clinical pharmacist London, England
Job description
To co-ordinate, manage and lead on the provision and development of a high quality comprehensive clinical pharmacy service to patients receiving care in the Community Hospitals under the leadership of the Lead Pharmacist for Bedded Services To provide support and guidance to Medicine Management Pharmacy Technicians and Community Hospital Pharmacists working within the Bedded Services team. To plan and organise patient facing workload for the Bedded Services team in accordance with the requirements of the Community Hospitals, ensuring patient safety, supply of medication in a timely efficient manner, making effective clinical decisions and having a clear understanding of prioritisation of patients at ward level. To provide and ensure the Bedded Services team deliver a patient focused pharmacy service to all patients in Community Hospitals ensuring medicines reconciliation, full clinical validation of prescriptions is present to improve medicines related outcomes for high risk patients. To ensure the safe and cost effective use of medicines is prescribed in line with local policies and national guidance ensuring medicines are optimised and risks to patients are minimized eg NICE, NHSE, PHE To develop, support and implement efficient medicines management initiatives to reduce drug waste and drug spend and to support patient flow and facilitate timely discharges To ensure the Bedded Services team participate in ward rounds and MDTs where appropriate to ensure a multidisciplinary and integrated approach to medicines management.
To utilise clinical tools to proactively identify patients for medicines optimisation and to ensure the Bedded Services team undertake comprehensive Structured Medication Reviews and provide counselling to patients especially around chronic disease management To support an integrated approach by developing and maintaining excellent working relationships with multidisciplinary teams within CLCH and local organisations (ICSs, PCNs, GPs, Acute Hospitals, Care Homes, Community Pharmacies) to ensure delivery of optimal and seamless patient care by providing clear and effective communication of patients pharmaceutical needs in a timely manner with other health and social care professionals To consider a range of practical solutions to enable patients to maintain their independence to self-administer their medication where possible and improve adherence To support the implementation of the Medicines Management Strategy in line with national, regional and local policy and priorities including the implementation of Carter 2 recommendations and the NHS 10 year plan To undertake and attend Bedded Services team meetings on a regular basis To lead and support junior staff in undertaking projects and service developments to deliver the required aims and objectives To deliver training sessions to relevant staff groups and/or patients To co-ordinate and participate in collecting and recording appropriate quantifiable data/activity and intervention data to monitor key performance indicators to identify areas for improvement and development To support devising, facilitating, undertaking and evaluating audits relevant to the Community Hospitals and present to the appropriate Trust committees to ensure governance and assurances are provided To support any Quality Improvement projects To participate in ADR and Datix reporting, advising on incidents and to implement risk reduction initiatives at ward level To have an active and regular role in the provision of a clinical pharmacy service to the Community Hospitals and to provide cover in the absence of the Community Hospital pharmacists To participate in the Oncall rota and provide clinical advice out of hours to Community Hospitals Please refer to the attached Job Description for full list of responsibilities
