Portfolio Senior Clinical Pharmacist

Job responsibilities

Overarching key responsibilities:

Trust Wide / Primary Care Medicines Management Service Provision

To support the Head of Pharmacy/Head of Medicines Management in the implementation of the Medicines Management Strategy and organizational priorities in line with national and local policy. Examples of work streams include policy development, incident monitoring, implementing relevant medicines-related national guidance across the organization(s)

To provide an independent source of specialist advice and support to both community health services and primary care teams on clinical effectiveness of medicines and cost-effective medicines management

To co-ordinate and participate in collecting and recording appropriate quantifiable data/activity and intervention data to monitor key performance indicators to identify areas for improvement and development

To support medicines management projects and workstreams within CLCH and HCL

To support the Head of Medicines Management/ Head of Pharmacy to manage strategies for clinical and financial risk management, clinical governance and controls assurance for medicines management in collaboration with other Directorates

To devise, undertake and evaluate audits as agreed with managers

Management/Leadership

To support the evaluation of the effectiveness of this new portfolio role working across two care settings.

To ensure that communication with other health care professionals around medication related issues are dispatched in accordance with local policy.

To review systems of work, developing programs to improve efficiency where required, and monitor these changes

To support with the line management of junior pharmacists, technicians and support staff within the team, where required.

To deputise in the absence of your line manager as appropriate

To at all times maintain the complete confidentiality of the material and information handled.

To support the successful achievement of all organisational targets and objectives.

To attend and contribute to regular team meetings.

Professional

Use experience and judgment at all times, in acting on ones own initiative when required. Contribute and implement ideas to enhance medication prescribing procedures, to improve safety of the patients

To work within the professional standards established by the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).

To undertake mandatory continuing professional development

Qualifications

Essential

• Undergraduate Degree in Pharmacy: MPharm (or equivalent prior to 2002)
• Professional registration with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC)
• Completion of CPPE Primary care pharmacy education pathway
• Takes personal responsibility for Continuing Professional Development as evidenced by portfolio
• Uses reflective practice for personal and professional development
• Independent Prescribing Qualification

Desirable

• Postgraduate clinical pharmacy qualification to at least diploma level

Physical

Essential

• Health cleared by occupational health for the role specified

Experience

Essential

• Post-qualification experience of clinical pharmacy, medicines information and prescribing advice
• Experience of working in secondary care and in a multidisciplinary environment
• Primary care experience
• Experience of training
• Experience of audit techniques

Desirable

• Community Health Services experience
• Project management experience
• Experience in supervising a team/service and line management

Knowledge

Essential

• Up to date clinical and pharmaceutical knowledge
• Sound knowledge of prescribing, pharmacy and medicines management issues faced in primary and secondary care
• Understanding of the NHS and political environment

Skills

Essential

• Excellent communication skills both verbal and written including presentation skills and report writing
• Team player but able to work independently
• Demonstrates initiative
• Demonstrates excellent decision-making skills and is able to understand complex information
• Effective negotiation skills and ability to persuade others
• Ability to assimilate, analyse and interpret clinical and financial data.
• Good problem solving skills
• Good inter-personal skills and ability to build relationships
• Ability to provide succinct and objective advice
• To manage own time, prioritise workload effectively and work to tight deadlines
• Computer literate working knowledge of office applications, internet, email and electronic diary systems
• Ability to plan, set objectives, priorities and review performance against objectives
• Ability to command and deal sensitively with emotive situations and be seen as credible by professional colleagues
• Can identify and manage risks and evaluate quality of own work and service
• Ability to adapt to different working environments

Approach

Essential

• Self-motivator and commitment to supporting high quality medicines management
• Flexibility in approach to meet service needs and ability
• to support complex changes
• Innovative thinker and can do approach

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).