Job summary
Band 7 Specialist
Clinical Pharmacist plus EDC
If you want to
broaden your experience of hospital Pharmacy, whilst contributing towards the
work of a busy department, then this is the job for you. We are pleased
to offer an opportunity for an enthusiastic clinical pharmacist to join the
pharmacy team at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust.
You will be part of our progressive pharmacy team and
contribute to the implementation of the Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy
Services strategy, striving for excellence to provide the highest standards of
care for our patients. The successful applicant will join our pharmacy team working within Care of the Elderly.
In addition to excellent communication and clinical skills, you will have previous experience of working within a clinical environment. You
would have completed, or be near to completion, of a post-graduate diploma in clinical pharmacy in order to support
your work as a specialist clinical pharmacist.
You will contribute to the weekend, late night and
emergency duty rotas.
You will also be encouraged to undertake the Non-Medical
Prescribing course if you have not already done so.
Candidates are invited to apply early as the closing date
for applications will be brought forward if sufficient applications are
received before the advertised closing date.
Main duties of the job
To deliver a
high quality specialist clinical pharmacy service on a rotational basis.
To work with the Advanced Clinical Pharmacist(s) in the specific clinical
specialty area, and support them in service development and audit.
To undertake
routine clinical pharmacy duties in designated areas of work, both clinical and
operational and ensure compliance with medicines legislation.
To support pharmacy
service areas in the department if required.
This may include dispensaries, technical services and medicines
information.
Departmental
duties will require the individual where appropriate to take a clinical
supervisory role.
To undertake
the professional duties of a pharmacist within the Trust's service.
To ensure,
under the guidance of the relevant pharmacy manager, appropriate supervision of
pharmacy technicians, pharmacy support workers and trainee pharmacists and to
provide mentoring of junior pharmacists in order to maintain strict compliance
with checking and working procedures.
About us
We provide care and support to over a million people in
Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our
three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).
Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of
innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our
workforce.
We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful
and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid
Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.
We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm
irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and
gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation,
or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to
someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the
LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently
under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from
members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all
applicants are treated fairly and consistently.
We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable
guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.
We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If
you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our
patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Area of Responsibility:
The Specialist Clinical Pharmacist
will work closely with the Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to support the delivery
of Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy services to Care of the Elderly.
This includes:
-
Contributing
to the development and maintenance of policies and guidelines.
- Liaising with all grades of medical and nursing
staff over relevant aspects of the pharmacy service. Helping to implement
necessary service changes as a consequence of these consultations.
- Identifying, reporting on and responding to risk
management issues or clinical incidents, referring to peers as necessary.
-
Generating
and reviewing reports in order to assist Advanced Clinical Pharmacists to
inform the Trust about medication usage and expenditure and/or safety issues
related to medicines.
-
Participating
in audits to demonstrate the effectiveness or identify development needs of all
systems relating to the use of medicines.
-
Deliver, in
collaboration with staff in the Medicines Information department, support for
Formulary & Drug Usage Audit initiatives.
There may be a requirement to
cover other areas for other colleagues for example for annual leave or sickness
cover.
Other clinical service
commitments may include:
-
General Medicine
-
Rehabilitation
-
Acute admissions (medical)
-
Cardiology
-
Respiratory
-
Gastroenterology
-
Spinal injuries
-
Surgery
-
Acute admissions (surgical)
-
Orthopaedics
-
Plastic & burns
-
Critical care
-
Women's & children's services
-
Community Services, visiting patients in their
own homes or care homes to conduct clinical medication reviews and improve
adherence
This list is not exhaustive and
the clinical specialty areas may change according to service development needs.
The post holder will be required to work at any location
where the Trust provides services.
Clinical
Activities
The post holder is accountable for his/her own
professional actions. Guidance of senior colleagues will be available for
reference if required but the post holder will have independent responsibility
for all duties carried out on a day to day basis.
Provide pharmaceutical care to patients at ward
level in both the acute hospital and in organisations with which the Trust has
a Service Level Agreement such as Intermediate Care and Community Services.
