Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Virtual Wards

Senior Clinical Pharmacist - Virtual Wards

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHSFT

The Senior Clinical Pharmacist plays a crucial role within our virtual wards, with a clinical focus on frailty, respiratory and general medicine, working collaboratively with acute providers across Cheshire and Merseyside ICB. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic and evolving environment, providing pharmaceutical expertise to support the delivery of safe and effective patient care.

Our team is expanding and we are looking for two Senior Clinical Pharmacists to join our Virtual Ward Pharmacy Team, working alongside the Principal Clinical Pharmacist to design, enhance and deliver high quality pharmacy services to patients receiving care on virtual wards.

Join our team and make a difference in the lives of patients across Cheshire and Merseyside!

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the role include:

• Providing specialist clinical pharmacy services to the virtual wards, ensuring the safe and appropriate use of medicines.
• Collaborating with the multidisciplinary team to optimise medicines management, including medicines reconciliation, prescribing, and monitoring.
• Conducting comprehensive medication reviews and providing evidence-based recommendations to improve patient outcomes.
• Supporting the development and implementation of clinical guidelines, protocols and policies related to pharmacy and medicines management for virtual wards.
• Providing education and training to healthcare professionals, patients and carers on medicines-related topics.
• Contributing to audit, research, and service improvement projects to enhance pharmaceutical care for patients on virtual wards.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Master's degree in pharmacy or equivalent
• Registered as a pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC).
• Specialist knowledge acquired through a post graduate diploma course in Clinical Pharmacy or similar or alternatively acquired through relevant and equivalent experience
• Registered independent prescriber with the GPhC.

Experience

• Broad specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge.
• Developing and undertaking clinical and non-clinical audits.
• Familiarity with the concepts of evidence-based medicines.
• Involved in identifying and assessing risk to improve patient safety.
• Ability to demonstrate evidence of working in multi-disciplinary teams.
• Specialist knowledge and experience on relevant areas of community health services.
• Understanding of issues related to independent prescribing.
• Experience of providing clinical pharmacy services.
• Expertise of addressing and resolving legal issues related to medicines.
• Experience of implementing NICE, NSF recommendations related to medicines.
• Addressing, implementing and monitoring compliance with NHS Improvement Patient Safety Alerts related to medicines.
• Developing and delivering medicines management training to other healthcare professionals
• Managing or advising on drug budgets and drugs costs and how to monitor these.
• Experience of provision of medicines information and associated systems.
• Experience of working with older people with complex health needs as a clinical pharmacist.
• Management/supervision of pharmacy staff.

Skills, Knowledge and Competencies

• Excellent organisational skills.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships at all levels.
• Effective influencing and negotiation skills and ability to persuade others.
• Ability to communicate effectively with a range of healthcare staff including prescribers, social care staff and patients.
• Ability to work independently and within a team.
• Good time management skills, with ability to prioritise and manage own workload.
• Knowledge of other professional registering bodies e.g., NMC, GMC.
• Able to apply sound professional judgement to legal and ethical issues.
• Able to work and deliver within identified timelines.
• Self-motivated and able to initiate change.
• Methodological approach and attention to detail in terms of medicines.
• Ability to generate prescribing data using epact.net and to interpret data produced.

Specific role requirements

• Reliable, enthusiastic and self-motivated.
• Flexible approach.
• Able to concentrate on dispensing / checking/ clinical screening for extended periods.
• Able to cope with interruptions when busy.
• Able to work to deadlines i.e., transport, patients requiring medication.

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.

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHSFT