Specialist Pharmacist - Moorfields Private

Job description

Job responsibilities

1. Undertake the duties of a dispensary pharmacist

• To dispense prescriptions with accuracy using the pharmacy computer system
• To check prescriptions dispensed by pharmacy technicians and assistants
• To liaise with prescribers when prescriptions require clarification. To provide necessary support to the prescriber in regards to any decisions on prescribing
• To issue medication to patients and carers with appropriate counselling
• To check the validity of private prescriptions, discharge documents and dose calculations and undertake risk management and ensure that a comprehensive dispensing service is provided with the restraints of the available resources and present legislation under the Medicines Act.
• To be responsible for maintaining an effective and efficient ordering and stock control system in the pharmacy
• To ensure regular stock and controlled drug checks are conducted, and ensure that the storage and record keeping requirements for controlled drugs and named patient drugs are being adhered to, ensuring compliance with appropriate medicines legislation

2. Provide information and support

• To support other pharmacy staff with advice and decision making
• To receive and document medicines related inquiries from patients and healthcare professionals and either respond to their requests, or refer to appropriate staff or medicines information department

3. Provide a clinical pharmacy service to a defined ward / group of wards

• To work in accordance with departmental policy and procedures to ensure that medicines are used in line with clinical governance principles
• To recognise and appropriately manage situations where conflict may arise from unacceptable behaviours or any other causes
• To take responsibility for providing evaluated information on medicines to patients, their carers and staff
• To record all pharmacy interventions
• To contribute to safe pharmaceutical discharge of all patients, by providing information and aids that patients may need to manage their own medication on discharge
• To review the use of medication with regard to clinical protocols and the prescribing formulary
• To support medicines optimisation initiatives if relevant to the Private Pharmacy
• Demonstrate appropriate clinical reasoning and judgement, and where applicable, specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge in core areas in order to plan, manage, monitor and review therapeutic programmes for patients allocated, thereby ensuring the quality of patient care
• Proactively provide professional and specialised evidence-based clinical advice and recommendations on all aspects of drug therapy to trust staff, patients and external healthcare providers, to aid seamless care, tailored to the patients medical, social and cultural needs

4. Communication

• To liaise effectively with departmental staff and colleagues within the Trust with regards to policy development, medicines information and organisational structures
• To counsel patients sensitively and effectively, ensuring confidentiality is maintained
• To maintain and develop links with multidisciplinary teams to ensure the safe pharmaceutical care for elderly inpatients, and on discharge

5. Service Management and Development

• Responsible for leading on all legal, professional and clinical dispensary issues on a day to day basis under the direction of the superintendent pharmacist. This includes legal supervision of registered pharmacy premises in accordance to the standards set forth by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Be accountable and actively manage the clinical aspects of the private pharmacy, making independent clinical decisions to deal with arising issues and making optimal use of resources available and ensuring delivery of required performance standards and patient safety
• Develop, write and implement clinical and standard operating procedures within the dispensary and implement changes locally to the clinical area
• Be accountable for ensuring that delivery of the pharmacy service and medicines management within the private pharmacy complies with current Trust medicines management policies and dispensing procedures, and operates within guidance of the General Pharmaceutical Council, and Department of Health standards
• Undertake service review accordingly to enable service development and growth within the Private Patients Division of the Trust
• Ensure that risk assessments are undertaken where circumstances may mitigate against safe standards and practice, and advise on corrective action
• Support the Moorfields Private Pharmacy Operations & Development Manager in ensuring errors, complaints and incidents related to medicines are managed and reported appropriately within the Trust's guidelines

6. Financial Management

• To generate invoices for dispensed medicines and be responsible for the collection of money for prescriptions
• Monitor drug usage and expenditure and provide pharmaceutical advice to the Moorfields Private Pharmacy Operations & Development Manager where required, to enable informed decisions to be taken on appropriate and effective drug therapy within given resources
• To support the Moorfields Private Pharmacy Operations & Development Manager in the provision of monthly pharmacy activity reports to the Senior Management Team
• To assist the Private Patient Pharmacy Operations & Development Manager in updating the private prescription price list

