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Job Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated, and experienced pharmacist to be part of a dynamic team working in cardiology. You will be working as part of the clinical pharmacy team to lead and support the cardiology wards at Frimley Health.
Job Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated, and experienced pharmacist to be part of a dynamic team working in cardiology. You will be working as part of the clinical pharmacy team to lead and support the cardiology wards at Frimley Health.
Although based at Frimley Park Hospital, this role will have cross-site responsibilities and leadership across the Trust.
The post holder will be responsible for providing clinical pharmacy leadership to medical, nursing, and other staff on the cardiology wards and ensure safe and cost-effective pharmaceutical care for patients. The post holder will facilitate the smooth and efficient discharge and transfer of patients through prescribing discharge prescriptions.
The post holder should have completed the clinical diploma or equivalent, and preferably Independent Prescribing and be committed to continuing professional development within the field.
The post holder must have hospital pharmacy experience involving clinical pharmacy skills as well teaching skills. The role requires the ability to work effectively as part of a team, through excellent communication and interpersonal skills as well as the ability to motivate themselves and others. To be successful in this application the post holder must demonstrate confidence as a senior clinical pharmacist and be a role model to more junior staff.
Main duties of the job
Under the direction of the Principal Pharmacists for Medicine and the Clinical Pharmacy Manager, the post holder will:
* Work closely with cardiology colleagues to improve the delivery of pharmaceutical care and the Medicine Optimisation agenda to the cardiology patients.
* Provide ward pharmacy services to the cardiology wards.
* To undertake audit, service improvement projects and review clinical practices to affect positive change in medicines management.
* Liaise closely with the cardiology pharmacist at the Wexham Park site to share best practice.
* To provide a clinical service to cardiology clinics and ward rounds at FHFT (at various sites) including, but not limited to:
o Heart Failure Clinics
o Cardio-Oncology Service Clinics
o Endocarditis Ward Rounds
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
* To promote and ensure safe, clinically and cost-effective drug prescribing and administration to cardiology wards at Frimley Health NHS Trust.
* To attend and pro-actively take part in ward rounds (e.g. endocarditis) and clinical meetings as appropriate.
* To maintain a high profile in the clinical specialty and provide education and training to multi-disciplinary groups.
* To work within an area of practice as an independent prescriber in accordance with the Trust’s non-medical prescribing policy. To fulfil this role within the individual’s area of competence, including medicines reconciliation on admission and prescribing on discharge. This will include prescribing for MCAs (Multi-compartment aids) on FP10s for supply by Community Pharmacists.
* To be willing to undergo further training to deliver enhanced clinical services (e.g. assessment and diagnosis of minor ailments) if considered appropriate
* To provide cover and support to the other pharmacists working within cardiology, and the wider Pharmacy department.
* To act as tutor for the Clinical Diploma Pharmacists, and to take an active role in the training of Trainee Pharmacists.
* To supervise MMTs, working collaboratively in the review of drug histories, patients’ own drugs and to advise on current therapy.
* To promote seamless pharmaceutical care on discharge and transfer to other wards within the Trust
Please see attached job description and person specification for more information
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Pharmacy degree (Masters level 4 years)
* Registered with GPhC
* Postgraduate clinical diploma or equivalent
* Independent Prescriber (or intention to become one)
* Evidence of Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
Desirable criteria
* MSc or higher degree
* UKCPA membership
* RPS membership
* Formal management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of producing guidelines
* Experience of producing drug appraisals
* Experience of managing staff
* Significant post-qualification experience working as a pharmacist in a clinical environment.
Desirable criteria
* Regular experience of providing clinical pharmacy support
* Clinical audit experience.
* Teaching/tutoring experience
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
* Excellent communication skills
* Applied clinical knowledge
* Ability to adapt and cope with challenges
* Organisational skills
Desirable criteria
* Excellent IT skills
* Evidence of interest in research
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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