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Clinical Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 30 May 2024 |
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| Salary: | £43,742.00 to £50,056.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £43742.00 - £50056.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 June 2024 |
| Location: | Darlington, DL3 6HX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9439-24-0586 |
Summary
To contribute to the dispensing and preparation of Systemic Anti-Cancer Treatment to patients within the Trust. To act as an authorised Pharmacist, releasing pharmaceuticals prepared under a Section 10 exemption of the Medicines Act 1968. To provide supervision to the aseptic services unit under the direction of the Accountable Pharmacist. To support the Lead Technician and Accountable Pharmacist to ensure safe staffing levels within the aseptic unit in accordance with the capacity plan and recommended notice periods. To participate in the Aseptic Units Quality Management System. To support senior pharmacy leaders in the delivery of the pharmacy strategic plan and the medicines management strategy with particular focus on medicines reconciliation and medicines optimisation at appropriate places within the patient flow through the service. To contribute to the implementation of clinical services development. To deliver an agreed standard of medicines reconciliation as set out by the departments Medicines Reconciliation policy. To deliver an agreed standard of pharmaceutical care and medicines management to identified patients on a ward. This would include: advising nursing and medical staff regarding drug choice and drug administration (including therapeutic drug monitoring) and on local prescribing policies & guidelines; educating patients about their medication and assuring safe medication practice at all times. To liaise with primary care colleagues to implement and develop systems that improves pharmaceutical care across the primary and secondary care interface. To manage and develop the medicines management service according to the needs of the patients. To supervise other pharmacy staff involved in the delivery of the medicines management service to their specified caseload, e.g. pharmacy technicians, pre-registration pharmacists, training-grade pharmacists. This will include planning day-to-day activities of the team, monitoring and reporting on activity to ensure that services provided deliver an agreed standard of pharmaceutical care. To participate in ward rounds and provide specialist advice to nursing and medical staff regarding drug choice and drug administration (including therapeutic drug monitoring) and on local prescribing policies and guidelines. To co-ordinate a professional screen for out-patient, day case, in-patients and discharge prescriptions. To report all appropriate adverse drug reactions to the MHRA via the national reporting scheme. To continually audit own practice and identify areas for CPD. Participate and develop the research and audit activities of the department. To contribute to work published by the department. To participate in the work of the dispensary and other operational elements of the service. Dispensary duties will include the supervision of other pharmacy staff, initial checking of all prescriptions, dispensing and final checking of prescriptions and ward orders if required and the counselling of patients when issuing outpatient prescriptions. Pharmacists will also be involved in the dispensing, checking, issuing and destruction of controlled drugs in line with current legislation. To participate in, and support the work of, pharmacist-managed out-patients clinics under the supervision of a senior clinical pharmacist, or senior medical doctor. This may include acting as an Independent, non-medical prescriber. To provide high quality patient education on medicines use. This includes formal presentations to large patient groups as well as individualised information. To contribute to the education and training of pharmacy staff and other health professionals both on a one-to-one basis and through formal presentations. To act as a mentor to junior grades of staff, providing regular feedback and highlighting training opportunities. To support training-grade pharmacists to achieve the competencies set out in the Foundation Level Framework and support their learning through the clinical diploma. To review and advise on medicines policies and procedures. To support the implementation of medicines management issues identified from national and local guidelines. After appropriate training, the post holder may be required to undertake initial clinical checks and final release checks on aseptically prepared products including chemotherapy where it is appropriate to their area of clinical work or in the absence of the Senior Clinical Pharmacist (Aseptic & Cancer Services). An individual pharmacist, or a group of pharmacists, may be asked to undertake specific tasks or to take on extra responsibilities within the department to meet the needs of the directorate and for their own personal development. These may include acting as pre- registration pharmacist tutors, first aid practitioners, COSHH and Health & Safety representatives or to sit on various working groups. The duties of a pre-registration pharmacist tutor include recruitment, organisation of training programmes as well as on going supervision, objective setting and appraisal of the students. Pharmacists are involved in the administration of specific clinical trials and in the supply of clinical trial material to individual patients. To take part in the emergency out-of-hours service; this will include provision of advice to hospital staff, outside agencies and patients and carers concerning all aspects of medicines management, the supply of medication to the trust or other trusts, the sourcing of supplies of medicines not held within the department and dealing with unexpected and unpredictable requests from other hospital staff. To participate in the extended opening hours of the Pharmacy department; this may include weekend working and extended working days. To participate in the interview process for applicants applying to various positions within the directorate as appropriate.