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Clinical Pharmacist Team Leader Surgery, Alexandra hospital
| Posting date: | 14 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | £58,972.00 to £68,525.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £58972.00 - £68525.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 30 June 2024 |
| Location: | Redditch, B98 7UB |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9365-24-0269-2 |
Summary
Job Purpose: Managing, delivering, developing and providing clinical leadership for the Clinical Pharmacy service to the Surgical and Critical Care Directorates at AH, to ensure that a high quality, risk managed clinical service is provided which supports the clinical and business strategy of the Trust and complies with Medicines Legislation. Providing, delivering and evaluating pharmaceutical care to assigned speciality wards, theatres and clinical areas at AH, ensuring the delivery and development of the embedded surgical team pharmacist structure, optimising pharmacist practitioner and prescriber opportunities within both Directorates and leading on surgical/critical Care pharmacist prescribing initiatives across the whole site. Working with the Director of Pharmacy/Deputy Director of Pharmacy to create an Academic Practice Research Unit at AH to support stronger links with Schools of Pharmacy to develop a reputation for Undergraduate and Post-graduate teaching at WAHT. Over-seeing the delivery of band specific mentoring/coaching/clinical supervision to junior and senior clinical pharmacists at AH in conjunction with the CTLs for Speciality medicine & Urgent Care. Implementing changes in prescribing practice to ensure evidence-based medicine is followed using his or her specialist knowledge and expertise to advise consultants, medical, nursing and pharmacy staff on all pharmaceutical aspects of therapy to recommend, substantiate and communicate best therapeutic options for patients under the post holders care. Introducing measures to ensure drug expenditure is within agreed limits across all clinical areas of responsibility within the hospital as requested by the Director of Pharmacy/Deputy Director of Pharmacy.This will include monitoring the use and funding of new medicines for the Area Prescribing Committee (APC). Undertaking and implementing clinical audit across the Trust and within the post holders specialist area. Providing extensive specialist pharmaceutical teaching to pharmacy, medical and nursing staff Leading on the implementation of ward-based pharmacy modernisation initiatives for Surgery/Critical Care at AH and across the County through partnership working with the opposite number at WRH. Clinical Service Management responsibilities: Deliver, manage and develop the clinical pharmacy services and the clinical pharmacy team within Surgery/Critical care at AH to ensure that clinical workload is risk managed, allocated appropriately and delivers the clinical pharmacy requirements of the Trust, external users and patients. Line Manage the Specialist Clinical Pharmacists and rotational basic grade pharmacists providing Clinical Pharmacy and Medicines Management Services to given areas of responsibility. Lead the recruitment, vacancy management, job description evaluations and modifications against changing need of staff who are line managed and contribute to clinical staff recruitment/retention in tune with workforce requirements and developments of other clinical staff. Implement the departmental performance management system and ensure that all clinical pharmacy staff are performance managed, receive annual appraisals and appropriate associated development plans to deliver the pharmaceutical requirements of the Trust. Audit and evaluate the delivery of the clinical pharmacy component of external service level agreements with outside Trust and organisations as agreed. Manage, direct and guide junior clinical pharmacists, pre-registration pharmacy graduates and other pharmacy students, as allocated, in the provision of the medicines management and clinical pharmacy service to the post-holders area. Provision of Highly Specialist Clinical Practitioner Services: Function as an Independent Prescriber across Surgery/Critical Care ensuring appropriate medicines are prescribed or de-prescribed after assessment. Devise management plans for patients, ordering appropriate tests and investigations in conjunction with Consultants.This will include a requirement for recommendation to discharge or admit for further tests, treatment and care. Evaluate prescribing requirements, either making any necessary amendments to pre-admission medicines or in relation to the presenting complaint according to evidence-based practice, national/regional directives and clinical governance requirements. Provide expert advice to other health care professionals on all pharmaceutical issues arising within the specialist clinical area. Be responsible for the therapeutic blood monitoring of identified drugs