Lead Acute Medicine Pharmacist
| Posting date: | 08 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £57,888.00 to £64,880.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £57888.00 - £64880.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 August 2025 |
| Location: | Frimley, GU15 7UJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9151-25-0956 |
Summary
To promote and ensure safe and clinically effective drug prescribing and administration to acute medical wards. To work specifically on ED and the Admission Wards, providing senior clinical support to all escalation beds. To work and support with Acute Emergency Ambulatory Care Unit(AECU) providing clinical pharmacy services to all patients. To be willing to undertake training to act as an independent non-medical prescriber within this specialist area as appropriate. To fulfil this role within the individuals area of competence, including medicines reconciliation on admission and prescribing of currently prescribed medicines on discharge. This will include prescribing for MCAs (Multi-compartment aids) on FP10s for supply by Community Pharmacists. To attend and pro-actively take part in ward rounds and clinical meetings as appropriate. To maintain a high profile on the medical wards and provide education and training to multi-disciplinary groups. To supervise MMTs, working collaboratively in the review of drug histories, patients own drugs and to advise on current therapy. To promote seamless pharmaceutical care on discharge and transfer to other wards within the Trust, establishing good links with Primary Care. In particular, to explore and develop opportunities to promote the Transfer of Care agenda across the local health community. To maintain and develop formal links with Medical Consultants, medical and nursing teams and Associate Director for Medicine. To advise, evaluate and report on drug use and expenditure on acute medical wards. To review and develop clinical drug and treatment guidelines and drug policies for use within medicine To liaise between A&E, Admission wards, Ambulatory Care Unit, and other medical wards, and other ward pharmacists to ensure effective two-way communication of patient specific information. To record and analyse all pharmacist interventions made in the medical admissions wards on a regular basis. To provide relevant drug information as requested to medical, nursing and other healthcare professional staff in Medicine. To be an active member of Clinical Governance Groups relevant to medical admissions and discharges. For a full list of responsibilities please see attached job description and person specification