Advanced Clinical Pharmacist in Emergency Medicine

NHS; Leeds; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job description

Advanced Clinical Pharmacist in Emergency Medicine

Are you a clinical pharmacist with a passion for delivering high-quality care to patients, working in a multi-disciplinary team, and developing your career?

Due to changes within the team, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified clinical pharmacist to join our dynamic unplanned care team and work in A&E with an opportunity to upskill and work in the SDEC unit.

The unplanned care team is at the forefront of delivering innovative care. If you are excited about working in a busy teaching hospital environment and are driven to provide the highest level of service to patients and staff, we want to hear from you.

This is an excellent development opportunity where you will gain experience in managing patients with a wide range of clinical conditions, ensuring efficient patient flow, and high-level involvement with the whole MDT. You will be actively involved in medicine governance on the admissions wards, and developing and updating medicine guidance. You must be able to demonstrate that you work well independently and as part of a team. You must also show excellent prioritisation skills and the ability to work well in a fast-paced, high turnover setting. This is an excellent opportunity to develop yourself and gain more skills within a supportive team.

Main duties of the job

Leads the highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within Emergency Medicine. Ensures medicines are used appropriately, safely, and cost-effectively in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures, and medicine legislation. The post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieved in specific circumstances.

Manages other pharmacists providing specialised clinical pharmacy service within own clinical specialty depending on the size of the area.

Works directly and regularly with consultants, senior nursing staff, and managers within the clinical specialty.

Provides the Directorate with regular reports to assist in the safe use of medicines, the management of the drug budget, and clinical governance issues. The report also includes risk management such as the recording of significant clinical interventions and near misses.

Supervises, along with other members of their multidisciplinary team, the development and implementation of treatment protocols, and guidelines for the use of drugs within the clinical area.

Responsible for training pharmacists and other health care professionals on aspects of drug use within the clinical area.

Provides a minimum of at least one 4-hour session of service cover in the dispensary or aseptic dispensary each week. Participates in evening, weekend, and bank holiday rota.

Cross-site working may also be required for this post.

About us

Our values are part of what make us different from other trusts, so we see this as a strength, as well as a responsibility. They have been developed by our staff and set out what they see as important to how we work. Our five values are:

1. Accountable
2. Empowered

All our actions and endeavours will be guided and evaluated through these values.

Additionally, the following are core values which relate specifically to this post:

1. Professional attitude
2. Deal with customers in an honest and open manner with integrity
3. Strict adherence to patient confidentiality
4. Committed to CPD

Leeds Teaching Hospitals is committed to our process of redeploying 'at risk' members of our existing workforce to new roles. As such, all our job adverts are subject to this policy, and we reserve the right to close, delay, or remove adverts while this process is completed. If you do experience a delay in the shortlisting stage of the recruitment cycle, please bear with us while this process is completed, and contact the named contact if you have any questions.

Job responsibilities

Clinical

Lead the highly specialised clinical pharmacy service to patients and the multidisciplinary team within ED.

Supports the Trust's Prescribing Standards and challenges practice where prescribers have not adhered to the Medicines Code.

Demonstrate the ability to provide safe, clinically effective, and cost-effective use of medicines in accordance with Trust policy, standard operating procedures, and medicine legislation. This will include individual prescription review to optimise therapy, advising on dosage and side effects, and on safe administration of medicines. The post holder is expected to determine how the outcomes are best achieved in specific circumstances.

Pharmacists who are registered as prescribers will, with the agreement of the clinical director of the specialty, prescribe within their level of competence, to support patient care.

Plan, manage, monitor, and review individual patient care plans.

Manage difficult and ambiguous problems, often when information is limited.

Undertake risk management, including investigating clinical incidents in the clinical area and ensuring compliance with medicine legislation.

The post holder will be expected to identify, where necessary, areas that require service changes and develop a strategy to carry out the change through consultation with senior colleagues within and outside the pharmacy.

Manage the introduction of new drugs, including unlicensed drugs, into the clinical specialty.

Manage the clinical pharmacist input into clinical trials.

Develop and update policies for the safe, effective, and economic use of medicines through discussion with medical and nursing staff.

Communication with Primary Care about medicines policies or guidelines specific for their area of practice.

Management

Monitor and interpret expenditure on medicines within own clinical specialty. Provide the Directorate with regular reports to assist in the management of the drug budget.

1. Attend the monthly Clinical Specialty Management meetings to advise on medicine use and financial implications.
2. Horizon scan for new drugs and advise the clinical specialty meetings on the financial implications.
3. Co-ordinate Medicines Use Savings Projects.
4. Review prescribing data.

Contribution to financial initiatives.

Write or respond to business cases for service development to secure additional funding.

Responsible for day-to-day supervision/management of specialist clinical pharmacists in clinical specialty (some staff).

Research and Education

Participates in research and development within clinical specialty.

Undertakes own research/audit within clinical specialty.

Supervise, teach, and assess junior pharmacy staff completing training modules within the clinical area. This input varies, mostly based on the experience of the post holder, and will typically include:

1. Acting as a trainer to pre-registration and junior pharmacists in their area of specialist practice.
2. Being a named tutor for a pre-registration and/or diploma pharmacist.
3. Lecturing on clinical issues relevant to the specialty, as part of the pre-registration training program, the clinical diploma, and any other in-service training.

The post holder is also expected to participate in the training of other clinical professionals within their specialist area as requested.

Other

Provide a service commitment, typically a four-hour session to a specific area within the pharmacy department e.g. dispensary, aseptics, or medicines information.

Perform other duties as directed by manager.

Participate in the weekend service and, where contracted, the emergency duty service.

Person Specification

Experience

• Understanding and appreciation of local and national pharmaceutical and clinical strategies.
• Understanding of NHS/government policy and its applications.
• Team dynamics and effective leadership strategies to optimise performance.

Skills & behaviours

• Self-motivated.
• Able to work under own initiative.
• Be highly adaptive to changing circumstances and situations.

Qualifications

• Registrant of the GPhC.
• Postgraduate diploma in clinical pharmacy or equivalent.
• Non-medical prescriber status.

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.