Specialist Pharmacist Women & Children | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 23 May 2024 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £51,488 - £57,802 per annum incl. HCAS pro rata |
| Oriau: | Full time |
| Dyddiad cau: | 22 June 2024 |
| Lleoliad: | London, SW10 9NH |
| Cwmni: | Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Permanent |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 6338456/289-CSS-1484-A |
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This is a fantastic opportunity for a pharmacist to work within our highly specialised Women’s and Children’s team at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital covering a wide range of different specialties (including NICU, Paediatric HDU, Paediatric Gastroenterology, NICU and paediatric TPN, as well as complex maternity and gynaecology patients).
There will be training given for the provision of tailored parenteral nutrition and training/supervision for involvement in guideline production, financial reporting and other core directorate work.
This is an ideal opportunity for a pharmacist who is keen to build on their women's and children's experience, as well as their management skills to help the ongoing development of a patient focused clinical pharmacy service to help meet the changing needs of the organisation.
To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients within the Women and Children’s
Directorate to ensure the safe, effective, legal and accurate use of medicines within the speciality and
to support and supervise less experienced pharmacists on rotation.
The post holder must be organised, efficient and be able to provide operational and professional support to the Women's and children's lead clinical pharmacist in order to provide a high quality, efficient pharmacy service to patients and staff within Chelsea & Westminster Hospital. To provide training and supervision to pre -registration and rotational pharmacists rotating through Women's and Children's services.
To provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients within the Women & Children’s Directorate ensuring the safe, effective, legal and accurate use of medicines within the speciality.
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provide services from two main hospitals, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital, and a number of clinics across London and the South-East.
We have nearly 7,000 members of staff that arePROUD to Carefor nearly one million people.
Both hospitals provide full clinical services, including full maternity, emergency and children’s, in addition to a range of community-based services across London, such as award-winning sexual health and HIV clinics.
We’re one of the best performing Trusts in the country. We’re also one of the top trusts to work for – our staff says they’re engaged, motivated, and would recommend us as a place to work and receive treatment.
Our Trust has been rated by the Care Quality Commission as ‘Good’ in all five of the main domains of safe, effective, caring, responsive and well-led, giving an us overall rating of ‘Good’. We’ve also been awarded an
‘Outstanding’ rating for ‘use of resources’ by an NHS Improvement inspection.
Our facilities are some of the best in the country. We have been investing significant Capital year on year in our estate.
We have recently completed a £30m expansion of our adult and neonatal critical care facilities at Chelsea and Westminster and are planning an ambitious £60m development of an Ambulatory Diagnostics Centre at West Middlesex.
1. Clinical Practice
To act as a clinical role model for junior pharmacists and demonstrate the ability to provide safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of medicines in all patients within Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
• Be responsible and accountable for the clinical pharmacy service provided to a sub-specialty within the Women & Children’s Directorate on a rotational basis.
• Review prescriptions for accuracy and legality and identify actual or potential problems.
• Ensure the effective supply of medicines suitable for use as an inpatient and appropriately labelled for discharge if applicable.
• Ensure the effective outcomes of treatment with medicines.
• Monitor patients for potential and actual adverse effects of their medicines.
• Take steps to ensure patients understand the purpose of their medicines and deal with any practical issues that may prevent the optimal use of their medicines.
• Support the planning of patient discharge with respect to medication, including the transcription of requests for dispensing.
• Demonstrate professional accountability to patients.
• Liaise with the Lead Directorate Pharmacist to provide and develop clinical pharmacy services to the Directorate including ward pharmacy and medicines management.
• Aim to provide safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in the patients as allocated.
• Make appropriate referrals where necessary; ensure the clear and effective communication of patients’ pharmaceutical needs to other pharmacists and health care professionals both within the trust and in other health care environments.
• Demonstrate and apply general pharmaceutical knowledge, and where applicable, specialist clinical pharmacy knowledge in core areas in order to plan, manage, monitor and review therapeutic programmes for patients allocated, thereby ensuring the quality of patient care.
• Work across traditional boundaries, including the transcription of discharge medication.
• Participate in multidisciplinary ward rounds for the Neonatal Unit, Paediatrics and others within the directorate where appropriate, to integrate into the multidisciplinary team and raise the pharmacy profile via contributions at consultant level.
• Provide and be competent to formulate and assure stability of parenteral nutrition solutions for neonatal, paediatric and adolescent patients.
• Demonstrate appropriate clinical reasoning and judgement.
• Be readily available and keen to answer any general medicine related pharmaceutical queries from patients, pharmacists and other members of staff within pharmacy as well as from other health care professionals including medical staff.
• Proactively provide advice and information on any pharmaceutical issues within the Women & Children’s directorate to pharmacy staff and other healthcare professionals as needed.
• Demonstrate awareness and commitment to the Trust’s Clinical Governance Agenda.
• Support the maintenance and development of Medication Management Initiatives including use of patients own medicines and self-medication.
This advert closes on Thursday 6 Jun 2024