clinical pharmacist Shrewsbury, England
Job description
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES Clinical service delivery Deliver a high quality, patient-centred clinical pharmacist service to inpatient wards within MPFT. Ensure patients receive seamless pharmaceutical care through transitions of MPFT care. Visit allocated wards and community team bases to regularly review medicines cards and professionally check prescriptions, thereby ensuring compliance with UK and European medicines legislation, SPCs, national guidance, MPFT policies, procedures, formulary and guidelines. Provide specialist advice and information about medicines and their use to medical, nursing and other healthcare professionals, thereby contributing to their safe, effective and economical use.
Provide pharmaceutical input at multi-disciplinary team meetings, rapid review meetings and community team meetings where necessary undertaking patient medication histories and devising pharmaceutical care plans. Provide specialist advice and information about medicines and their use to patients, carers and the public. Conduct regular 1:1 consultations about medicines with patients and carers. Promote the concept of shared decision making and patient choice at all times.
Ensure the follow up and accurate completion of technician-led medicines reconciliation in a timely manner following admission to hospital in line with the MPFT policy for Medicines Reconciliation. *We reserve the right to close this vacancy early*
