Specialist Clinical Pharmacist (XR07)

Job description

Job responsibilities

Provide a specialist clinical pharmacist service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within a given specialty. Ensure medicines are used appropriately, safely, and cost effectively in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures, and medicines legislation.

Monitor drug use within their clinical area. This includes recording of significant clinical interventions, risk management, and some basic financial aspects.

Supervise, along with other members of their multidisciplinary team, the development and implementation of treatment protocols, and guidelines for use of drugs within the clinical area.

Responsible for training pharmacists, and other health care professionals, on aspects of drug use within the clinical area.

Provide a minimum of at least one 4 hour session of service cover in the dispensary or aseptic dispensary per week.

To act as the Responsible Pharmacist in line with local procedures.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES & AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Provide specialist clinical service to patients and other members of the multi-disciplinary team within the given specialty. This will include:

Individual prescription review to optimise therapy.

Advice on dosage and side effects.

Advise on safe administration of medicines.

Participation on consultant ward rounds and multidisciplinary team meetings.

Responsibility for medicines risk management in clinical area, including investigating clinical incidents, recording significant clinical interventions/near misses, and ensuring compliance with medicines legislation, and local policies.

Assist in the introduction of new drugs, including unlicensed medicines, into the clinical specialty.

Keep records of patient related information e.g. pharmaceutical care plans.

Organisation and planning of own workload on an on-going basis e.g. ward cover, training, audit, project work, attendance of meetings etc.

Pharmacists who are registered as prescribers will, with the agreement of the clinical director of the speciality, prescribe within their level of competence, to support patient care.

Supervise, teach, and assess junior pharmacy staff completing training modules within the clinical area. This input varies, mostly based on the experience of the post holder, and increases over time.

The post holder is also expected to participate in the training of other clinical professionals within their specialist area as requested.

Participate in any medicines related clinical trials in the specialty.

Propose and carry out clinical pharmacy practice research within their clinical area, and participate in any larger pharmacy research and audit.

Work within standard operational procedures, Trust policy, and wider professional guidelines.

Provide a service commitment (typically one 4 hour session) to a specified area within the pharmacy department i.e dispensary, aseptics, or medicines information.

Participate in evening, weekend and bank holiday pharmacy service on a rotational basis, and where contracted, the emergency duty service.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Moderate or significant post registration experience as a practising pharmacist
• Ability to interpret information and provide advice
• Broad clinical pharmacy knowledge
• Experience of aseptic dispensing
• Able to demonstrate competency in all aspects of General Level Framework

Desirable

• Experience of parenteral nutrition services

Skills & behaviours

Essential

• Specialist knowledge of a clinical area/department which demonstrates the ability to manage a caseload within the given speciality.
• Experience of dealing with complex clinical issues that require the analysis of a variety of sources of information, which may not be in agreement, to reach an appropriate response.
• Experience of dealing with clinical and non-clinical staff, typically at junior grades, but occasionally at higher consultant and managerial levels
• Team player
• Enthusiastic
• Exceptional communication skills written, verbal, and listening

Qualifications

Essential

• Masters qualification in Pharmacy (4 years), or equivalent qualification, plus 1 year pre-registration training.
• Registrant of the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent experience or qualification.
• Member of a relevant Professional Development Body e.g. RPSGB, BOPA, NPPG

Desirable

• Non-Medical Prescriber

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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Employer details

Employer name

Leeds Teaching Hospitals

Address

St. James's University Hospital

Beckett Street

Leeds

LS9 7TF

Employer's website

https://www.leedsth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)