Job responsibilities
Leadership,
Management and Service Planning
1. Provide leadership in the development
of a culture that encourages education, research and service development
across all areas of the pharmacy including Medicines Advisory Services (MAS)
in order to secure continuous improvement to overall pharmacy service and the
introduction of innovative service developments.
2. Provide enthusiastic and motivated
leadership and strategic direction for the Leeds MAS, in line with the
pharmacy and Trust strategy,
3. Work with of the national UKMI group
and contribute to strategy development.
4. Develop and maintain relationships
with key users in order to gather intelligence about their changing needs.
Ensure that users are updated on changes in information and technology and
the implications for delivering an MAS to them. Identify needs for new or
extended MAS services
5. Lead the development of, and be
responsible for the management, evaluation and financial monitoring of
Service Level Agreements (SLAs), where appropriate. Prepare and present
reports to organisations and partners in respect of SLAs.
6. Provide pharmaceutical professional
leadership and be responsible for maintenance and development of the MAS and
policy implementation, ensuring that funding is secured for service
developments through business cases and negotiation with relevant stakeholders
7. Collaborate with stakeholders within
pharmacy, CSUs and Trust to support the effective delivery and provision of
the Pharmacy Services and achievement of the Pharmacy Business Plan and
Medicine Management Strategy and the Trust Objectives.
8. Develop an accessible service
responsive to patients, practitioners and users needs. Identify and manage
change in MAS required as a result of the rapidly changing NHS environment
9. To continuously review skill mix and
workforce development within the department and in collaboration across
pharmacy services
Identify,
pursue and develop potential income generating initiatives.
10. Be responsible for economic resource
and equipment purchasing
11. Ensure that advice and information
concerning the use of medicines, provided by the MAS, meets all legal and
statutory controls.
12. Develop indicators of service quality,
volume and cost.
13. Implement, develop and maintain all
necessary systems used to record, collate, retrieve, store, disseminate and
evaluate information in MI service.
14. Develop innovative ways of
communicating and disseminating medicines information through development and
maintenance of systems using the intranet and internet.
15. Ensure staff receive adequate
training, and have an appropriate level and range of skills, confidence and
resources to deliver all the components of the MAS
16. Ensure risk management systems are in
place Ensure that the quality and timeliness of information and advice
provided by the department meets local and national standards within
financial constraints, and that the users satisfaction within the service is
audited against agreed standards and highlighted issues are addressed.
17. Be responsible for ensuring that the
legal and statutory requirements in relation to medicines and all aspects of
the MAS are met and ensure that the delivery of pharmaceutical care to
patients and customers in the defined areas meets both national and local
Hospital pharmacy standards.
18. Be responsible for the continual
review of pharmaceutical service provision to a range of specialties, CSUs or
Trust wide. Where necessary, plan and implement changes to ensure that future
service development needs are met.
19. Proactively manage a risk register for
MAS and the MMPS CSU in accordance with Trust policy.
20. Ensure that physical requirements of
staff and service meet Health and Safety and Occupational Health Regulations
and that where requires; bids for new space, furniture or equipment are
submitted.
National
& Regional Activity
1. Develop the role of the specialist
medicines advisory roles across the full breadth of services and ensure links
maintained and developed with appropriate national networks and bodies e.g.
UKMI Exec, UKCPA, GHP
2. Represent Leeds at National Medicines
Information, Medication Safety Officer, Medicines Commissioning and Holistic
Healthcare networks as appropriate.
3. Develop and Lead MAS team members to
develop their own leadership potential through regional and national
activities
4. Liaise and coordinate negotiations
with relevant bodies such as NHS England, MHRA, CCGs, General Practitioners,
Community Pharmacy representatives and others as required.
5. Develop MAS, Medicines Information,
Medication Safety Officer and Medical Devices Safety Officer Networks and
joint initiatives with other local providers to facilitate shared objective
development, across the current NHS geography.
Service
Activity
1. Lead the development of service
standards/ and performance criteria Deliver the MAS to an agreed level of
quality and timeliness within the legal framework, local and national
standards and financial constraints, providing specialist information and
expert opinion, to practitioners both within and outside pharmacy and Trust
to ensure the safe and cost-effective delivery of drug therapy to influence
and support patient care.
2. Deal with highly complex, often
sensitive or contentious, urgent and non-urgent clinical and managerial
issues which required the pharmacist to gather, record, analyse and interpret
data and information in order to create and compare options and formulate a
response, based on a range of sources. In some cases, information will be
lacking, incomplete, possibly biased and/or misleading or information sources
may not be in agreement. In these situations, it may be necessary to use
professional judgement to deliver a helpful, accurate, up to date answer or
find a novel solution to an unusual clinical or managerial situation. The
pharmacist will use negotiating and persuasive skills when interacting with
other clinical team members, colleagues, hospital managers, patients and
relatives who may challenge their advice.
3. Demonstrate the ability to provide
safe, clinically effective and cost-effective use of medicines in accordance
with Trust policy, standard operating procedures and medicine legislation.
This will include prescription review, advising on appropriate dosage, side
effects and on the safe administration and storage of medicines. In
specialist services this may occur for a group of defined patients as well as
individuals. The post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are
best achieved in specific circumstance.
4. Responsible for maintaining
appropriate data entry records and storage of information of dispensing,
clinical and MAS specialist information in line with standard operating
procedures Play a key role in the investigation of medicine related incidents
and agreement of action plans and coordinate local response to national alert
mechanisms
5. Lead and oversee the development of
Trust Medicines Management Policies
6. Analyse and provide detailed
information regarding drug use and financial data for stakeholders to
influence external decision making.
Education
and Training and Research and Development
1. Ensure that Medicines Advisory
Service training is encompassed in the departmental training plan.
2. Lead teaching sessions and workshops,
as relevant to professional and clinical expertise. These will be in-house, external and as
part of the linked teaching programme with academic associates (e.g.
University of Leeds and University of Bradford).
3. Promote research activities of
individuals The post holder will undertake and publish practice research and
enable team members to do likewise.
4. Bid for funding and resources to
support research, development and audit, technology, information provision
and training.
Human
Resources
1. Be responsible for individual and
team performance through the setting of agreed objectives linked to the Trust
and Pharmacy business plan objectives. Following induction of staff, work
with them to develop their PDPs supported through performance review
systems. Also responsible for sickness, disciplinary and grievance matters
and recruitment strategies including undertaking skill mix reviews and
succession planning.
2. Ensure that all staff working in MAS
are motivated and developed as a team to do their best to achieve their
professional and personal goals, to contribute towards the Pharmacy business
plan and help them to develop their skills and knowledge and ultimately their
career direction.
3. Authorise salaries and wages
documentation including management of ESR.
4. Ensure good HR practices required
through investors in People, Improving Working Lives and Equality and
Diversity are applied and that Trust policies are followed.
Other
1. The post holder will be committed to
the concepts of continuing professional development and lifelong learning.
2. Work agreed sessions in a dispensary
area and providing a full range of dispensing services.
3. Provide pharmacy and weekend working
and participate in the pharmacy out of hours working arrangements to the
frequency as contractually agreed.
