Advanced Clinical Pharmacist – Rheumatology | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £50,952 - £57,349 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2024 |
| Location: | Oxford, OX3 7LD |
| Company: | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6139491/321-NOTSS-6139491-B8 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust for a pharmacist with drive and enthusiasm to join our dynamic rheumatology pharmacy team supporting our service to patients with rheumatology conditions.
This exciting post promises to bring opportunities and challenges working within a dedicated and national award-winning Rheumatology team. This post also provides excellent access to multidisciplinary team, opportunity to develop leadership and negotiating skills and to participate in outpatient clinics providing highly specialist services to a defined group of patients.
The successful candidate will need to be an experienced pharmacist that has worked across a variety of clinical areas and has a desire to specialise in Rheumatology. You will have experience in good service delivery and management, a proven track record of delivering change within dynamic environments, excellent communication skills, experience of supervising other staff and providing education and training.
This post will provide the successful candidate an opportunity to develop their clinical and project management skills as well as build collaborative working relationships with rheumatology clinicians and colleagues in primary care. Non-medical prescriber qualification is essential and previous experience with immunomodulatory medications would be beneficial.
Key aspects of the role include:
• Providing prescribing advice and support to medical and nursing staff in outpatient clinics and at ward level
• Educating patients about their medicines both over the phone and in an outpatient setting
• Making clinical decisions about adverse drug reactions or abnormal blood results relating to DMARDs
• Developing a clinical pharmacy service within the clinical area and Trust and monitoring outcomes of contributions
• Collaborative development of medicines related policies e.g. shared care protocols
• Involvement in the clinical commissioning of high-cost medications
• Participate in and lead where required on novel pharmacy projects in relation to homecare medicines
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trustis one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country.
As a pharmacy department we have a strong clinical presence on all four Hospital sites and provide a comprehensive range of pharmaceutical care and extended roles. The post is based at the NHS Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre, a specialist hospital renowned for providing excellent orthopaedic and rheumatology care to patients within and outside Oxfordshire.
Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.
Many of our recruitment programmes use Value Based Interviewing to identify those who have the skills we seek, who share our values and who are able to deliver compassionate excellence from the outset. We know that this makes a significant difference to your job satisfaction and above all the outcomes and experience of our patients and their families. For more information about our Values and Value Based Interviewing please visit www.ouh.nhs.uk/about/vision-and-values
• Actively participate as a member of the rheumatology MDT on ward rounds, clinical meetings or outpatient clinics as appropriate to provide pharmaceutical advice to prescribers and other health care professionals.
• To maintain a clinical expertise and develop In Rheumatology as appropriate and in accordance with the Trust and Pharmacy strategies. You will be providing and receiving highly complex information often in situations where there may be barriers to understanding. Requirement to communicate highly complex medicine related information to prescribers, clinicians, patients: patients may have language difficulties, physical or mental disabilities and other professionals may challenge advice.
• Demonstrate required skills and knowledge for analysing drug, patient specific information in clinical rheumatology to provide advice on medicines, dosages, formulations and production issues. May also have to make decisions in areas where information is lacking, and medical or other opinion differs.
• Ensure compliance with the British Society of Rheumatology guidance and regional Shared Care Protocols in patients who have recently initiated treatment on DMARDs or have undergone a change to therapy, by reviewing patients as part of a pharmacist-led consultation.
• Develop policies and procedures relating to rheumatology therapies.
• Report and investigate adverse medication incidents related to rheumatology.
• Assist with screening of biologic and immunomodulatory prescriptions, utilising monitoring systems such as BlueTeq to ensure compliance with NICE and commissioning guidelines.
• Provide specialised professional and technical education and training to enable the clinical units to meet high standards of patient care and safety, e.g. proactive development of guidelines and patient counselling tools, participation in clinical meetings/teaching sessions.
• Routinely review, update or develop rheumatology shared care protocols in conjunction with the rheumatology team and ICB to ensure safe and effective prescribing in both primary and secondary care
This advert closes on Tuesday 28 May 2024