To provide a highly specialist patient focused technical pharmacy service to inpatient wards and community teams within the North London NHS Foundation Trust.
The post-holder will work at Chase Farm Pharmacy to provide a quality medicines optimisation service. This will include the assessment of patient’s own drugs, medicines reconciliation, transcribing, consultations with patients about their medicines and coordinating the supply of discharge medication.
The post-holder required to cover Edgware Community Hospital as needed and other trust wide sites.
Responsibilities
* Supporting the Lead Pharmacist in delivering the medicines optimisation agenda.
* Visiting wards to facilitate medicines reconciliation for new admissions.
* Providing advice on medicines to patients and carers.
* Assessing patients’ own medicines for use during the inpatient stay (POD checks).
* Transcribing details of required medicines from inpatient drug charts to requisition sheets via the ePMA system.
* Providing discharge medication counselling and discharge medication service referral.
* Practice supervision of trainees (PTPTs and trainee pharmacists) on the wards/units including supporting ward-based training, monitoring training logs completion and supporting the administration of summative assessments.
* Helping to ensure that all activities within the area of work comply with departmental standard operating procedures which will help to develop and/or review.
* The promotion of clinical governance through ward/team-based clinical audits.
Why choose to join the North London NHS Foundation Trust?
We believe that by working together, our Trust can achieve more for the residents of North Central London and our patients than we can by working apart.
Our Five-Year Strategy
* We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
* With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all.
* We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
* We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
Why NLFT?
* Transforming and creating a positive environment for our service users, staff and visitors.
* We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
* We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
* NHS Discounts, generous annual leave allowance and NHS pension scheme.
* We have excellent internal staff network support groups.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Srinath Bejjenki Job title: Lead Technician for Education & Training Email address: srinath.bejjenki@nhs.net Telephone number: 0208 702 4994
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