste and manage drug expenditure
To participate in MDTs and PCH
huddles where appropriate
To work closely with pharmacy
technicians and pharmacy support worker to enable patients in our care to be
empowered to manage their medicines.
To facilitate the medicines element
of discharge to enable safe and efficient discharges
To participate in and undertake
audits as agreed including collecting and recording data for KPIs
To support the wider pharmacy and
ECCH teams in delivering safe patient centred care through implementation of
the Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation strategy including providing professional advice; training
and education; developing and reviewing relevant policies and SOPs
To supervise less experienced
pharmacy staff.
All roles
within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our
Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to
patients, service users, stakeholders, and colleagues. All members of staff
should consider these as an essential part of their job role.
Our Values outline the core behaviours that we
can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word CARE. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.
Underpinning our Values are our Signature
Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a
strong culture. Our four Signature
Behaviours are: Compassion
- We Listen, We Learn,
We Lead| Action - My
Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect
Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.
Person Specification
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Flexible and enthusiastic
- Self-motivated
- Ability to lead and motivate others
- Methodical
- Tactful and empathetic
- Emotionally resilient
- Able to deal with conflict e.g. negotiate with individuals who may be aggressive, emotional, disagree or challenge decisions
- Able to continually update knowledge, skills and challenge own practice
- Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours
- (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
- Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.
Desirable
- Enthusiasm for developing others
Experience
Essential
- Post-registration experience in acute hospital, community pharmacy or community health services.
- Able to analyse, interpret and evaluate specialist medicines related information or data, using clinical and professional judgement. This includes interpreting reports from any pharmacy computer system e.g. about drug usage and expenditure, clinical intervention reports, data from clinical trials and published papers, and changes in medicines legislation and policy (local and national). This information could inform decisions about an individual patients drug treatment (e.g. data from the pathology system) or protocol & guideline development
- To interpret prescriptions for drug problems such as drug dosage, drug interactions and appropriateness of therapy. Considers legality, clarity and risk associated with prescribed medicines and prescriptions and makes interventions to ensure safety and optimal therapy.
- Experience of being responsible and accountable for own professional actions, working independently within professional and organisational boundaries and being responsible for the actions of others within their area of responsibility.
Desirable
- To possess the technical knowledge and skills to make or instruct others, in the preparation of injections and intravenous infusions.
- Teaching and training experience to a range of healthcare professionals; students and undergraduates.
- Experience of working in a range of environments e.g., community; hospital; primary care.
- Experience service re-design.
- Experience in planning, developing and delivering pharmacy services.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- To communicate sensitive and complex specialist medicines related information and advice to patients & carers, medical teams, and other healthcare professionals. Types of sensitive and specialist medicines and pharmaceutical information include: choice of therapy (including formulary issues), choice of formulation and route of administration, side effects, adverse drug reactions, use of drugs where its action and effects may be influenced by patient disease state, biochemical parameters, liver and kidney function, diet, gender, ethnicity, pregnancy, breast feeding, age related problems. This could be in sensitive situations including cancer treatment, terminal illness and the effect of drug administration or prescribing errors or other drug misadventures. Discussions may be on a one to one basis with patient, doctor or other healthcare professional, or by telephone, e-mail or letter; or a one to many e.g. on medical ward rounds.
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent
- Postgraduate clinical qualification and/or significant relevant clinical experience to demonstrate similar level of knowledge
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
- Project management experience
- Coaching and mentoring experience/qualification
Person Specification
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Flexible and enthusiastic
- Self-motivated
- Ability to lead and motivate others
- Methodical
- Tactful and empathetic
- Emotionally resilient
- Able to deal with conflict e.g. negotiate with individuals who may be aggressive, emotional, disagree or challenge decisions
- Able to continually update knowledge, skills and challenge own practice
- Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours
- (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
- Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.
Desirable
- Enthusiasm for developing others
Experience
Essential
- Post-registration experience in acute hospital, community pharmacy or community health services.
- Able to analyse, interpret and evaluate specialist medicines related information or data, using clinical and professional judgement. This includes interpreting reports from any pharmacy computer system e.g. about drug usage and expenditure, clinical intervention reports, data from clinical trials and published papers, and changes in medicines legislation and policy (local and national). This information could inform decisions about an individual patients drug treatment (e.g. data from the pathology system) or protocol & guideline development
- To interpret prescriptions for drug problems such as drug dosage, drug interactions and appropriateness of therapy. Considers legality, clarity and risk associated with prescribed medicines and prescriptions and makes interventions to ensure safety and optimal therapy.
- Experience of being responsible and accountable for own professional actions, working independently within professional and organisational boundaries and being responsible for the actions of others within their area of responsibility.
Desirable
- To possess the technical knowledge and skills to make or instruct others, in the preparation of injections and intravenous infusions.
- Teaching and training experience to a range of healthcare professionals; students and undergraduates.
- Experience of working in a range of environments e.g., community; hospital; primary care.
- Experience service re-design.
- Experience in planning, developing and delivering pharmacy services.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- To communicate sensitive and complex specialist medicines related information and advice to patients & carers, medical teams, and other healthcare professionals. Types of sensitive and specialist medicines and pharmaceutical information include: choice of therapy (including formulary issues), choice of formulation and route of administration, side effects, adverse drug reactions, use of drugs where its action and effects may be influenced by patient disease state, biochemical parameters, liver and kidney function, diet, gender, ethnicity, pregnancy, breast feeding, age related problems. This could be in sensitive situations including cancer treatment, terminal illness and the effect of drug administration or prescribing errors or other drug misadventures. Discussions may be on a one to one basis with patient, doctor or other healthcare professional, or by telephone, e-mail or letter; or a one to many e.g. on medical ward rounds.
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters degree in pharmacy or equivalent
- Postgraduate clinical qualification and/or significant relevant clinical experience to demonstrate similar level of knowledge
- Registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
Desirable
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain
- Project management experience
- Coaching and mentoring experience/qualification
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
