Clinical Pharmacist Band 6/7

Job summary

STEP Clinical Pharmacist B6/7 cross site working (Stafford/Stoke)

Newly qualified pharmacists will also be considered and appointed at B6 with progression to a B7 upon completion of a development plan

1. The post holder will provide clinical service to a range of patient services including wards, out-patient clinics, homecare, clinical trials, Day Case Unit and Mental Health Services
2. The post holder will be required to communicate complex medicines related information to prescribers, service users and carers taking account of barriers of understanding.
3. The post holder will require skills for analysing and interpreting medicines information based on specialist knowledge and understanding.
4. The post holder will plan and organise their own workload including the delivery of training sessions, completion of audits and project work activities.
5. The post holder will provide specialist advice concerning patient care.
6. The post holder will be involved in proposing policy and service changes that impact beyond their area.
7. The post holder will have responsibility for promoting safe and secure handling, storage, and reconciliation of medicines within their areas and responsibility for promoting cost effective practice concerning medicines across the Trust.
8. The post holder will be responsible for training and educating staff, service users and carers.
9. The post holder will have involvement in both maintaining and retrieving data from information systems and producing reports

Main duties of the job

• To provide a specialist Clinical Pharmacy service to clinical teams as part of the multidisciplinary approach.
• To provide patient and carer information on medication taking and identifying the wider services to support them.
• To take responsibility for delivering against agreed performance indicators for Clinical Pharmacy. Provision includes clinical intervention, monitoring, antimicrobial stewardship, clinical audit, and provision of summary reports.
• To ensure safe, cost-effective use of medicines for inpatients, outpatients, and day patients.
• Undertake service evaluation to optimise the use of medicines.
• To supervise dispensary activities professionally, efficiently, and accurately ensuring the dispensing of appropriate medicines.
• Support the introduction of a rotational programme of pharmacists across the Trust.
• To deputise for the Advanced Clinical Pharmacist as needed for range of duties including homecare and mental health services.
• The post holder will take part in the Pharmacy and Medicines Optimisation Service advisory on-call rota on a pro rata basis.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.