This role involves the development and maintenance of care plans for patients
on the unit/directorate, including:
- taking a
medication history and completing medicines reconciliation,
- assessing patients
own medicines,
- reviewing
medication regimens to ensure safe effective and cost-efficient use,
- appropriate
monitoring of treatment given during the hospital stay,
- developing
plans for care and education of the patient about treatment changes and the
best way in which they can manage their own medicines, where appropriate
through self administration schemes,
- facilitating
the discharge planning process and promote seamless care across the
primary/secondary care interface,
- facilitating
implementation of local and national guidelines for medicines use,
- liaising
with staff over issues of storage and stock control and monitor and review
stock holding, and
- reporting
medicines related incidents and complaints with a view to resolving problems
and minimising risk.
Provide evidence based pharmaceutical advice to
the medical and nursing staff. This may be active - where pharmaceutical
problems identified by the post holder require resolution, or passive - where
doctors or nurses seek advice from the pharmacist.
Carry out duties in the dispensary to help to
ensure that medicines are provided in a timely fashion for in-patients and
out-patients. These duties will include:
- clinical and accuracy checking of prescriptions
- dispensing medicines
- dealing with medicines for clinical trial
patients
- ensuring adherence to medicines legislation and
accurate record keeping especially for those medicines covered by the Misuse of
Drugs Act
- ensuring medicines are selected and employed in
accordance with the Trust Medicines Charter and the Medicines Guide
- supervising technicians and trainee pharmacists
and mentoring junior rotational pharmacists
- educating patients and/or their representatives
about their medicines
- liaising with various members of the
multi-disciplinary team
- inputting patient related data into computers
- managing and prioritising workload to tight
deadlines and ensuring urgent work is done
- moving stock when necessary
- where appropriate, handling money
- making decisions relating to medicines stock
availability.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
Area of Responsibility:
The Specialist Clinical Pharmacist
will work closely with the Advanced Clinical Pharmacist to support the delivery
of Medicines Optimisation and Pharmacy services to Care of the Elderly.
This includes:
-
Contributing
to the development and maintenance of policies and guidelines.
- Liaising with all grades of medical and nursing
staff over relevant aspects of the pharmacy service. Helping to implement
necessary service changes as a consequence of these consultations.
- Identifying, reporting on and responding to risk
management issues or clinical incidents, referring to peers as necessary.
-
Generating
and reviewing reports in order to assist Advanced Clinical Pharmacists to
inform the Trust about medication usage and expenditure and/or safety issues
related to medicines.
-
Participating
in audits to demonstrate the effectiveness or identify development needs of all
systems relating to the use of medicines.
-
Deliver, in
collaboration with staff in the Medicines Information department, support for
Formulary & Drug Usage Audit initiatives.
There may be a requirement to
cover other areas for other colleagues for example for annual leave or sickness
cover.
Other clinical service
commitments may include:
-
General Medicine
-
Rehabilitation
-
Acute admissions (medical)
-
Cardiology
-
Respiratory
-
Gastroenterology
-
Spinal injuries
-
Surgery
-
Acute admissions (surgical)
-
Orthopaedics
-
Plastic & burns
-
Critical care
-
Women's & children's services
-
Community Services, visiting patients in their
own homes or care homes to conduct clinical medication reviews and improve
adherence
This list is not exhaustive and
the clinical specialty areas may change according to service development needs.
The post holder will be required to work at any location
where the Trust provides services.
Clinical
Activities
The post holder is accountable for his/her own
professional actions. Guidance of senior colleagues will be available for
reference if required but the post holder will have independent responsibility
for all duties carried out on a day to day basis.
Provide pharmaceutical care to patients at ward
level in both the acute hospital and in organisations with which the Trust has
a Service Level Agreement such as Intermediate Care and Community Services.
This role involves the development and maintenance of care plans for patients
on the unit/directorate, including:
- taking a
medication history and completing medicines reconciliation,
- assessing patients
own medicines,
- reviewing
medication regimens to ensure safe effective and cost-efficient use,
- appropriate
monitoring of treatment given during the hospital stay,
- developing
plans for care and education of the patient about treatment changes and the
best way in which they can manage their own medicines, where appropriate
through self administration schemes,
- facilitating
the discharge planning process and promote seamless care across the
primary/secondary care interface,
- facilitating
implementation of local and national guidelines for medicines use,
- liaising
with staff over issues of storage and stock control and monitor and review
stock holding, and
- reporting
medicines related incidents and complaints with a view to resolving problems
and minimising risk.
Provide evidence based pharmaceutical advice to
the medical and nursing staff. This may be active - where pharmaceutical
problems identified by the post holder require resolution, or passive - where
doctors or nurses seek advice from the pharmacist.
