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Senior Pharmacist-Dermatology, Immunology, Rheumatology & Transition
| Posting date: | 19 June 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: | 07 July 2024 |
| Location: | Nottingham, NG7 2UH |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9164-24-1560 |
Summary
Please refer to the job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake . To provide a specialist Pharmacy Service to the Transfer of Care Unit and to the specialist areas: Clinical Immunology, Rheumatology and Dermatology. To ensure safe, rational and effective prescribing by undertaking medication reconciliation, assessing suitability of prescribed medication, enabling use of patients own medicines and patient self-administration, counselling (to optimise medicines use), and ensuring continuity of patient care on leaving hospital. To ensure patients receive the best pharmaceutical care throughout their stay by ensuring care plans continue to be reviewed, along with managing complex multimorbidity and potentially inappropriate polypharmacy. To support with proactive assessment of patient adherence and ability to manage medicines prior to discharge; working with patients as partners ensuring their autonomy where possible. To improve the quality of discharge communications between secondary and primary care (community pharmacies and general practice) and to care homes and to actively identify and/or refer patients to benefit from a targeted MUR post discharge to a community pharmacy. With support of the Highly Specialist Pharmacists, manage on-going pharmaceutical care needs of patients being maintained on drug treatment for Rheumatological, Immunological and Dermatological conditions. To support with the clinical screening of cDMARDs, biologics and more specialist Rheumatology infusions . To provide support with clinical screening specialist drugs used within Clinical Immunology and Allergy for the management of conditions such as chronic spontaneous urticaria, hereditary angioedema, severe allergy, auto inflammatory and immunodeficiency conditions. To support the Clinical Immunology and Allergy Highly Specialist Pharmacist in delivering a pharmacy service to the Drug Allergy Testing and Challenge clinics within NUH. To support with Quality Improvement Project work focused to improve patient flow and timely discharges for Medically Stable for Discharge patients. To partake in clinical pharmacy duties ensuring core clinical pharmacy activities are undertaken in the relevant clinical specialties. This includes a prescribing role when qualified. To make recommendations about medicines to improve patient outcomes and to encourage adherence to hospital formulary and national guidelines. To line manage and support more junior pharmacists and pharmacy technicians. To facilitate or conduct clinical audits which are part of the pharmacy audit plan that are suitable for presentation at a local level. To take full part in the 7 day shifted rota and bank holidays duties. We operate a 7day working model; the post-holder will contribute to the senior on-call rota providing back-up support to the on-call pharmacist. All of our dispensaries are pharmacist-free and technician led, so there are no operational commitments. Whilst this post is commissioned to be full time (equivalent of 37.5 hours per week); the service would welcome applications from those wanting a better work life balance. If you would like to consider this post but on less than full time hours please still apply and outline this on your application form or please contact us for further discussion.