Job description

Job responsibilities

General Practice

• Be responsible and accountable for the clinical pharmacy service provided to the sub specialities listed above within the Medicine Directorate.
• Review prescriptions for accuracy and legality and identify actual or potential problems.
• Ensure the effective supply of medicines suitable for use as an inpatient and appropriately labelled for discharge if applicable.
• Ensure the effective outcomes of treatment with medicines.
• Monitor patients for potential and actual adverse effects of their medicines.
• Take steps to ensure patients understand the purpose of their medicines and deal with any practical issues that may prevent the optimal use of their medicines.
• Support the planning of patient discharge with respect to medication, including the transcription of requests for dispensing.
• Demonstrate professional accountability to patients.
• To act as a clinical role model within medicine and demonstrate the ability to provide high quality, safe, clinically effective and cost efficient use of drugs in these patients.
• Provide highly specialist pharmaceutical care to patients including medication reconciliation on admission, at discharge, and medication review during inpatient stay.
• Participate in ward rounds to integrate into the multidisciplinary team and raise the pharmacy profile via contributions at consultant level.
• Manage the allocated patients medication and make appropriate referrals.
• Manage difficult and ambiguous problems.
• Demonstrate a whole-system patient-focused approach.
• Demonstrate advanced level of clinical reasoning and judgement.
• Communicate highly complex issues in all areas of work including communication with medicine patients, patients having language difficulties and patients with physical and mental disabilities.
• Manage pharmaceutical care issues in palliative patients in a sensitive and empathetic way.
• Effectively deal with supply issues and liaise with the buying office as necessary in order to maintain necessary medication.
• Support all clinical staff in the use of medicines outside of the product licence (off label) and unlicensed medicines in the directorate in order to ensure that all medication use is of a high quality and safe.
• Develop recognition as a national and/or international pharmacy expert within the chosen medical speciality.
• Make appropriate referrals where necessary; ensure the clear and effective communication of patients pharmaceutical needs to other pharmacists and health care professionals both within the trust and in other health care environments

Leadership

• Identify and promote best practice in medication use.
• Act as a role model for trainee pharmacists, specialist and junior pharmacists in their Medicine rotation.
• Ensure delivery of the clinical governance agenda in relation to drug use in medicine in order to minimise the number of drug related incidents.
• Motivate and inspire others (both within pharmacy and the directorate) in order to create and maintain a good working environment and facilitate staff retention.
• Proactively develop clinical pharmacy services in line with local and national objectives.
• Demonstrate innovation in the highly specialised chosen field within medicine pharmacy practice.
• Work collaboratively with pharmacy and medical staff, the multidisciplinary team and management in the natural agenda for pharmacy services in accordance with the agreed objectives.
• Represent the Trust at appropriate medical speciality external meetings in order to network and share knowledge and experience with other pharmacists at a national level.
• Deputise for the Lead Divisional Pharmacist medicine when required.

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Person Specification

Education and Qualificiation

Essential

• Registered as a practicing pharmacist with the General Pharmaceutical Council
• Diploma in Pharmacy Practice or equivalent training
• Independent Prescriber or currently working towards IP

Desirable

• ICH GCP Training
• Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) faculty membership
• Postgraduate qualifications in Medical specialities

Experience

Essential

• Relevant and extensive post registration ward pharmacy experience including in medicine and surgery specialist areas
• Recent experience as a specialist clinical pharmacist in medicine or surgery, able to demonstrate a high level of competency e.g. equivalent to achieving Mastery in the majority of competencies within the Advanced Level Competency Framework
• Variety of clinical practice to include Acute Medicine and Surgery rotations
• Supervision of pharmacy staff in training
• Completion of clinical audit(s)

Desirable

• Meets the necessary GPhC requirements in order to undertake role of GPhC Trainee pharmacist Tutor
• Support in the education and training of hospital staff outside of pharmacy

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website .

Employer details

Employer name

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Address

West Middlesex Hospital

Twickenham Road

Isleworth

TW7 6AF