About the Role
We are seeking a Specialist Clinical Pharmacist to join our Pharmacy Department.
The ideal candidate will have recently completed their foundation training and have most job satisfaction working every day for babies, children, young people and their families.
This is an exciting opportunity to develop your career in hospital, in children's pharmacy practice.
You will work closely within the Child health MDT and the Paediatric Pharmacy team.
Key Responsibilities:
1. To provide information, advice and guidance on the safe, effective and economical use of medicines.
2. To maintain appropriate standards of service and safety; to enforce guidelines, policies and procedures to ensure standards are met.
3. To optimise medicines management by reconciling drug histories, performing medication reviews and using patients own medicines.
4. To detect, record and report adverse drug reactions to the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) and via Datix as per Trust Policy.
5. To record your clinical activity and to monitor the outcome of your advice.
6. To monitor interventions in treatment to identify training and information needs.
7. To fulfil the requirements of the Code of Ethics and Standards of Good Professional Practice.
8. To participate in CQUINs and QIPPs within the acute medical specialities.
9. To implement countywide and local prescribing strategies within the Trust.
10. Facilitate the expansion of the tools within EPMA.
11. To undertake validation duties in the dispensary.
12. To supervise, check and, if necessary, undertake the supply of medicines.
Speciality Clinical Pharmacy Role:
1. To develop expertise in paediatrics and neonatology.
2. To obtain/maintain prescribing qualification and support Consultant led ward rounds and clinics.
3. To optimise medicines through prescribing role operating within areas of competence and to support the patients journey throughout the Trust.
4. Have a working knowledge of current practice and protocols within the speciality and how these relate to national and other guidance.
5. Provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service, including enquiry answering service for speciality-related queries from other members of the pharmacy team, wards and clinics.
6. To lead and support the development and implementations of medicine related guidance, policies and procedures within speciality area.
7. To lead and support on the data collection relating to medicine use within the Child health directorate.
8. To identify new opportunities for the development of pharmacy services and assist in the preparation of business cases to support these developments.
9. To support the Lead Pharmacist Paediatrics in attending clinical governance meetings for the Child health directorate.
Management & Supervision:
1. To line manage and lead those staff allocated, undertaking appraisals, supervision and identification of training and development of their skills and knowledge.
2. To assist in the induction of staff into the service; to help identify training and development needs.
3. To maintain appropriate standards of service and safety; to enforce guidelines, policies and procedures to ensure standards are met.
4. To partake / lead in recruitment of junior pharmacists or other pharmacy staff as required.
Education & Training:
1. To attend clinical pharmacy meetings as appropriate, and education/training schemes relevant to post.
2. To take part in formal and informal training of pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals.
3. To be a supervisor on the Clinical Pharmacy Diploma course.
4. To supervise aspects of pre-registration training.
5. To provide information to patients, parents and carers on admission, discharge and in outpatient clinics regarding treatment and medication to optimise patient concordance, particularly if there is a need to overcome language barriers.
6. To maintain up-to-date clinical knowledge in clinical pharmacy and pharmacy practice to ensure a broad base of pharmaceutical knowledge, clinical reasoning and judgement.
7. To take responsibility for own personal CPD by participating in education and training programmes to improve competence.
Other Duties:
1. To undertake duties elsewhere in the locality, if required.
2. To undertake on call duties.
3. To provide a pharmacy service at weekends.