University Hospital Wishaw
Split post
This is a split post with HEPMA and clinical duties in frailty service - full clinical duties as per job description including prescribing.
The Role
To provide a safe and effective patient focused specialist clinical pharmacy service to a specified patient group(s) supporting medicines governance and quality improvement activities within specialist area(s) to ensure safe, effective and patient-centred systems in place.
Additional Information Specific to the Role HEPMA (Hospital Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration)
The HEPMA team supports clinicians in all three Lanarkshire acute hospitals (University Hospitals Wishaw, Monklands and Hairmyres) and the off-site beds in NHS Lanarkshire.
The post holder is responsible for supporting the completion of roll out to remaining specialist areas including paediatrics and outpatients.
Subsequent maintenance of HEPMA across NHS Lanarkshire hospitals including:
1. Work with other members of the HEPMA team to provide training, ongoing system maintenance and analysis of HEPMA data.
2. Undertaking research and complex audits to evaluate benefits realisation on an ongoing basis.
3. Participation in the HEPMA on call rota.
To support HEPMA systems to develop practice
4. To support the evaluation of the contribution of electronic prescribing to patient care.
5. To support the development, delivery and management of the implementation and maintenance of the clinical aspects of HEPMA.
6. To support the ongoing research, development and evaluation of HEPMA.
Additional Information Specific to the Role Frailty
To contribute to the care of patients admitted to the Frailty Unit including provision of pharmaceutical care, medication advice and prescribing.
This exciting new role will contribute to the seven-day Frailty Service within UHW to ensure patients receive high quality pharmaceutical care. The post holder will become an integrated member of the consultant-led multidisciplinary team, liaising with primary care, hospital and community colleagues. There is a requirement for the post holder to be an established practicing independent prescriber due to the complexities of patients presenting with frailty as both prescribing and de-prescribing will be an integral part of this role.
The post holder will contribute to developing the clinical governance agenda and associated systems for medicines use within the service. This will include but limited to:
7. Provide pharmaceutical advice for staff working within frailty
8. As part of a rota provide clinical pharmacy cover over weekends and public holidays.
9. Undertake quality improvement initiatives and where appropriate liaising with key stakeholders
10. Facilitate and support processes for medicines communication at the interfaces of care e.g. On discharge from a hospital ward or discharge to the care of the virtual ward or General Practice via an immediate discharge letter
11. Liaise with relevant health and social care services as it applies to medicines e.g. social work, acute hospital departments, General Practice, NHSL acute pharmacy services (including off site beds), Community Pharmacy and other key stakeholders.
12. Delivery of relevant pharmacotherapy activities e.g. medicines reconciliation, education and quality improvement.
13. Participation in multidisciplinary consultant led ward rounds
There will be a focus on optimal use of medicines to ensure a patient focused, efficient progressive, resilient, safe and effective service to frailty.
NHS Lanarkshire
Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!
Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.
We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.
What we'll need you to bring
14. Masters of Pharmacy Degree
15. Registered member of General Pharmaceutical Council
16. Independent prescribing qualification or must work towards
17. Evidence of postgraduate training and professional development in clinical pharmacy practice e.g. Post Registration Foundation Framework/ 1st year clinical diploma
18. Relevant post registration experience in clinical pharmacy.
19. Ability to effectively monitor patients therapeutic regimens in order to ensure effectiveness and reduce toxicity
20. Ability to work effectively as part of a team, in a pharmacy and multi-disciplinary environment.
21. Commitment to revalidation as per directions of General Pharmaceutical Council
22. Good verbal and written communication skills
23. Self-motivation
24. Participation in weekends and public holiday service
25. Participation in pharmacy emergency duty service
26. Willingness to contribute to the general working of the pharmacy department.
27. Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.
It would be great if you also have
28. Demonstrable experience in providing a clinical pharmacy service to a defined patient group
29. Experience in patient information/education
30. Experience in supervising staff
31. Clinical pharmacy/care planning knowledge and understanding
32. Proven project, practice research and audit skills
33. Ability to prioritise and organise workload
Contract type
34. Permanent
35. Full time
36. 37 hours
Location and Working Pattern
This role will be based in Pharmacy within University Hospital Wishaw,
The working pattern for this role 5/7.
Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.
Looking to find out more?
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