Job overview
Is it time to take your clinical pharmacy skills to the next level? We have the opportunities for you! We provide local services to the Preston and Chorley areas and specialist services to Lancashire and South Cumbria. These include: Tertiary specialties: Renal, Oncology and Neurosciences. High risk areas: Neonatal, Critical Care, Respiratory Medicine, TPN. High turnover: Medical and Surgical admissions, Obstetrics and Paediatrics
Each rotation is designed to allow you to utilise your skills as a fully independent practitioner but also develop them for your specialist area under the supervision of one of our experienced senior leads. At ward level you will be supported by a medicines management technician and medicines management assistant allowing you to focus your energy on optimising the patient’s medicines throughout their stay.
Main duties of the job
Working closely with other healthcare professionals you will be an integral part of a multidisciplinary team providing the ward based clinical pharmacy service to patients of a pharmaceutically complex nature.
You will have completed or have started a Clinical Diploma with a minimum of 1 year completed and 24 months experience in hospital pharmacy. All our specialist pharmacists are given the opportunity to complete their NMP qualification.
Our pharmacy department is progressive, motivated and welcoming. There is an on-call requirement (remunerated per session), weekend and Bank Holiday work, including participation in a weekend rota.
This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career as a specialist clinical pharmacist.
Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The pharmacy department at Lancashire teaching hospital employs over 200 staff. A licensed manufacturing unit, stores and distribution with wholesale dealer's license, growing clinical trials activity and a proactive medicines management team supporting medical education make it an exciting and diverse department. The clinical pharmacy team provide the service to the wards including tertiary specialties: renal medicine, oncology, plastics, vascular, major trauma, neurology and neurosurgery. Electronic prescribing is now live in over 90% of the hospital. Out patient services are delivered by a wholly independent subsidiary.
Duties to include, but not be limited to:
1. Communicate effectively with other healthcare professionals, members of the pharmacy team and patients regarding the provision of medicines. This will include where necessary the legislation and safety of medicinal products, reporting of clinical incidents
2. Provide advice to medical, nursing and other health care professionals on the actions and uses of drugs and their safe and effective use. This will include patients with complex pharmaceutical needs.
3. Provide advice to patients and carers to enhance their understanding of their medicines and promote adherence.
4. Undertake the line management duties to support the development of more junior staff. Appraising staff as per Trust policy which will involve identifying training and development needs.
5. Take responsibility for personal Continuing Professional Development in line with department and professional guidance. This includes undertaking all mandatory training required for the role.
6. Contribute to the monitoring and evaluation clinical pharmacy services for patients admitted to own area of responsibility, and identify how these services can be improved. Develop guidelines for use in Pharmacy and the speciality to support this.
7. Support the implementation of local and national medicines-related guidance, including National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence guidelines and National Service Frameworks, within the speciality to ensure evidence-based medicine is practised.
All our band 7 pharmacists are given the opportunity to undertake the trust core management skills and develop as both a leader and line manager.
Person specification
Qualifications and Education
Essential criteria
8. MPharm or equivalent
9. Registration with the General pharmaceutical council
10. Post graduate Clinical Diploma in Clinical Pharmacy or equivalent
Desirable criteria
11. Royal Pharmaceutical Society membership.
Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
12. Recent relevant hospital pharmacy experience
13. Computer systems
14. Broad clinical pharmacy knowledge
15. Fulfilment of mandatory continuous professional development
Desirable criteria
16. Evidence of service development experience
17. Previous hospital experience