Senior Clinical Pharmacist-Healthcare of the Older Person

Senior Clinical Pharmacist-Healthcare of the Older Person

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Due to the secondment of the current post holder we have a 9 month secondment/fixed term opportunity to work as the Senior Pharmacist - Healthcare of the Older Person.

You will be a valued member of the pharmacy clinical team, working on the Healthcare of the Older Person (HCOP) wards at QMC campus. You will apply your pharmaceutical knowledge to ensure medicines optimisation for the patients on the wards. Deprescribing and falls prevention are key areas of focus. You will also use good communication and planning skills to ensure safe transfer of care across the interface.

Good Multidisciplinary working is key in HCOP and you will get the opportunity to build excellent working relationships with other professionals on the ward.

You will be joining the NUH Pharmacy Frailty/HCOP team, working alongside 4 Specialist Pharmacists and Chief Technician who will give support and training.

You will also have the opportunity to give education and support to junior pharmacists and students working in HCOP.

Main duties of the job

The post will be based predominantly at the Queens Medical Centre Campus, but there may be the expectation to travel to the City campus on occasions.

In addition to the below summary you need to familiarise yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

1. To provide a clinical pharmacy service to the NUH Healthcare of the Older Person (HCOP) wards.
2. To work alongside the multidisciplinary team delivering excellent patient care through medicines optimisation. If a qualified prescriber, the post holder will also utilise their prescribing skills to do this.
3. To facilitate timely discharges by clinically screening discharge prescriptions/TTOs.
4. To assist the Specialist Clinical Pharmacists with specialty level support roles such as governance, teaching and guidelines.
5. To support, mentor & line manage junior pharmacists and medicines management technicians.
6. To be actively involved in quality improvement projects.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world-class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job responsibilities

1. To provide a clinical Pharmacy Service to the NUH HCOP wards.
2. To ensure safe, rational and effective prescribing by undertaking medication reconciliation, assessing suitability of prescribed medication, enabling use of patients' own medicines and patient self-administration, counselling (to optimise medicines use), and ensuring continuity of patient care on leaving hospital.
3. To ensure patients receive the best pharmaceutical care throughout their stay by ensuring care plans continue to be reviewed, along with managing complex multimorbidity and potentially inappropriate polypharmacy.
4. To support with proactive assessment of patient adherence and ability to manage medicines prior to discharge; working with patients as partners ensuring their autonomy where possible.
5. To improve the quality of discharge communications between secondary and primary care (community pharmacies and general practice) and to care homes and to actively identify and/or refer patients to benefit from a targeted MUR post discharge to a community pharmacy.
6. To partake in clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken in the relevant clinical specialties. This includes a prescribing role when qualified.
7. To make recommendations about medicines to improve patient outcomes and to encourage adherence to hospital formulary and national guidelines.
8. To line manage and support more junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians in the medical team specialties.
9. To facilitate or conduct clinical audits which are part of the pharmacy audit plan that are suitable for presentation at a local level.
10. To take full part in the 7-day shifted rota and bank holidays duties.
11. We operate a 7-day working model; the post-holder will contribute to the senior on-call rota providing back-up support to the on-call pharmacist. All of our dispensaries are pharmacist-free and technician led, so there are no operational commitments.
12. Whilst this post is commissioned to be full time (equivalent of 37.5 hours per week); the service would welcome applications from those wanting a better work-life balance. If you would like to consider this post but on less than full time hours please still apply and outline this on your application form or please contact us for further discussion.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• B.Pharm / BSc (Pharmacy) or MPharm.
• GPhC registered.
• Diploma/MSc in Clinical Pharmacy or other appropriate post-graduate qualification.
• Holds a post-graduate clinical diploma.
• Independent Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification.
• Member of the RPS.

Skills & Experience

• Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams.
• Wide previous experience (post registration) in hospital/Clinical pharmacy.
• Broad knowledge base of clinical areas.
• Experience of delivering clinical pharmacy services in a hospital setting.
• Experience of day-to-day supervision and assisting in training of pre-registration pharmacists and/or technicians.
• Experience of working within Elderly Healthcare specialities.
• Experience in undertaking, and reporting/presenting audit/research work at local (Trust) level.
• Evidence of project work completed.

Planning and organisational

• Organised, able to prioritise own work and assist others to prioritise.

Communication and relationship skills

• Good communication skills with multidisciplinary team members and own profession.
• Good interpersonal, negotiating and presentation skills, both written and verbal skills.
• Empathy with patients, relatives and pharmacy customers.
• Ability to interact with multidisciplinary teams.
• Able to defend opinions when challenged.
• Teaching skills.

Analytical and Judgement skills

• Able to assess and minimise the risk in medication process.
• Able to analyse patient specific data to advise on therapy management.
• Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, production issues, drug therapy decisions and patient information.
• Experience of analysing expenditure.

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.

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Directorate Lead Pharmacist - Integrated Care