Specialist Pharmacist - Proactive Frailty & Complex Care Team
| Posting date: | 28 April 2025 |
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| Salary: | £51,883.00 to £58,544.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £51883.00 - £58544.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 May 2025 |
| Location: | Islington, N7 8GG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9220-25-0310 |
Summary
1. To be responsible for maintaining a personal high standard of clinical practice. 2. To maintain and develop knowledge of evidence-based practice and own competencies through CPD activities (e.g. peer review, in-service training, journal club, external courses), maintaining a portfolio, which reflects personal development in line with GPhC. 3. To use clinical information to help inform clinical decision making, bringing together a range of complex information to formulate diagnoses or care plans. 4. To work within any professional or Trust clinical guidelines, maintain knowledge of current clinical practice and of national and local standards, and to ensure own and colleagues safe and competent practice. 5. To develop treatment goals/care plans, working in partnership with patients, their families or carers and other members of the multi-disciplinary team, and to communicate these effectively. 6. To have a working understanding of the Mental Capacity Act and be confident in assessing a persons capacity to make decisions relating to their medications. (Support will be provided for training if needed). 7. To use verbal and non-verbal communication skills to communicate complex or sensitive information in a way that patients and others can understand, overcoming barriers to communication e.g. cognitive problems, language barriers, and using motivational skills to ensure participation. 8. To maintain accurate clinical records in accordance with Trust and professional standards, and to ensure that staff in the team maintain clinical records to these standards. 9. To provide verbal and written reports as required, for people both internal and external to the organisation. 10. To be responsible for updating and developing patient medication assessment, treatment and monitoring tools when required. 11. To provide clinical advice and to make recommendations on prescribing issues to patients GPs and hospital clinicians in accordance with local policy and guidelines and the requirements of medicines legislation. 12. To provide relevant education and training to Whittington staff.