Band 8a Lead Clinical Pharmacist

Job summary

Job Title: Lead Clinical Pharmacist - 85410

Grade: Band 8a

Trust: Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Location: Royal Berkshire Hospital, RG1 5AN

Ward:Pharmacy

Pay Rates: £32.06 per hour

Shift Patterns: 37.5 hours per week, Mon-Fri 09:00-17:15

Why might this job interest you?

Are you a skilled and compassionate Pharmacist with Clinical experience? Are ready to play a crucial role in patient care? Join our team at Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust and help us make a difference!

Main duties of the job

Support the pharmacy admissions team in identifying patients with pharmaceutical problems and prioritising appropriately to quickly resolve problems.

Act as supervisor and mentor for rotational pharmacists and MMTs and provide educational support for new members of staff requiring medicines reconciliation training.

Participate in clinical pharmacy services including training, prescription chart review, patient counselling, adverse drug reaction reporting and therapeutic drug monitoring and individualisation of patients drug therapy.

optimise medicines management within the Trust and the Pharmaceutical Care of those patients, ensuring that drug therapy is provided in a safe, effective and cost-effective manner tailored to the clinical need of individual patients.

Be available for expert consultation with medical and nursing staff on matters relating to safe, economic and effective drug usage, including implementation of Infection Control policies, Medicines Management Policy and the Trust Formulary.

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