Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustAre you a highly experienced clinical pharmacist looking for a new and unique way to develop your clinical specialism, whilst playing a pivotal role in the delivery of transformational change across 3 acute trusts in a provider collaborative?
If so, we have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated pharmacist, with an interest in Gastroenterology, to join our Pharmacy Team at Great Western Hospital on a 12-month fixed-term basis as an 8a Advanced Pharmacist (Gastroenterology).
You will initially focus on working across BSW Acute Healthcare Alliance to deliver some key specialty-specific biosimilar switch savings, but will also work towards establishing the role of a Gastroenterology Specialist Pharmacist within the Gastroenterology team at Great Western Hospital, including non-medical prescribing in outpatient/day hospital settings and supporting medicines optimisation and medicines effectiveness in both inpatient and outpatient services.
By demonstrating the value of this post to both our Trust and the wider BSW Acute Healthcare Alliance at the end of its fixed-term, you will play a key role in influencing our future service developments and potentially the establishment of a similar permanent post.
Main Duties of the JobAct as an advanced Pharmacy practitioner for gastroenterology, to plan care and identify areas of concern related to medicine use within this specialty.Be an Independent Prescriber (IP) and continue to develop the role of pharmacist independent prescriber within the Trust.Provide a specialist clinical pharmacy service to patients in gastroenterology wards and outpatient areas in line with clinical pharmacy standards and objectives.Clinically check all prescriptions before dispensing and refer to the prescriber any unusual doses, potential drug interactions or incompatibilities for confirmation or revision before authorising dispensing.Assist in clinical decision making to ensure patient safety and medication effectiveness through the medicines optimisation agenda.Discuss with patients any issues about their medication, and liaise with other health care professionals in Primary and Secondary Care as appropriate.Review results of external audit related to patient care and develop action plans as necessary.Fulfil the role of Responsible Pharmacist in the dispensary when registerable activities are taking place, when required as part of the rota or out of hours, as defined in the relevant Trust guidance document.Job ResponsibilitiesWork in collaboration with system-wide colleagues to ensure best medicines value for gastroenterology.Lead and develop the clinical pharmacy service to gastroenterology specialty within the Trust, including setting and monitoring quality standards for clinical pharmacy services.Introduce, maintain and develop a team and specialty-based model for clinical pharmacy service provision.Act as the point of liaison for the specialty and lead on pharmacy-related aspects of the development of services, medicines introduction, horizon scanning, and specialist information provision.Regularly meet with the Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager and Medicines Effectiveness team to develop a strategic plan for clinical pharmacy services.Provide the Pharmacy Clinical Services Manager and Medicines effectiveness lead with details of output, performance and activity of the clinical pharmacy service within the gastroenterology specialty at specified time intervals in a format agreed by the Pharmacy leadership team.Actively participate in trust-wide medicines assurance, governance and specialty meetings to promote the safe effective use of medicines and the role of Pharmacy in medicines optimisation.Prepare business cases to support clinical Pharmacy service developments within the specialty.Collaborate in the development of Integrated Care Pathways, clinical guidelines, Standard Operating Procedures, Patient Group Directions, and any other required policies within the specialty and Pharmacy department.Support the investigation of medication-related safety incidents and formulation/delivery of action plans across the Trust to address problems identified where appropriate.Person SpecificationQualificationsM Pharm Degree or equivalent / General Pharmaceutical Council (GPhC) registrationPostgraduate diploma (Diploma or MSc) in clinical pharmacy, community pharmacy or similarKeeping professionally up to date including CPDNon-Medical Prescribing QualificationMember of Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS)ExperienceHighly experienced as a qualified pharmacistExperience working across departmental and organizational boundariesKnowledge of financial systems and structuresExperience in GastroenterologyPrevious experience as a specialist pharmacistExperience of service developmentSkillsGood communication, verbal and written, e.g., SOPsPresentation skills - teaching and report writingUse of financial systems to generate reportsGood clinical knowledge backed up by extensive ward-based experienceAble to prioritize workload and delegate and manage time effectivelyUse of databases to collate informationDisclosure and Barring Service CheckThis 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.
Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£53,755 to £60,504 a year pro rata
ContractFixed term
Duration12 months
Working PatternFull-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
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