Lead Pharmacist Medicines Information Services

Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Governance:

To be responsible for the provision and development of clinical pharmacy services to Medical, Surgical and Health Care of the Elderly Wards in line with local and national Clinical Pharmacy Standards.

To have overall responsibility for Medicines Information- co-ordinating and leading the departmental Medicines Information and Staff training programme in conjunction with the Pharmacy Manager, Principal Clinical Pharmacist and the Medicines Management Team.

Investigate Clinical Incidents involving medications both within the Pharmacy dept. and throughout HSC, ensuring processes are in place to develop learning from these incidents.

To lead on the participation in the NHS Benchmarking project, Medication Safety Thermometer and local KPI provision and monitoring.

To be responsible for the review of Patient Group Directives within the Bailiwick of Guernsey and the implementation and updating of protocols, guidelines, policies, within HSC which are medicines related.

Reviews results of external audit and benchmarking related to Medicines Information and develop action plan as necessary.

To be a member of and contribute to the Clinical Guidelines Committee

Aid in the provision of evaluated drug expenditure data

To facilitate the undertaking and contribute to multi-disciplinary audit.

Management :

To deputise for the Lead Pharmacist Clinical Audit and Patient Safety in their absence in relation to day to day workload planning.

To participate in meetings and working groups relating to new Drugs and Policies relating to Medication usage and to work closely with the HSC Clinical Governance Team, ensure that policies relating to medicines and clinical services are in line with local and national directives.

To attend and advise HSC Governance Teams of any Safety Issues surrounding the provision and administration of Medicines within HSC and to report to Governance internal KPIs and external Benchmarking Information.

To provide advice to medical staff on medicines usage and expenditure.

To be a member of the HSC Therapeutics Advisory Committee and the Prescribing and Formulary committee

Leadership:

To act as the Pharmacy Lead for the provision of Medicines Information and Training

To lead in the Clinical Pharmacy Support to the Electronic Prescribing Project in the area of Orthopaedics and Care of the Elderly

To provide professional leadership to the Medicines Management team.

To be the secretary of the Therapeutics Advisory Panel and cover for the Chair in their absence

Service Development:

Develop the Medicines Information Service for the Pharmacy service area and participate in the development of a Staff Training Programme.

To be responsible for the development of a strategic plan for Medicines Information

Develop and monitor services to support an improved discharge service for patients, and carers ensuring a more effective transition from Secondary to Primary Care.

Initiate, plan, develop and implement clinical guidelines related to medicines use within HSC.

Education and Development:

Plan and deliver training to pharmacy and other clinical staff on issues related to New Medicines or any issues raised as a result of Clinical Audit. Supervising students on wards as appropriate.

To provide training to the Medicines Management Team in the form of Clinical CPD Meetings.

To provide training to ward and HSC staff, including the annual prescribing update to consultants employed at HSC.

The post holder will be committed to the concepts of continuing professional development and lifelong learning personally and for staff.

Contributing to the induction and competency based training of Clinical pharmacy, Medicines and medical and nursing staff.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Minimum of three years post
• registration.
• Experience of delivering clinical
• Hospital Pharmacy services, broad
• knowledge base of clinical
• pharmacy across a range of
• specialties
• Evidence of Multidisciplinary Team
• working
• Change Management
• Clinical Audit and /or Medicines
• Information Experience
• Experience in managing Clinical
• Incidents or other area of Patient
• Safety
• Able to accept responsibility for a

Qualifications

Essential

• Pharmacy Degree
• Registered with the General
• Pharmaceutical Council
• Postgraduate diploma / MSc in
• clinical pharmacy or equivalent
• experience
• Evidence of CPD

Desirable

• Independent Prescriber
• Management Qualification
• Evidence of training
• experience or qualification

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

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).

Employer details

Employer name

States of Guernsey

Address

Princess Elizabeth Hospital

Le Vauquiedor

St. Martin

Guernsey

GY4 6UU

Employer's website

https://www.gov.gg/ (Opens in a new tab)