Details:
- Salary: £30 - 36.50 - Hour
- Job Type: Contract
- Job Status: Full-Time
- Salary Per: Hour
- Location: Salisbury Wiltshire
- Date: 1 week ago
Description:
PURPOSE OF JOB:
To provide clinical services to a number of specialties- including (but not limited to) Paediatrics, Medicine & Surgery
To support the provision of service to the Dispensary, including screening and checking
The provision of a clinical pharmacy service to patients within the specialist areas
To act as a role model in the field of clinical pharmacy practice and provide a consistently high standard of clinical service in line with the pharmacy objectives.
KEY TASKS & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Working in various specialist areas:
To work closely with the Lead Pharmacists, clinicians, nursing staff and other senior managers to develop pharmaceutical services to patients within the relevant directorates.
Provide a clinical pharmacy service to specialised areas and a clinical pharmacy service to cover other areas when ward cover is needed. The service includes:
assessing pharmaceutical care needs
initiating and carrying out care plans
medicines reconciliation and optimisation
review for need of drug therapies, selection of appropriate drug therapies / doses / modification of existing therapies
advice to doctors / other health care staff
discharge planning
counselling patients
attending ward rounds as per departmental requirements e.g. post-take, Falls review, which may involve flexibility of start / finish time
The service is according to departmental procedures and meets the minimum
standards agreed with the Clinical Pharmacy Manager. The service provided will take current legislation into account.
To work with clinicians and nurses to implement and monitor the use of protocols within the specialist area to ensure the safe use and supply of medicines. This includes advice to nursing staff concerning the safe and appropriate use and storage of medication.
To evaluate, plan and implement service developments to improve the quality of the pharmacy service to the specialist area.
To ensure that drugs utilised within FHFT reflect the recommendations, the policies and formulary of Frimley Health and those of tertiary centres. To increase economic awareness within the area through directorate financial reports and to advise on cost effective prescribing.
To support the production of drug evaluations for the Area Prescribing Committee as requested by the Prescribing Manager. To make recommendations to the directorate concerning the introduction and use of new drugs.
To participate in pharmacy practice research and clinical audit activities.
To provide professional support to the pharmacy homecare team
If qualified, to be an active independent pharmacy prescriber, in line with Trust guidelines and current legislation.
Staff Training & Development
To deliver education and training to doctors and nurses and other staff as necessary. This will include doctors, nurses, medical students and PAMs. This training may be ward based, tutorials or through presentations.
Contribute to the departmental Continual Professional Development (CPD) program and to undertake CPD as required by the GPhC
To participate in training and development activities as are considered appropriate by the Chief Pharmacist to keep up to date with advances in the service.
Other Duties
To assist in the provision of outpatient and inpatient dispensary services as and when required. This includes clinical screening, labelling, dispensing, final accuracy checking of medication and patient medication counselling, as well as dealing with professional queries within the dispensary