Overview
To provide the prescribing pharmacy role in the Rapid Titration Heart Failure offering from the Nottinghamshire Healthcare Community Heart Failure Teams. To act as a clinical role model for pharmacists and other members of the MDT involved in the care of patients with cardiovascular conditions. Please refer to the attached job description for a more detailed summary of role expectation.
Responsibilities
* Deliver pharmaceutical services to acute and/or specialist medicine patients
* Deliver pharmaceutical services to cardiovascular patients
* Identify and promote best practice
* Ensure delivery of the clinical governance agenda in relation to drug use
* Motivate and inspire others
* Proactively develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives
* Autonomous practitioner and experienced prescriber
* Experience of working with patients who have Heart Failure
* A full current UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010
Context and Objectives
Nottinghamshire Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust has been successful in achieving funding to provide a Rapid Titration Service Evaluation across the county. This pioneering treatment has been successfully implemented in a number of locations across the country and this service evaluation places Nottinghamshire Healthcare in the enviable position of being one of the first community locations to complete Rapid Titration. The Service Evaluation will evidence the cost effectiveness of providing this treatment and the inevitable reduction it will have on waiting lists. To support leading, delivering, developing and evaluating clinical pharmacy services to patients with cardiovascular diseases in accordance with the objectives set between the Speciality Clinical Lead, Directorate General Manager and Head of Service for Specialist Therapies. To be a role model in the field of cardiovascular diseases across the Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System.
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