Carry out duties in the dispensary to help to
ensure that medicines are provided in a timely fashion for in-patients and
out-patients. These duties will include:
- clinical and accuracy checking of prescriptions
- dispensing medicines
- dealing with medicines for clinical trial
patients
- ensuring adherence to medicines legislation and
accurate record keeping especially for those medicines covered by the Misuse of
Drugs Act
- ensuring medicines are selected and employed in
accordance with the Trust Medicines Charter and the Medicines Guide
- supervising technicians and trainee pharmacists
and mentoring junior rotational pharmacists
- educating patients and/or their representatives
about their medicines
- liaising with various members of the
multi-disciplinary team
- inputting patient related data into computers
- managing and prioritising workload to tight
deadlines and ensuring urgent work is done
- moving stock when necessary
- where appropriate, handling money
- making decisions relating to medicines stock
availability.
Person Specification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- The post holder must be equally at ease talking to patients, medical and nursing staff of all grades in both primary and secondary care and will need to present written and verbal reports to senior hospital staff.
- The post holder must have standard keyboard skills and a familiarity with routine office software - word processing, spread sheeting and PowerPoint.
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in pharmacy obtained through four years undergraduate training.
- Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Desirable
- Membership of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacists Association.
- Membership of the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists.
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
- Non medical prescribing or working towards a prescribing qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Experience in pharmacy practice obtained through one year pre-registration training and examination.
- A broad experience of clinical working in a number of specialty areas at a developed level.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and experience in UK hospital pharmacy.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Exhibits an enthusiasm for development of the practice of Pharmacy.
- Able to work as an individual and within a team.
- Possesses personal organisational attributes.
- Responds positively to service deadlines.
- Able to plan and manage own workload.
- Possesses good verbal and written communication skills.
- The post holder must display an understanding of and ability to deal with the confidential and sensitive information with which they will come into contact on a daily basis.
- The post holder will need the necessary skills to be able to communicate complicated medication issues to patients and carers in order that they may understand and make best use of their medicines.
- The post holder must display an understanding and ability to communicate and deal with all patients and/or carers some of whom may have language, sensory or learning difficulties, or who may be dying or distressed because of their diagnosis or state of health.
Knowledge and awareness
Essential
- Awareness of own limitations.
- Good Clinical Knowledge.
Desirable
- Knowledge of JAC dispensing system and other clinical systems.
Other
Essential
- Must be physically able to visit wards and departments across the Trust as required by the activities of the job.
- Willing and able to travel throughout the Wakefield District area to cover community services roles.
Person Specification
Skills and Abilities
Essential
- Good written and verbal communication skills.
- The post holder must be equally at ease talking to patients, medical and nursing staff of all grades in both primary and secondary care and will need to present written and verbal reports to senior hospital staff.
- The post holder must have standard keyboard skills and a familiarity with routine office software - word processing, spread sheeting and PowerPoint.
Qualifications
Essential
- Masters Degree in pharmacy obtained through four years undergraduate training.
- Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council.
Desirable
- Membership of the United Kingdom Clinical Pharmacists Association.
- Membership of the Guild of Healthcare Pharmacists.
- Membership of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
- Non medical prescribing or working towards a prescribing qualification.
Experience
Essential
- Experience in pharmacy practice obtained through one year pre-registration training and examination.
- A broad experience of clinical working in a number of specialty areas at a developed level.
Desirable
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team and experience in UK hospital pharmacy.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Exhibits an enthusiasm for development of the practice of Pharmacy.
- Able to work as an individual and within a team.
- Possesses personal organisational attributes.
- Responds positively to service deadlines.
- Able to plan and manage own workload.
- Possesses good verbal and written communication skills.
- The post holder must display an understanding of and ability to deal with the confidential and sensitive information with which they will come into contact on a daily basis.
- The post holder will need the necessary skills to be able to communicate complicated medication issues to patients and carers in order that they may understand and make best use of their medicines.
- The post holder must display an understanding and ability to communicate and deal with all patients and/or carers some of whom may have language, sensory or learning difficulties, or who may be dying or distressed because of their diagnosis or state of health.
Knowledge and awareness
Essential
- Awareness of own limitations.
- Good Clinical Knowledge.
Desirable
- Knowledge of JAC dispensing system and other clinical systems.
Other
Essential
- Must be physically able to visit wards and departments across the Trust as required by the activities of the job.
- Willing and able to travel throughout the Wakefield District area to cover community services roles.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
