Overview
The role of the Virtual Ward Pharmacist sits within the Calderdale Urgent Community Response Service. The service provides urgent assessment, care and intervention to support people to remain at home, avoid hospital admissions and step down from hospital to community sooner. The service accepts anyone over the age of 18 and therefore a very varied caseload of people to support, all with different needs.
Responsibilities
* Provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients in their own homes or care homes in the Calderdale and Huddersfield area as part of the Virtual Ward (VW)/Urgent Community Response Team (UCR) or the wider Community Division.
* Work seamlessly between primary and secondary care and link with a range of healthcare professionals to optimise concordance and compliance with prescribed medication.
* Review patients who are accepted to the community caseload and are registered with a GP in Calderdale or Huddersfield and may also be referred directly from CHFT staff or Gateway to Care when concerns about medication that might increase chances of admission or readmission are identified.
* Address patients on high‑risk medication or complex regimes.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rebecca Pollard Job title: Lead Virtual Ward Pharmacist Email address: rebecca.pollard@cht.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07780096734
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