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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To lead, provide and develop comprehensive clinical pharmacy service for patients at UHCW NHS Trust attending multidisciplinary team meetings and speciality forums as required.
* As a key member of the multidisciplinary team provide strategic guidance on clinical pharmacy issues and provide professional pharmacy leadership.
* To practice as an expert practitioner, providing advice to patients, healthcare professionals and other agencies relating to the pharmaceutical aspects of stroke, neurology and neurosurgery.
* Proactively influence safe and cost-effective medicines use with other senior clinical staff within stroke. This will include new drug and device evaluations, financial reporting and development of policies.
* Identify areas where improvements in both quality and cost effectiveness of pharmaceutical care and prescribing may be encouraged.
* Work with senior staff in your areas to review and develop policies and procedures to ensure safe and effective handling of medications. Ensure policies and procedures comply with existing legal requirements, best practice, national and local guidelines and Health Care Commission Requirements.
* Undertake risk management and develop audits/policies relating to supply, storage, prescribing and administration of medicines and other pharmaceuticals.
* Advise on the appropriate prescribing and monitoring of anticoagulation for stroke patients, including the counselling of these medications to stroke patients.
* Lead, develop and deliver education and training in the pharmaceutical aspects of stroke and neurosciences to other healthcare professionals. This will include trainee pharmacists and diploma students.
* To encourage and cultivate an environment of clinical and practice-based research and audit. To contribute to current and future research and audit projects associated with the use of drugs within your specialist area(s).
Person specification
Qualifications
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Experience
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Knowledge
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Skills
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Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours
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To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust's Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust's Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust's Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.
The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.
In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests).
UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.
If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we'll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.
We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID.
Depending on your level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.
All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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