7. Staff Management

• Directly line manage the Private Pharmacy Clinical Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians/ATOs in Moorfields Private
• Responsible for private pharmacy staffing rota to ensure adequate cover at all times, to embrace and implement the principles of skill mix to ensure appropriate utilisation of staff and improve their skills
• Ensure that all members of staff are included in the staff induction training, on-going development and 1:1 performance review (appraisal) process
• Ensure that pharmacy staff have adequate clinical supervision and mentorship and manage individual performance actively within the Trust's policies and procedures
• Ensure that staff are aware of and work within legal requirements and the Code of Ethics of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Recruit, develop and motivate staff to ensure they can and do perform well in their job, contribute towards improvements to the pharmaceutical service
• Encourage staff to suggest and implement changes to improve pharmaceutical services
• Ensure adherence to the Trust sickness policy, absence monitoring system and conduct return to work interviews

8. Teaching and education

• To contribute to identifying of educational and training opportunities for pharmacy, to supervise and train pharmacy staff, pre-registration pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy ATOs, and summer vacation students as appropriate
• To contribute to the on-going training and competency of nursing and medical staff with the provision of educational information and seminars according to need
• To be a pre-registration Pharmacist tutor if required.
• To be a CPD Facilitator if required. Identify training needs of junior staff in order to undertake their required roles.

9. Personal development

• Keep professionally updated at all times and be aware of National, Local and Community Policies, as well as Trust-wide issues and trends
• Be professionally, ethically and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work
• Maintain a personal development plan and identify training needs as required by Private Pharmacy Operations & Development Manager
• Keep a record of CPD as required by the General Pharmaceutical Council

10. Audit, research and development

• To complete relevant audits on behalf of Private Patient Services (e.g. CQC Medicines Security and Safe Handling audits to ensure the clinical areas to monitor compliance to Trust policy around the safe handling, storage and administration of medicines)
• To undertake service review accordingly to enable service development and growth within the Private Patients Division of the Trust
• To assist with the monitoring of the quality of the private pharmacy and private patient services and work with the leads responsible for the above services to ensure that the private patient pharmacy meets the needs of its users

11. Management of Controlled Drugs (where applicable)

• Be responsible for signing for receipt of controlled drugs, checking, unpacking and completion of legal records within the dispensary. Ensure delivery notes are dealt with appropriately ready for invoicing
• Ensure the quarterly controlled drug checks for allocated wards and departments including those for dispensary are completed in a timely manner and in accordance with the trusts CD procedures
• Promptly investigate and prepare a report on stock discrepancies of pharmacy controlled drugs
• Ensure a log of expired pharmacy controlled drug stock is maintained and ensure that all expired stock is booked off the pharmacy computer system appropriately
• Be responsible for legal destruction of controlled drugs within pharmacy and on the wards/depts. in accordance with the trusts procedures

12. Security

• Be a signatory for the departmental keys. Take responsibility for maintaining the security of the Pharmacy department at all times this includes opening and locking the department
• Authorised holder of the controlled drug cupboard keys (where applicable)
• Responsible for adhering to the pharmacy department and trusts security procedures for maintaining the security of the pharmacy department and the trusts patients, staff and visitors
• Responsible for the safe and secure handling of medicinal products

13 Resource Management and Stock Control

• Sign for the delivery of drugs and ensure delivery notes and invoices are dealt with appropriately
• Assist with the ordering of pharmaceuticals by electronically/manually requesting out of stock medicines or urgent items as needed
• Propose changes to pharmacy or ward stock levels of drugs, as necessary

Person Specification

Knowledge / skills / abilities

Essential

• Demonstrates good general pharmaceutical & clinical knowledge
• Leadership skills
• Good understanding of complex medicines use at ward level
• Lecture and presentation skills
• Time management skills
• Demonstrates ability to manage complex problems
• Demonstrates ability to identify and implement best practice
• Ability to prioritise well and work under pressure
• Be able to plan effectively both own workload and that of specialist team
• Able to work under pressure and sometimes hostile environment

Education / Qualifications

Essential

• Member of the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)

Desirable

• Post Graduate Clinical Diploma/MSPost Graduate Clinical Diploma/MSc in pharmacy

Experience

Essential

• 2+ years post-registration experience (minimum 18 months hospital experience)
• Previous experience of providing a specialised clinical pharmacy services
• Good understanding of admission & discharge processes in hospital
• Experience in development of policies, procedures or guidelines
• Previous experience in supervising and managing pharmacy staff
• Previous experience in mentoring & training
• Good understanding of risk management

Desirable

• Previous experience in private pharmacy service
• Experience of service development & project management
• Cost/expenditure reporting
• Previous experience in managing a dispensary service

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.

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UK Registration

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Employer details

Employer name

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Moorfields Private Outpatient Centre

9-11 Bath Street

London

EC1V 9LF

Employer's website

https://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/work-for-us (Opens in a new tab)