Job summary
This would be a fantastic opportunity for an experienced clinical pharmacist wanting to make a positive difference to patient care by delivering medicines optimisation to older people in the community.
You will be sharing the Medicines Management leadership of the Urgent Community Response, and Short-term Bedded Units small community pharmacy teams in Brighton and Hove.
Urgent Community Response team is a short-term service offering patients in crisis the opportunity of having care and support at home with the aim of either preventing avoidable admissions into hospital, or supporting early discharge out of hospital. This role will be dynamic and innovative, working within the wider team to deliver a pharmacy service to our patients. The role will involve a mixture of office work and patient home visits.
This post will be based at Brighton General Hospital and will involve travel mainly around Brighton and Hove. This will require you to have access to your own mode of transport vehicle (e.g. car).
Working hours are Monday to Friday, there are currently no weekend, on-call or bank holiday working commitments.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide highly specialised pharmaceutical input into Urgent Community Response Team and short-term adult bedded units within Brighton and Hove multidisciplinary teams.
As a core member of the multidisciplinary team, you will visit adults with multiple complex long-term conditions, mainly in their own homes, and Short-term Council Bedded Units to provide patient-centred structured medication reviews (SMR) and make recommendations to improve patient outcomes focusing on quality and safety, ensuring that each patient receives the drug therapy that is correct, optimised, safe and effective for their particular situation.
You will be liaising with primary care GPs, pharmacists, community pharmacies, and other healthcare professionals involved in patient care to implement medicines interventions with the aim to prevent hospital admissions.
Liaising across different healthcare settings will be paramount to ensure effective patient transfer of care across the interface. As part of your lead role, you will identify problems that can arise for patients at interfaces and develop safe systems to resolve these.
It will be part of your role to ensure that there are safe and effective systems in place for the management of medicines through the development and implementation of procedures, training, audits, and control assurance.
The post-holder should have previous clinical pharmacist experience. Independent prescribing qualification would be desirable.
About us
Why work for us?
- We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services working in supportive team environments, including medical, clinical, support and corporate services
- Positive 2022 NHS Staff Survey results with compassionate culture and leadership, and support for staff wellbeing, scoring highly.
- A variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county.
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options.
- Excellent training and development opportunities tailored to individuals.
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective and convenient workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- We are proud to be a Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces.
- We are proud to be a Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast.
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main responsibilities are to:
- Develop and provide specialist pharmacy services to Urgent Community Response and Council Adult Bedded Units in Brighton and Hove
- Provide medicine information support to other healthcare professionals within the multidisciplinary team.
- Visit patients to provide patient-centred medication reviews and optimisation according to patient needs and wishes.
- Advise on the safe management (storage, handling, administration and disposal) of medicines . This may involve development of and/or commenting on standard operating procedures (SOPs) and to participate in risk assessment of medicines.
- Support with the supply and administration of medicines, assessing individual patients to determine their needs, and providing patient centred pharmaceutical care to patients at their own homes.
- Provide medicines management training to members of Urgent Community Response and Brighton and Hove City Council Bedded units, and other healthcare staff as applicable.
- Plan and develop audits as part of the quality improvement processes.
- Monitor pharmacy team performance and produce annual reports.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The main responsibilities are to:
- Develop and provide specialist pharmacy services to Urgent Community Response and Council Adult Bedded Units in Brighton and Hove
- Provide medicine information support to other healthcare professionals within the multidisciplinary team.
- Visit patients to provide patient-centred medication reviews and optimisation according to patient needs and wishes.
- Advise on the safe management (storage, handling, administration and disposal) of medicines . This may involve development of and/or commenting on standard operating procedures (SOPs) and to participate in risk assessment of medicines.
- Support with the supply and administration of medicines, assessing individual patients to determine their needs, and providing patient centred pharmaceutical care to patients at their own homes.
- Provide medicines management training to members of Urgent Community Response and Brighton and Hove City Council Bedded units, and other healthcare staff as applicable.
- Plan and develop audits as part of the quality improvement processes.
- Monitor pharmacy team performance and produce annual reports.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Broad specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge
- Developing and undertaking clinical and non-clinical audits.
- Ability to demonstrate evidence of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
- Involved in identifying and assessing risk to improve patient safety.
- Developing and delivering medicines management training to other healthcare professionals.
Desirable
- Experience of working with older people with complex health needs as a clinical pharmacist
- Management / supervision of pharmacy staff.
skills and knowledge
Essential
- Ability to assimilate, analyse and interpret complex data.
- Ability to develop effective working relationships at all levels.
- Ability to work under pressure and be able to make important decisions in pressured situations.
- Good time management skills, with ability to prioritise and manage workload.
Other
Essential
- Ability to work on multi-sites and to travel between multi-sites using own mode of transport vehicle
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with GPhC
- At least 5 years relevant post-registration experience
- Specialist knowledge acquired through a post graduate diploma course in Clinical Pharmacy or similar or alternatively acquired through relevant and equivalent experience
Desirable
- Registered to be an independent prescriber with the GPhC
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Broad specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge
- Developing and undertaking clinical and non-clinical audits.
- Ability to demonstrate evidence of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
- Involved in identifying and assessing risk to improve patient safety.
- Developing and delivering medicines management training to other healthcare professionals.
Desirable
- Experience of working with older people with complex health needs as a clinical pharmacist
- Management / supervision of pharmacy staff.
skills and knowledge
Essential
- Ability to assimilate, analyse and interpret complex data.
- Ability to develop effective working relationships at all levels.
- Ability to work under pressure and be able to make important decisions in pressured situations.
- Good time management skills, with ability to prioritise and manage workload.
Other
Essential
- Ability to work on multi-sites and to travel between multi-sites using own mode of transport vehicle
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered with GPhC
- At least 5 years relevant post-registration experience
- Specialist knowledge acquired through a post graduate diploma course in Clinical Pharmacy or similar or alternatively acquired through relevant and equivalent experience
Desirable
- Registered to be an independent prescriber with the GPhC
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
