Senior Pharmacist Medicines Information/ Clinical services
Senior Pharmacist Medicines Information/ Clinical services
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Nottingham, England
Job ID : 664671513253524f526f48646e5646504a773d3d
Job Description :
Band 7
- Full time
- Part time
Job overview
Senior Pharmacist – Medicines Information/Clinical Services (Part time/Full time)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic Pharmacist to join our friendly and supportive Medicines Information (MI) team within the Pharmacy Department at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust (NUH).
You will be responsible for providing a high quality clinical enquiry answering service to healthcare professionals within the Trust and to patients via our established medicines helpline.
Alongside this, you will support the Clinical Pharmacy team by delivering direct patient care at ward level and acting as a clinical role model for other staff.
Main duties of the job
In addition to providing a high quality clinical enquiry answering service, you will be actively involved in training and supporting our junior rotational staff and will have the opportunity to participate in service improvement projects.
The medicines information component of this post will be 0.5 WTE and for the clinical services component, we will consider 0.1 to 0.5 WTE.
You will be an experienced pharmacist with excellent communication and organisational skills and the desire to provide a high quality, safe, effective and efficient service to our patients.
Working for our organisation
Our friendly and supportive Medicines Information team comprises lead pharmacists, senior medicines information pharmacists, rotational band 6 pharmacists and a specialist pharmacy technician.
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest acute teaching hospital Trusts. We have achieved a national and international reputation for many of our specialist services including stroke, renal, neurosciences, cancer services and trauma and are at the forefront of many research programmes
We want you to be proud to be part of the NUH team.
The pharmacy department is forward thinking and constantly implementing innovative ways of working to deliver the best possible patient care. We continue to extend the ideal model of delivering medicines optimisation and pharmaceutical care where pharmacists are fully integrated into the medical teams, supported by a team of medicines management technicians and assistants.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Medicines Information
Provide evaluated medicines information and advice from a variety of sources including clinical trials and published literature to pharmacy, medical and nursing staff, allied healthcare professionals and members of the public (via the medicines helpline) at all levels to promote the safe, effective, evidence-based and economic use of medicines thus optimising individual patient therapy.
Assist in the production of proactive medicines information aimed at improving prescribing and practice, and therefore patient care both in and outside the pharmacy, through personal communication, memos and bulletins.
In conjunction with the Lead pharmacists, Medicines Information, ensure that all standard operating procedures relating to the provision of medicines information are in place and current and all resources are up to date.
Support the training and development of junior medicines information staff and Lead Technician, Medicines Information and be actively involved in checking and reviewing their enquiries where necessary.
Contribute to a peer review system and assist with the audit of enquiries in accordance with clinical governance requirements.
To support and if necessary represent the Lead pharmacists, Medicines Information in all aspects pertaining to the management of the pharmacy department’s Medicines Information service.
As part of the Medicines Information team, ensure that drug recalls and alerts received into the Trust are dealt with in a timely manner.
Maintain contact with appropriate specialists and groups both nationally and locally to enable best practice to be identified and incorporated into NUH practice.
To support the provision and update of monographs for the NHS Injectable Medicines guide.
Core Clinical duties (3.75-18.75 hours per week)
To ensure safe rational and effective prescribing by undertaking medication reconciliation, assessing suitability of prescribed medication, enabling use of patient’s own medicines and patient self-administration, counselling (to optimise medicines use), and ensuring continuity of patient care into the community.
Providing medicines for individual patients during their stay in hospital, at discharge and also for out-patient visits.
Interpreting and requesting clinical tests to monitor and make recommendations to improve effectiveness of drug therapy.
Pro-actively liaising with other members of the multidisciplinary team (medical staff, nurses, microbiologists, physiotherapists, dieticians) in order to ensure safe use of medicines.
Making recommendations about medicines to improve patient outcomes and to encourage adherence to hospital formulary and national guidelines.
Person specification
Training and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma/MSc in clinical pharmacy or other appropriate qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Wide previous experience (post registration) in hospital pharmacy
- Knowledge of medicines information resources and systems
Communication skills
Essential criteria
- Good interpersonal, negotiating and presentation skills, both written and verbal
- Good communication skills with multidisciplinary team members and own profession
Analytical and judgement skills
Essential criteria
- Critical evaluation of literature and literature searching skills for analysing, interpreting medicines information, drug therapy decisions and patient information
- Able to analyse patient specific data to advise on therapy management
Organisational skills
Essential criteria
- Organised, able to prioritise own work and assist others to prioritise.
Physical skills
Essential criteria
- Competent ICT skills, word processing, presentations, spreadsheets, databases, retrieval of information from the internet
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Bring your whole self to work for us at NUH. We love diversity and we value your difference, your unique skills, knowledge and experience. Becoming one of our people may realise your potential, helping us to raise our performance in delivering world class healthcare to the diverse patient populations we serve.
We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are currently under-represented at NUH.
Covid-19 vaccination: remains the best way to protect yourself, family, colleagues and our patients/service users from the Covid-19 virus. We continue to encourage our current and potential colleagues to get vaccinated. For helpful advice and information about the Covid-19 vaccination and how to access visit: https://nottsccg.nhs.uk/covid-19/covid-19-vaccinations/
Closing Dates: Please submit your application form as soon as possible to avoid disappointment; we reserve the right to close vacancies prior to the published closing date if we receive a sufficient number of completed application forms.
Communication: All communication related to your application will be via the email address you have provided. Please ensure you check your email account including your junk email regularly.
Easy read application: if you have a disability and find it difficult to complete our online application form, you can apply via our easy read application which you can find on the intranet https://www.nuh.nhs.uk/easy-read-job-application
Salary: The quoted salary will be on a pro rata basis for part time workers.
Disability Confidence: All applicants who have declared a disability and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted.
At Risk of redundancy: NHS employees within the East Midlands who are ‘at risk’ of redundancy will be given a preferential interview where they meet the essential criteria of the person specification.
Skilled Workers Visa: We welcome applications from individuals who require a skilled worker visa in line with the Home Office regulations. NON-UK/NON SETTLED candidates may not be appointed, if a suitably qualified and skilled UK/SETTLED candidate is successful at interview stage as it is unlikely that the Trust is able to satisfy the Home Office Visa requirements
ID and Right to work checks: NUH authenticate all ID and right to work documentation such as passports, visa’s and driving license through a system called Trust ID. NUH will scan your ID and right to work documentation in to the Trust ID system at your face to face ID appointment. The system will run a check against the key security features within your documentation. The system will provide us with an outcome of your check which will be stored securely on your personal file along with all other pre-employment check documentation.
Consent:
- Transfer of information: If I have previous NHS service - I consent to the transfer of my Electronic Staff Record (ESR) data between this and other NHS Trusts. I also consent to the Occupational Health Department confidentially accessing my occupational health records from my current or previous employer in order to check the status of my vaccinations, immunisations s and screening tests as relevant to the post. I understand this is an automated process and the information will only be used for these purposes prior to me taking up the position at NUH.
- Disclosure and Barring Service: Your post maybe subject to a DBS check which incur a cost dependent on the level of check required (£41.90 for enhanced and £21.90 for standard). I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check if it is required (by deduction from first month’s pay). Should I decide to withdraw from my job offer, I agree to reimburse Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust the cost of the DBS check undertaken by cheque or other agreed method.
Company Details :
Name : Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
CEO : Amanda Pritchard
Headquarter : London, United Kingdom
Revenue : $5 to $25 million (USD)
Size : 10000+ Employees
Type : Government
Primary Industry : Insurance Carriers
Sector Name : Insurance
Year Founded : 1946
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