within the post-holders clinical area. Be responsible for ensuring that the ward-based teams work efficiently, accurately and within their own individual job remits. To assist the Director of Pharmacy/Deputy Director of Pharmacy in developing pharmacist- run pre-op clinics at the AH as appropriate and resourced. Clinical Leadership and Functioning as a Clinical Role Model: Set standards, act as a role model and ensure that speciality pharmacists deliver best practice care, developing skills and experience to improve direct care to patients according to individual need so that patients obtain the most benefit from their medicines. To provide highly specialised evidence based medicines advice where appropriate to ensure safe, effective, economical and timely use of medicines. To communicate highly complex medicinal and financial information effectively to healthcare professionals. Financial Responsibilities: Regularly monitoring the cost of the AH clinical pharmacy service to ensure it does not exceed the allocated service budget including any expenditure on locum pharmacists or other temporary staff. Advising and guiding Consultants on new drug use within the post-holders area.Responsible for jointly compiling new product assessments and evidence-based reviews with lead clinicians on behalf of the Directorate to facilitate the optimisation of pharmaceutical care within an identified drugs budget. Service Development, Business planning and Practice-based Research: Developing formal links with the Clinical Director, Business Manager, Modern Matron and Ward managers in relation to the pharmaceutical needs of the post holders specialist area.Creating and agreeing the pharmacy service development plan for Surgery/Critical Care, leading regular review meetings with Lead Consultants and Modern Matrons to evaluate progress and identify direction and focus of pharmacy resources and service. Leading on the creation, implementation and audit of clinical guidelines relating to all areas of medicines use within the post-holders area.To facilitate unified consultant opinion on the treatment of specialist clinical conditions where appropriate, ensuring a best practice approach to key groups of patients. Creating guidelines on the use of unlicensed medicines or licensed medicines used in an unlicensed way where standard information is not available, within the specialist post-holders area and to assist the pharmacy department. Ensuring the pharmaceutical needs of Directorates are identified and directorate reports and policies are produced accordingly on all aspects of medicines use. Ensuring regular ward and directorate analyses and reports are prepared on all aspects of medicines use within post-holders area using the Pharmacy Computer System and Microsoft Office. Leading on key pharmacy modernisation initiatives within the AH and across the Trust in partnership with the other CTLs and assessing the impact of such service development initiatives on medical and nursing staff within the post-holders area and the pharmacy department as a whole. Contributing to the senior clinical team strategy group in planning and organising the delivery, standard and modernisation of clinical pharmacy services across the Trust. Education, Training and CPD: Creating, delivering and developing extensive specialist teaching to medical and nursing staff as agreed, including the development and delivery of pharmaceutical induction for all new medical and nursing staff within clinical areas of responsibility. Supporting the Director of Pharmacy/Deputy Director of Pharmacy and Faculty in establishing an academic practice unit at WAHT, delivering quality teaching and training to both pharmacy undergraduates and postgraduates to establish WAHT as a centre of excellence for pharmacist training and education. Identifying development requirements for the pharmacist team for surgery, critical care, theatres & Anaesthetics at AH, ensuring that training required is identified in the departmental Directorate training plan and funding assigned. Ensuring that team pharmacists undertaking a post-graduate clinical diploma or MSc are enrolled appropriately and within Trust study leave rules and policy. Improving Diversity and Inclusive Recruitment: As part of the Trust's aim to improve diversity across the Trust, positive action is being taken and all applications for this post from BAME, Disabled and LGBT+ candidates can request to be considered under an expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme if they meet the minimum criteria as specified in the person specification for this role. Applicants will be prompted in the application form to declare if they wish to be considered under this expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, and their response would be visible to the Shortlisting Panel. If you have any queries about expanded Guaranteed Interview Scheme, please contact Rob Saunders (HR Manager - Recruitment) in confidence via email robert.saunders1@nhs.net.